Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Indigenous knowledges, birds that have 'spoken' and science / Tidemann, Sonia; Chirgwin, Sharon; Sinclair, Ross
  • Ethno-ornithology and biological conservation / Bonta, Mark
  • The broader significance of ethno-ornithology / Gosler, Andrew. Part II. Birds: hunting and products
  • The Maori and the Huia / Houston, David C.
  • The impact of red feather currency on the population of the Scarlet Honeyeater on Santa Cruz / Houston, David C.
  • Entrapment of Wetland birds: local customs and methods of hunting in Krangkeng, Indramayu, Central Java / Purnama, Surya; Indrawan, Mochamad
  • Wildlife hunting and bird trade in Northern Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia / Pangau-Adam, Margaretha; Noske, Richard. Part III.
  • Birds and knowledge
  • Transmutation of human knowledge about birds in 16th century Honduras / Bonta, Marc
  • Sound, sight, stories and science: avoiding pitfalls in ethno-ornithological research, with examples from Kenya / Ng'weno, Fleur
  • What the locals know: comparing traditional and scientific knowledge of Megapodes in Melanesia / Sinclair, J. Ross; Tuke, Lorima; Opiang, Muse. Part IV. Birds: story and language
  • Birds and nature in the stepwells of Gujarat, Western India / Mehta Bhat, Purnima
  • Aboriginal stories: the riches and colour of Australian birds / Tibemann, Sonia; Whiteside, Tim
  • Tlingit birds: an annotated list with a statistical comparative analysis / Hunn, Eugene S.; Thorton, Thomas F.
  • Raven = Heron in Mayan-language prehistory: an ethno-ornithological/linguistic study / Brown, Cecil H.
  • What's in a bird name: relationships among ethno-ornithological terms in Nage and other Malayo-Polynesian languages / Forth, Gregory. Part V. Birds and conservation
  • An alternate reality: Maori spiritual guardianship of New Zealand's native birds / Lyver, Philip O'B; Moller, Henrik
  • Everyone loves birds: using indigenous knowledge of birds to facilitate conservation in New Guinea / Thomas, William H.
  • Birds, people and conservation in Kenya / Muiruri, Mercy Njeri; Maundu, Patrick
  • Bird messengers for all seasons: landscapes of knowledge among the BriBri of Costa Rica / Sault, Nicole
  • The bull of the bog: bittern conservation practice in a Western bio-cultural setting / Barua, Maan; Jepson, Paul
  • Towards an Indonesian bird conservation ethos: reflections from a study of bird-keeping in the cites of Java and Bali / Jepson, Paul.