J Rashford
Biographic Data
| ID | 21348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Rashford |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rashford |
| SIGNATURE | RASHFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8296-4019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Safeguarding Indigenous and Local Knowledge in the Digital Age
Recent legal challenges surrounding the use of copyrighted materials in training artificial intelligence (AI) systems have underscored the importance of data provenance, consent, and compensation. However, these debates largely overlook Indigenous and local knowledge systems, which are increasingly digitized and incorporated into AI training datasets without equivalent safeguards. Drawing on the recent Anthropic lawsuit, we examine ethical risks …
A Historically Contextualized Account of the Baobab Trees (Adansonia digitata L.) of Tobago
Ethnobiology Phase VI
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…
The Use of Baobab Leaves (Adansonia digitata L.) for Food in Africa
The Uses of the Baobab Flower (Adansonia digitata L)
In the now extensive literature on the African baobab, the use of the flower is often overlooked or described as minimal. This paper presents a synthesis of the uses of the baobab flower that incorporates the results of my own fieldwork on the introduction and cultural significance of the baobab in Florida, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Fieldwork conducted over the past 30 years has involved locating, measuring, and photographing baobabs; observatio…
Jamaican Food
Review of Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. B. W. Higman. 2008. University of West Indies Press, Jamaica. Pp. 580. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN (cloth) 9789766402051
Potential Big Men, Fig Trees and Tourist Attractions in Barbados
In a March 28, 2007, article in the Nation, one of the two main newspapers of Barbados, we learn that the landmark bearded fig tree (Ficus citrifolia) of Paradise Beach, in the parish of St. Michael, was killed
Those that do not smile will kill me
Pathways of Power
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World. Eric R. Wolf. Berkeley, CA. and London, UK: University of California Press, 2000. xx. 463 pp. (Paper US$24.95
The real taste of Jamaica
The past and present uses of bamboo in Jamaica
A Review of Culture and the Evolutionary Process
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A Review of Culture and the Evolutionary Process
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The past and present uses of bamboo in Jamaica
The real taste of Jamaica
Those that do not smile will kill me
Pathways of Power
Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World. Eric R. Wolf. Berkeley, CA. and London, UK: University of California Press, 2000. xx. 463 pp. (Paper US$24.95
Potential Big Men, Fig Trees and Tourist Attractions in Barbados
In a March 28, 2007, article in the Nation, one of the two main newspapers of Barbados, we learn that the landmark bearded fig tree (Ficus citrifolia) of Paradise Beach, in the parish of St. Michael, was killed
Jamaican Food
Review of Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. B. W. Higman. 2008. University of West Indies Press, Jamaica. Pp. 580. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN (cloth) 9789766402051
The Uses of the Baobab Flower (Adansonia digitata L)
In the now extensive literature on the African baobab, the use of the flower is often overlooked or described as minimal. This paper presents a synthesis of the uses of the baobab flower that incorporates the results of my own fieldwork on the introduction and cultural significance of the baobab in Florida, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Fieldwork conducted over the past 30 years has involved locating, measuring, and photographing baobabs; observatio…
The Use of Baobab Leaves (Adansonia digitata L.) for Food in Africa
Ethnobiology Phase VI
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…
A Historically Contextualized Account of the Baobab Trees (Adansonia digitata L.) of Tobago
Safeguarding Indigenous and Local Knowledge in the Digital Age
Recent legal challenges surrounding the use of copyrighted materials in training artificial intelligence (AI) systems have underscored the importance of data provenance, consent, and compensation. However, these debates largely overlook Indigenous and local knowledge systems, which are increasingly digitized and incorporated into AI training datasets without equivalent safeguards. Drawing on the recent Anthropic lawsuit, we examine ethical risks …
Biology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Botany (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Adansonia digitata (3 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (3 works)