Ethnobiology Lives! Theory, Collaboration, and Possibilities for the Study of Folk Biologies

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David G. Casagrande is a postdoctoral research associate with the Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project at the Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University. His current research interests include human cognition and environmental perception, information ecology of human ecosystems, urban ecology, and human adaptation. He currently conducts research in Chiapas, Mexico and metropolitan Phoenix. Recent publications include: “Conceptions of primary forest in a Tzeltal Maya community: Implications for conservation,” Human Organization (63(2); 189–202, 2004); “Remarkable properties of human ecosystems” (with J. R. Stepp, E. C. Jones, M. Pavao-Zuckerman, and R. K. Zarger), Conservation Ecology (7(3); 11, 2003); “Human taste and cognition in Tzeltal Maya medicinal plant use,”Journal of Ecological Anthropology (4; 57–69, 2000); and “Information as verb: Re-conceptualizing information for cognitive and ecological models,”Journal of Ecological Anthropology (3; 4–13, 1999).