Gary Paul Nabhan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 480218 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gary Paul Nabhan |
| PRENOMES | Gary Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Nabhan |
| ASSINATURA | NABHAN G P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Yeast Communities and Traditional Knowledge in Fermented Cactus Fruit Beverages
Fermented beverages made from cactus fruits hold deep historical, cultural, and nutritional significance in arid and semi-arid regions of Mexico and the United States. Despite their longstanding role in local diets and food systems, these beverages remain understudied in ethnobiological research. One example is colonche, a traditional beverage made by open fermentation of prickly pear fruits, particularly Opuntia streptacantha , in the Central Me…
The dawn of ethnomicrobiology
BACKGROUND: Ethnobiologists commonly analyze local knowledge systems related to plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems. However, microbes (bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, and other organisms), often considered invisible in their interactions with humans, are often neglected. Microorganisms were the earliest life forms on Earth, and humans have interacted with them throughout history. Over time, humans have accumulated ecological knowledge about…
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Health Benefits of the Diverse Volatile Oils in Native Plants of Ancient Ironwood-Giant Cactus Forests of the Sonoran Desert
We document the species richness and volatile oil diversity in Sonoran Desert plants found in the Arizona Uplands subdivision of this binational USA/Mexico region. Using floristics, we determined that more than 60 species of 178 native plants in the ancient ironwood-giant cactus forests emit fragrant biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), especially with the onset of summer monsoons. From these desert species, more than 115 volatile oils ha…
Hands-On Ecological Restoration as a Nature-Based Health Intervention
There is growing concern that lack of access to natural habitats—especially ones with diverse soil microbiota and vegetation—exacerbates individual human and community health problems. Accordingly, practitioners concerned with both human and ecological health have proposed a number of nature-based interventions to improve human health. Two of many promising advances are the Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis (MRH) and the Psycho-Evolutionary Restora…
Crops from U.S. food supply chains will never look nor taste the same again
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice…
Agroecosystem Diversity
Increases in human population are associated with general decreases in the number of subsistence species including loss of agricultural diversity. Large energy and fresh water inputs are needed to simulate tropical and temperate agroecosystems needed by industrial agriculture in dry lands. Pre-contact subsistence patterns in the Sonoran Desert region consisted of agriculture combined with gathering and hunting in the better watered areas and hunt…
Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands
Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018
The Desert Smells Like Rain
Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband sca…
Borders Out of Register
This paper addresses how food systems and transboundary food supply chains are mediated and shaped by (cross‐) cultural and geopolitical borders that function as selective filters. We focus on the ways in which the political boundary in a formerly cohesive foodshed generates “edge effects” that affect (1) food safety, and (2) food waste, particularly in desert communities adjacent to the U.S.–Mexico border. We hypothesize that as these various bo…
Oases of the Baja California peninsula as sacred spaces of agrobiodiversity persistence
Food Security, Biodiversity and Human Health
Ever since Mark Nathan Cohen’s (1976) treatise, The Food Crisis in Prehistory, ethnobiological explorations of historic shifts in subsistence strategies, agroeconomic structures and uses of biodiversity have explicitly dealt with the issue of cultural responses to food insecurity and declining nutrition health. More recently, sensationalistic and rather simplistic treatments of these topics by the likes of Jared Diamond (2005) have attempted to p…
Mission and Modern Citrus Species Diversity of Baja California Peninsula Oases
Agrobiodiversity in an Oasis Archipelago
Oases on Mexico's Baja California peninsula harbor farms and gardens which largely feature crops first introduced by Jesuit missionaries (1697–1768). These spring-fed agricultural landscapes are currently managed as diverse agroecosystems with original heritage food crop species as well as newer crop and livestock introductions. These isolated landscapes are relict sanctuaries for unique desert crop varieties and farming systems that may be impor…
Ethnobiology for A Diverse World
The prefix ethno (‘other’) might be considered one of the unfortunate flaws associated with the origins of our (inter-)discipline that has pervasively shaped the history of ethnobiology. Since the late 19th century, when John William Harshberger (1896) first coined the term ‘‘ethnobotany,’’ the prevailing strategy of most fieldworkers trained in ethnobiology has been to go and bear witness to some other culture’s knowledge of plants and animals. …
The Forgotten Pollinators
Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits that make up nearly eighty percent of the human diet would not exist.In Forgotten Pollinators, Stephen L. Buchmann, one of the world's leading authorities on bees and pollination, and Gary Paul Nabhan, award-winning writer and renowned crop ecologist, explore the vital but little-appreciated relationship between plants and the animals they depend on for …
Reinventing Nature?
Cultural Parallax in Viewing North American Habitats
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Endangered Species Recovery
Perhaps the most often-cited quote in biological conservation circles is this ominous warning from E. O. Wilson (1990:182): ‘‘The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.’’ If there is a cultural corollary to Wilson’s principle, it is that the loss of and disregard for t…
Ethnobiology for A Diverse World Defining New Disciplinary Trajectories
That which we assume to be a distinct scholarly discipline today may not be so tomorrow; boundaries shift, and territories become redefined in academia just as they do in geopolitics. And so, it would not be surprising to see within just a few decades the methodological pretexts of ethnobiological inquiries once again overhauled as they have been several times already. We anticipate and in fact welcome the re-delineation of the boundaries of this…
Ethnobiology for a Diverse World Ethnobiology Emerging from a Time of Crisis
Last Water on the Devil's Highway
Cultures of Habitat
Prologue: Cultures of Habitat Finding Ourselves in the Far Outside Pledging Allegiance to All Sorts of Diversity Missing the Boat: Why Cultural Diversity Didnt Make It onto the Ark Sierra Madre Upshot: Ecological and Agricultural Health Children in Touch, Creatures in Story Making Places Close to Home Where the Soul Can Fly Growing Up Othered: An Arab-American Childhood Behind the Zipper: Discovering the Diversity around Us Finding the Wild Threa…
Native crop diversity in Aridoamerica
Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands
Ethnobiology for a Diverse World
Enduring Seeds
Papago indian desert agriculture and water control in the sonoran desert, 1697–1934
Ak-ciñ ‘arroyo mouth’ and the environmental setting of the Papago Indian fields in the Sonoran Desert
Perspectives in Ethnobiology
Teparies in southwestern North America
Panicum sonorum in Sonoran Desert agriculture
Agrobiodiversity Change in a Saharan Desert Oasis, 1919–2006
Legumes in the Papago-Pima Indian Diet and Ecological Niche
The Papago and River Pima diets have historically been based on legumes rather than on grains or meats. Their selection of certain legume foods over other potential staples characterizes their ecological niches. The range of bean pod and seed foods utilized by the Northern Pimans are discussed in terms of folk taxonomy, protein content, preparation, and general importance. Their most important wild food, mesquite pods, and a key cultivated food, …
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Endangered Species Recovery
Perhaps the most often-cited quote in biological conservation circles is this ominous warning from E. O. Wilson (1990:182): ‘‘The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.’’ If there is a cultural corollary to Wilson’s principle, it is that the loss of and disregard for t…
Of Earth and Little Rain
Wild beans of the greater southwest
Oases of the Baja California peninsula as sacred spaces of agrobiodiversity persistence
Plant Domestication and Folk-Biological Change
Ethnologists have the opportunity to document the dynamics of domestication, particularly the cognitive aspects of that process, which archeologists are unable to reconstruct. In this article we show how the recent intensification of cultivation, accompanied by genetic alteration, of a basketry fiber plant, Proboscidea parviflora subspecies parviflora, among the O'odham (Pima) has been accompanied by shifts in the structure of O'odham folk taxono…
The dawn of ethnomicrobiology
BACKGROUND: Ethnobiologists commonly analyze local knowledge systems related to plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems. However, microbes (bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, and other organisms), often considered invisible in their interactions with humans, are often neglected. Microorganisms were the earliest life forms on Earth, and humans have interacted with them throughout history. Over time, humans have accumulated ecological knowledge about…
Mission and Modern Citrus Species Diversity of Baja California Peninsula Oases
Crops from U.S. food supply chains will never look nor taste the same again
Borders Out of Register
This paper addresses how food systems and transboundary food supply chains are mediated and shaped by (cross‐) cultural and geopolitical borders that function as selective filters. We focus on the ways in which the political boundary in a formerly cohesive foodshed generates “edge effects” that affect (1) food safety, and (2) food waste, particularly in desert communities adjacent to the U.S.–Mexico border. We hypothesize that as these various bo…
Native American crop diversity, genetic resource conservation, and the policy of neglect
Living fencerows of the Rio San Miguel, Sonora, Mexico
Viable Seeds from Prehistoric Caches? Archaeobotanical Remains in Southwestern Folklore
A rich oral history exists regarding viable seeds reported to have been taken from prehistoric cultural deposits in the Southwest. In some cases, progeny of these reputed prehistoric seed have been widely dispersed by pot hunters, scientists, and curious gardens. At least four New World domesticates have been implicated as germinative survivors from prehistoric caches: Canavalia ensiformis L., Phaseolus coccineus L., P. vulgaris L., and Zea mavs …
Teparies in southwestern North America
Legumes in the Papago-Pima Indian Diet and Ecological Niche
The Papago and River Pima diets have historically been based on legumes rather than on grains or meats. Their selection of certain legume foods over other potential staples characterizes their ecological niches. The range of bean pod and seed foods utilized by the Northern Pimans are discussed in terms of folk taxonomy, protein content, preparation, and general importance. Their most important wild food, mesquite pods, and a key cultivated food, …
Papago Indian floodwater fields and Tepary bean protein yields
Traditional Papago Indian floodwater farming today is a threatened agricultural ecosystem in Southwestern North America. Tepary beans, Phaseolus acutifolius var. latifolius, are used here as a nutritional indicator of this native system's efficacy. Teparies are a heat and drought adapted crop of the Papago, and historically one of their most important protein and mineral sources. Their mean protein contents and seed yields per plant tend to be hi…
Wild beans of the greater southwest
Panicum sonorum in Sonoran Desert agriculture
Of Earth and Little Rain
Gathering the Desert
To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life. Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the desert in search of plants forgotten by all but a handful of American Indians and Mexican Americans. In Gathering the readers will discover that the bounty of the desert is much more than meets the eye whether found …
Variation in composition of Hopi Indian beans
Dry Phaseolus beans grown on the Hopi Indian reservation by traditional agricultural techniques were collected and compared with beans utilized by the Hopis but grown off the reservation. Species included P. vulgaris, P. acutifolius var. latifolius, P. coccineus and P. lunatus. Ethnobotanical information, morphological and chemical data were obtained. Beans grown on the reservation were generally but not always found to be superior in protein con…
Native American crop diversity, genetic resource conservation, and the policy of neglect
Native crop diversity in Aridoamerica
Papago indian desert agriculture and water control in the sonoran desert, 1697–1934
Ak-ciñ ‘arroyo mouth’ and the environmental setting of the Papago Indian fields in the Sonoran Desert
Plant Domestication and Folk-Biological Change
Ethnologists have the opportunity to document the dynamics of domestication, particularly the cognitive aspects of that process, which archeologists are unable to reconstruct. In this article we show how the recent intensification of cultivation, accompanied by genetic alteration, of a basketry fiber plant, Proboscidea parviflora subspecies parviflora, among the O'odham (Pima) has been accompanied by shifts in the structure of O'odham folk taxono…
Pre-hispanic occupance in the valley of Sonora, Mexico
Enduring Seeds
Enduring Seeds
Journal Article Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation Get access Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. By Nabhan Gary Paul. (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. xxiii + 225 pp. Bibliography, index. $18.95.) David Rich Lewis David Rich Lewis Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, …
Faith in a Seed
Before the Wilderness
Composition of sonoran desert foods used by Tohono O'Odham and Pima Indians
Fifty‐eight raw food samples were analyzed for proximate, acid detergent fiber (ADF) and dietary (soluble & insoluble) fiber and mineral composition. Food samples were from both home gardens and samples collected from desert plants. The two major sources were bean and corn samples. Bean samples averaged 22.72% (19.66% to 25.6%) protein and 7.16% ADF. Corn samples ranged from 9.2% to 12.2% protein and cactus pads ranged from 0.5% to 0.9% protein a…
Agrobiodiversity Change in a Saharan Desert Oasis, 1919–2006
Ethnoecology
Ethnobiology for a Diverse World
Perspectives in Ethnobiology
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