My third project for Applied Ethnobotany is a research project about wild plants within Alaska’s food system. This blog post is an adaptation of my final paper for an introductory food systems class in the Prescott College Master’s in Sustainable Food Systems program, available here for feedback. Land Acknowledgement I …
The Ethnobotany Program was featured by UAF’s Anthropology Society. Dillon McIntire and Kevin Huo interviewed EBOT faculty Lisa Strecker for Episode 43 of Speaking of Anthropology. You can listen to the full recording on their website. Thanks to Dillon and Kevin for the opportunity to talk ethnobotany!
Meet the authors of – Fienup-Riordan, A., Rearden, A., Meade, M. and Jernigan, K., 2021. Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/the Entire Surface of the Land Is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska. University of Alaska Press. Friday, May 14, 6-7 pm Zoom link Meeting ID: 821 1865 1768 Passcode: …
EBOT students Shelby Braun, Pier Imbriano and Sundance Visser presented hands-on projects that they conducted as part of the Applied Ethnobotany classes at the One Health, One Future Conference organized by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research in Spring 2021. Watch a short video of the …
Lakota Elder Dr. Jerome Kills Small graciously agreed to join our final session of the Seminar in Ethnobotany. Jerome shared stories, his wisdom and a song related to plant protocol in ceremony, the importance of olfactory experience in rituals, plants used for incense and smoke, and other topics, such as …
From the Bethel public library: Save the date! We will get a flyer and Zoom link out next week. We have a fantastic author panel with Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, and Kevin Jernigan on May 14th at 6 pm on Zoom. The discussion will be about the new …
Interviewing a plant expert is one of the course assignments of Applied EBOT 250 and 251. The following interview was conducted by Sundance Visser during EBOT 251, Applied Ethnobotany Spring and is part of her own project on fermentation with berries. Bottles of mead from Sweetgale Meadworks, Homer, AK, Accessed …
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, Lisa Strecker and Rose Meier, all faculty working for the UAF Ethnobotany Program, have organized a panel at the 48th Alaska Anthropological Association’s annual meeting “Fostering a Culture of Equity Through the Removal of Boundaries” which was held virtually March 1-5, 2021. Panel Abstract Presenters and …
Cattails There are three species of cattails in the family Typhaceae growing in North America. Of these three species, only Typha latifolia L., or the broad-leaved cattail, is found in Alaska. Worldwide, cattails are an important resource in almost all of the communities where they grow, and there is an …
At the beginning of the year I was shopping in an antique store and found two pine needle baskets. They were beautiful so I took pictures for inspiration and was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to make my own as my first project for this class. Pine Needle Basket …
