M B Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 25220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M B Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M B |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9311-9494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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Homegarden Variation and Medicinal Plant Sharing among the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Guatemala
Cymbopogon winterianus, Neurolaena lobata, and Ruta chalepensis—Recurring Herbal Remedies in Guatemalan Maya Q’eqchi’ Homegardens
We report on the top three ethnopharmacological herbs growing among a lowland Guatemalan Q’eqchi’ community’s homegardens. In a gardening culture characterized by pragmatic species distribution and sharing, these few herbaceous species recur in multiple households’ dooryard gardens. Our aim in reporting on the most predominant ethnobotanical herbs gardened in a Maya Q’eqchi’ village’s dooryards is to valorize the capacities of local pharmacologic…
Dog-Human Coevolution: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Multiple Hypotheses
Dogs' relationship with humans is pervasive and familiar, and human-dog social bonds serve multiple functions. Yet the breadth and depth of this variation is poorly understood. This study considers our coevolutionary relationship in cross-cultural context as a self-organizing system of mutual-attraction between complementary species. We analyzed Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) texts to develop three scales of dog-human relationships: dogs' util…
Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies
Family Poultry Systems on the Southern Pacific Coast of Guatemala: Gender, Livelihoods, and Food Security
Small-scale poultry rearing provides a livelihood for many households around the globe and is a means for women to contribute to household income while raising children. We present an ethnozoological and ethnographic case study of smallholder Guatemalan fisher-farmers of two villages in which ethnic Ladino residents are increasingly reliant on raising birds. Data comes from direct and participant observation of all families in both villages, as w…
Children's Ethnobiological Notions of Contamination and Contagions among Maasai Agro-Pastoralists of Northern Tanzania
Humans and other living organisms harbor disease-causing pathogenic microorganisms. These microorganisms are often transmitted through physical contact with contaminated objects, such as food, water, or other people. While some theoretical and empirical research examines the ontogeny of contamination and contagion beliefs, cross-cultural research on this topic is limited. To help remedy this paucity of data, we conducted an ethnobiological study …
Medicinal foods and beverages among Maasai agro-pastoralists in northern Tanzania
Medical pluralism and livestock health: Ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
Variation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the cap…
Children’s Acquisition of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Subsistence horticulturalists learn considerable local ecological knowledge by early adulthood. We investigate the relationship between children's family environments and learning of their plant environment. In a rural village in Dominica, West Indies, children of ages four through 17 (N 5 51) participated in a "plant trail" along a route containing 50 core local plants marked for identification. Plants in question resulted from village adults' f…
Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia
Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social shocks on Sidama impulsivity. We argue that impulsivity …
Ethnobiology in One Health
The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health’s multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life sci…
Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock
We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household production among Maasai people in Simanjiro, Tanzania to assess local “proximate currencies” relevant for “cultural success.” Data from mixed methods ethnographic research include qualitative interviews since 2012, observation of 85 livestock market sales in 2013 and 2015, and 37 short key informant interviews in 20…
Vulnerability and Resilience of Sidama Enset and Maize Farms in Southwestern Ethiopia
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is the traditional staple food of Sidama people who live in Rift Valley lowlands to highlands in southwest Ethiopia. Enset is drought resistant, but it matures slowly, requires substantial manure inputs from cattle, and intensive processing. Maize, introduced to Sidamaland in the mid-twentieth century, is common in midlands and lowlands. Maize matures rapidly and provides more kcal/kg than enset, but it is prone to fail…
Ethnomedicine of menstruation in rural Dominica, West Indies
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset complex, the highland Sidama are among the most wholly reliant on enset and maintain more enset varieties in their gardens than other groups. Sidama agro-pastoral systems revolve around human-enset-cattle interaction: Sidama eat…
Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome
Background"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions (fear, panic, anguish or worry) causes a cold humoral stat…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies II
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds: Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
Human pair-bonds may have multiple evolved functions. One long-standing hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds evolved for male provisioning. Alternatively pair-bonds may occur as a response to male mating competition when benefits of staying with a current mate outweigh costs of seeking new mates. A third hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds function to protect against infanticide by aggressive males. Tests of these hypotheses used data from the Sta…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies
Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted by individuals. All six predictors are associated wi…
Parenting and Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression, and Witchcraft
Parenting behavior may respond flexibly to environmental risk to help prepare children for the environment they can expect to face as adults. In hazardous environments where child outcomes are unpredictable, unresponsive parenting could be adaptive. Child development associated with parenting practices, in turn, may influence cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression (which we call the "risk-response model"). We test these propositio…
Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethobotany
In freelists, informants create an inventory of all the items they know within a given category. Freelists reveal cultural salience and variation in individuals' topical knowledge. The ease and accuracy of freelist interviewing makes it ideal for collecting data on local knowledge from relatively large samples. This method, however, does not work well with broad topical areas: People tend to omit some items and cluster responses as they unpack me…
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethobotany
In freelists, informants create an inventory of all the items they know within a given category. Freelists reveal cultural salience and variation in individuals' topical knowledge. The ease and accuracy of freelist interviewing makes it ideal for collecting data on local knowledge from relatively large samples. This method, however, does not work well with broad topical areas: People tend to omit some items and cluster responses as they unpack me…
Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted by individuals. All six predictors are associated wi…
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Parenting and Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression, and Witchcraft
Parenting behavior may respond flexibly to environmental risk to help prepare children for the environment they can expect to face as adults. In hazardous environments where child outcomes are unpredictable, unresponsive parenting could be adaptive. Child development associated with parenting practices, in turn, may influence cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression (which we call the "risk-response model"). We test these propositio…
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds: Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
Human pair-bonds may have multiple evolved functions. One long-standing hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds evolved for male provisioning. Alternatively pair-bonds may occur as a response to male mating competition when benefits of staying with a current mate outweigh costs of seeking new mates. A third hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds function to protect against infanticide by aggressive males. Tests of these hypotheses used data from the Sta…
Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome
Background"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions (fear, panic, anguish or worry) causes a cold humoral stat…
Medical pluralism and livestock health: Ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
Variation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the cap…
Ethnobiology in One Health
The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health’s multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life sci…
Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia
Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social shocks on Sidama impulsivity. We argue that impulsivity …
Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies
Homegarden Variation and Medicinal Plant Sharing among the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Guatemala
Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock
We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household production among Maasai people in Simanjiro, Tanzania to assess local “proximate currencies” relevant for “cultural success.” Data from mixed methods ethnographic research include qualitative interviews since 2012, observation of 85 livestock market sales in 2013 and 2015, and 37 short key informant interviews in 20…
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset complex, the highland Sidama are among the most wholly reliant on enset and maintain more enset varieties in their gardens than other groups. Sidama agro-pastoral systems revolve around human-enset-cattle interaction: Sidama eat…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies II
Ethnophysiology and herbal treatments of intestinal worms in Dominica, West Indies
Parental investment and age at weaning in a Caribbean village
Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethobotany
In freelists, informants create an inventory of all the items they know within a given category. Freelists reveal cultural salience and variation in individuals' topical knowledge. The ease and accuracy of freelist interviewing makes it ideal for collecting data on local knowledge from relatively large samples. This method, however, does not work well with broad topical areas: People tend to omit some items and cluster responses as they unpack me…
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds: Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
Human pair-bonds may have multiple evolved functions. One long-standing hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds evolved for male provisioning. Alternatively pair-bonds may occur as a response to male mating competition when benefits of staying with a current mate outweigh costs of seeking new mates. A third hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds function to protect against infanticide by aggressive males. Tests of these hypotheses used data from the Sta…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies
Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted by individuals. All six predictors are associated wi…
Parenting and Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression, and Witchcraft
Parenting behavior may respond flexibly to environmental risk to help prepare children for the environment they can expect to face as adults. In hazardous environments where child outcomes are unpredictable, unresponsive parenting could be adaptive. Child development associated with parenting practices, in turn, may influence cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression (which we call the "risk-response model"). We test these propositio…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies II
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome
Background"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions (fear, panic, anguish or worry) causes a cold humoral stat…
Ethnomedicine of menstruation in rural Dominica, West Indies
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset complex, the highland Sidama are among the most wholly reliant on enset and maintain more enset varieties in their gardens than other groups. Sidama agro-pastoral systems revolve around human-enset-cattle interaction: Sidama eat…
Vulnerability and Resilience of Sidama Enset and Maize Farms in Southwestern Ethiopia
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is the traditional staple food of Sidama people who live in Rift Valley lowlands to highlands in southwest Ethiopia. Enset is drought resistant, but it matures slowly, requires substantial manure inputs from cattle, and intensive processing. Maize, introduced to Sidamaland in the mid-twentieth century, is common in midlands and lowlands. Maize matures rapidly and provides more kcal/kg than enset, but it is prone to fail…
Children’s Acquisition of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Subsistence horticulturalists learn considerable local ecological knowledge by early adulthood. We investigate the relationship between children's family environments and learning of their plant environment. In a rural village in Dominica, West Indies, children of ages four through 17 (N 5 51) participated in a "plant trail" along a route containing 50 core local plants marked for identification. Plants in question resulted from village adults' f…
Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia
Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social shocks on Sidama impulsivity. We argue that impulsivity …
Ethnobiology in One Health
The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health’s multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life sci…
Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock
We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household production among Maasai people in Simanjiro, Tanzania to assess local “proximate currencies” relevant for “cultural success.” Data from mixed methods ethnographic research include qualitative interviews since 2012, observation of 85 livestock market sales in 2013 and 2015, and 37 short key informant interviews in 20…
Medical pluralism and livestock health: Ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
Variation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the cap…
Children's Ethnobiological Notions of Contamination and Contagions among Maasai Agro-Pastoralists of Northern Tanzania
Humans and other living organisms harbor disease-causing pathogenic microorganisms. These microorganisms are often transmitted through physical contact with contaminated objects, such as food, water, or other people. While some theoretical and empirical research examines the ontogeny of contamination and contagion beliefs, cross-cultural research on this topic is limited. To help remedy this paucity of data, we conducted an ethnobiological study …
Medicinal foods and beverages among Maasai agro-pastoralists in northern Tanzania
Family Poultry Systems on the Southern Pacific Coast of Guatemala: Gender, Livelihoods, and Food Security
Small-scale poultry rearing provides a livelihood for many households around the globe and is a means for women to contribute to household income while raising children. We present an ethnozoological and ethnographic case study of smallholder Guatemalan fisher-farmers of two villages in which ethnic Ladino residents are increasingly reliant on raising birds. Data comes from direct and participant observation of all families in both villages, as w…
Dog-Human Coevolution: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Multiple Hypotheses
Dogs' relationship with humans is pervasive and familiar, and human-dog social bonds serve multiple functions. Yet the breadth and depth of this variation is poorly understood. This study considers our coevolutionary relationship in cross-cultural context as a self-organizing system of mutual-attraction between complementary species. We analyzed Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) texts to develop three scales of dog-human relationships: dogs' util…
Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies
Homegarden Variation and Medicinal Plant Sharing among the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Guatemala
Biology (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (10 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Medicinal plants (7 works) · Subsistence agriculture (7 works)