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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Ethnobiologists, Geophagy, Zooarchaeology, Darrell A. Posey, Wila, Ernst von Bibra, Brent Berlin, Roy Ellen, Ethnoecology, Richard Evans Schultes, Ethnolichenology, Subhuti Dharmananda, Michael Tierra, Ethnopsychopharmacology, Ethnomycology, R. Gordon Wasson, Nancy Turner, Antonio Rodrigo Pinto da Silva, Paleoethnobotany, Michael Moore, William LeSassier, Harold Conklin, Nina Etkin, Hawaiian ethnobiology, Ethnoornithology, Ethnoentomology, Gregory Cajete, Luisa Maffi, Andrew Pawley, Deborah M. Pearsall, Ulrich Willerding, Victor A. Reko, William Balee, Ethnopharmacology, Ethnomedicine, Ethnoherpetology, Burow's solution, Ethnopharmacy, Gayle J. Fritz, Rick Stepp, Annie York, Anthropization, Folk biology, Irwin Rovner, Ethnozoology, List of paleoethnobotanists. Excerpt: Darrell Addison Posey (March 14, 1947-March 6, 2001) was an American anthropologist and biologist who vitalized the study of traditional knowledge of indigenous and folk populations in Brazil and other countries. He called his approach ethnobiology and combined research with respect for other cultures, especially indigenous intellectual property rights. An obituary described him as an "anthropologist who gave up scholarly detachment to fight for the rights of native peoples." He never married and was survived by his parents and brother. He died of a brain tumor, at 53 years of age, in Oxford, England, where he made his home after 1992. Darrell A. Posey was born on March 14, 1947, son of Henry and Pearl Posey, in rural Henderson, Kentucky. From an early age he was a member of the Anglican Church. Educated at Henderson County High School, he had a biology teacher, Mr. Ned Barra, who encouraged his interest in insects. In 1970, Posey was graduated with a B.Sc. in Entomology, by the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained a M.A. in...
