Coastal Heritage and Cultural Resilience

This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama. Center stage in this volume is the knowledge people acquire on coastal and marine ecosystems. Material and aesthetic benefits from interacting with the environment contribute to the ongoing building of coastal cultures. The contributors are particularly interested in how local knowledge -either recently generated or transmitted along generations- interfaces with science, conservation, policy and artistic expression. Their observations exhibit a wide array of outcomes ranging from resource and human exploitation to the magnification of cultural resilience and coastal heritage. The interdisciplinary nature of ethnobiology allows the chapter authors to have a broad range of freedom when examining their subject matter. They build a multifaceted understanding of coastal heritage  through the different lenses offered by the humanities, social sciences, oceanography, fisheries and conservation science and, not surprisingly, the arts. Coastal Heritage and Cultural Resilience establishes an intimate bond between coastal communities and the audience in a time when resilience of coastal life needs to be celebrated and fortified.

• Coastal change
• Pacific Coast
• Coastal ecology
• Ethnoecology
• Ethnobiology
• Invisible landscapes
• Community resilience
• Oyster farming
• Fishing communities
• Seri culture
• Pearl industry
• Fisheries
• Marine ethnobiology
• Environmental anthropology
• coastal sciences
• Fish and Wildlife Biology

“Most comprehensive is a concise, thorough ethnographic documentation of the Seri Indigenous people of Sonora; this is a major contribution. … This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in adaptation, resilience, and management on the land-water interface.” (E. N. Anderson, Choice, Vol. 56 (10), June, 2019)

• School of Language, Culture, and Society, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

  Lisa L. Price

• CoLaboratorio de Oceanografía Social, Centro de Estudios en Geografía Humana, El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C., La Piedad, Mexico

  Nemer E. Narchi

Lisa L. Price is a Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. She specializes in ethnobiology and ethnoecology. Her research interests are primarily at the interface of human culture, specifically gender, and the food environment, food ways and food security. She has conducted research throughout Asia and Africa and acted as a consultant for numerous international scientific and philanthropic organizations.

Nemer E. Narchi is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Human Geography Research at El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C. Initially trained as an oceanographer, he is now an anthropologist who has been working in ethnobiology and biocultural conservation for 18 years. Nemer Narchi is vice-president of the Mexican Ethnobiological Association (2018-2020) and co-founder of the Laboratories of Social Oceanography in El Colegio de Michoacán. He is also head of the Marine Research Group for Biocultural Heritage, part of the Mexican Network for Biocultural Heritage (Red Temática sobre Patrimonio Biocultural, CONACyT).

Dr. L.M.L. Price

Professor of Anthropology &

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon, 97331

U.S.A.

Dr. Nemer E. Narchi
Profesor-Investigador
Centro de Estudios en Geografía Humana
El Colegio de Michoacán
Cerro de Nahuatzen 85
La Piedad, Michoacán, México. 59370
Tel (352) 5256107 ext. 2416

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