1st Edition
The Cultural Value of Trees Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation
1. Introduction to Tree Folk Value: Meaning-full Trees, a Thriving Living World, Cultural Survival
I. The Americas and the Caribbean
2. Becoming tree, becoming memory: social-ecological fabrics in Pewen (Araucaria araucaria) landscapes of the southern Andes
José Tomás Ibarra, Antonia Barreau and Robert Petitpas et al.
3. White Pine: The Tree That Sparked Peace, Revolution, and Insurrection
Patricia Shanley
4. Pepperwood: Sustainably and Ethically Expanding Commercial Use of an Undervalued Tree and Cultural Keystone Species?
Frederica Bowcutt
5. Nyame’s Altar: A Cultural History of the ‘God tree’ in Jamaica
John Rashford
6. "Paddle with the Tide": Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Western Redcedar Coevolution
Marie J. Zahn, Joe Martin and Eli Enns
II. Eurasia and Australia
7. Chestnut Time and Chestnut Place: Conserving Chestnut-Ness (Kestanelik) in Turkey
Jeffrey Wall
8. Hawthorn in Ireland: a rich heritage of folklore, fact and fantasy
Peter Wyse Jackson
9. The Carob as a Blessed or Accursed Tree
Amots Dafni and Saleh 'Aql Khatib
10. Plant pathogens in emotional landscapes: olive stakeholders and Xylella outbreak in Apulia, Southern Italy
Fabio Gatti
11. Local cultural values of Persian walnut in Iran
Asaad Habibi, Mohsen Hamedpour-Darabi and Kourosh Vahdati
III. East Asia
12. How Nuaulu Sago Palms Feature in Debates Around the Measurement of Plant Use and Valuation
Roy Ellen
13. Revisiting the Folk Value of Kitayama Sugi under contemporary cultural changes
Andrea Flores Urushima, Benoit Jacquet and Wil de Jong
IV. Africa
14. Djinn-etics of the Argan Tree: Navigating vegetal human Hybrid Kinship
Romain Simenel, Yildiz Almeeruddy Thomas and Ahmed Aarab
15. The Folk Value of Eucalyptus, Cedar, and Olive in Northwestern Ethiopia
Morgan Ruelle and Zemede Asfaw
Biography
Jeffrey Wall is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ethnobiology and holds a PhD in Natural Resources from Cornell University, USA.
