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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: on the Interdependence of Biological and Cultural Diversity

Luisa Maffi

PART 1: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Interdisciplinary Framework

On the Meaning and Moral Imperative of Diversity

David Harmon

Biodiversity and the Loss of Lineages

Brent D. Mishler

Why Linguists Need Languages

Greville G. Corbett

On the Coevolution of Cultural, Linguistic, and Biological Diversity

Eric A. Smith

Prospects for the Persistence of ``Endemic'' Cultural Systems of Traditional Environmental Knowledge: a Zapotec Example

Eugene S. Hunn

Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity

Peter Muhlhausler

Cultural Perceptions of Ecological Interactions: an ``Endangered People's'' Contribution to the Conservation of Biological and Linguistic Diversity

Gary P. Nabhan

The Vanishing Landscape of the Peten Maya Lowlands: People, Plants, Animals, Places, Words, and Spirits

Scott Atran

Dimensions of Attrition in Language Death

Jane H. Hill

Acculturation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge Loss Among the Piaroa of Venezuela: Demonstration of a Quantitative Method for the Empirical Study of Traditional Ecological Knowledge Change

Stanford Zent

Measuring the Evolution and Devolution of Folk-Biological Knowledge

Phillip Wolff

Douglas L. Medin

Some Problems of Describing Linguistic and Ecological Knowledge

Andrew Pawley

Linguistic Diversity and Biodiversity: Some Implications for the Language Sciences

Jeffrey Wollock

PART 2: BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY PERSISTENCE AND LOSS

Case Studies

Biodiversity and Loss of Indigenous Languages and Knowledge in South America

Manuel Lizarralde

Aspects and Implications of Ecological Diversity in Forest Societies of the Brazilian Amazon

Katharine Milton

Environment, Culture, and Siriono Plant Names

William L. Balee

The Endangered Languages of Africa: A Case Study From Botswana

Herman M. Batibo

Threats to Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study From Eastern Indonesia

Margaret Florey

On the Value of Ecological Knowledge to the Kalam of Papua New Guinea: an Insider's View

Ian Saem Majnep with

Andrew Pawley

Wa Huya Ania Ama Vutti Yo`Oriwa --- the Wilderness World is Respected Greatly: Truth From the Yoeme Communities of the Sonoran Desert

Felipe S. Molina

Resource Management in Amazonia: Caboclo and Ribereno Traditions

Christine Padoch

Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

PART 3: PERPETUATING THE WORLD'S BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY

Agenda for Action

Biological and Cultural Diversity: the Inextricable, Linked by Language and Politics

Darrell A. Posey

Linguistic Human Rights in Education for Language Maintenance

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Language, Knowledge, and Indigenous Heritage Rights

Luisa Maffi

A Tape Documentation Project for Native Brazilian Languages

Denny Moore

The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity

D. Michael Warren

Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: Misguided Myths in the Maya Tropical Forest

James D. Nations

Biocultural Diversity and Local Power in Mexico: Challenging Globalization

Victor M. Toledo

Language, Ethnobotanical Knowledge, and Tropical Public Health

Thomas J. Carlson

Indigenous Peoples and the Uses and Abuses of Ecotourism

Ben G. Blount

Protectors, Prospectors, and Pirates of Biological Resources

Stephen B. Brush

PART 4: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE, AND A PLEA

Possibilities After Progress

Richard B. Norgaard

Silent no More: California Indians Reclaim their Culture --- and they Invite you to Listen

L. Frank Manriquez

Appendix 1. Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology (1998)

Appendix 2. Statement of Mission---Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity

Contributors

Index