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Through a Different Lens: The Art and Science of Biocultural Diversity

Volume 6, Issue 1  |  2017

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In this issue, we bridge the gap between science and the arts, exploring the power of visual and verbal art to convey the idea of biocultural diversity. Reaching beyond intellectual understanding, these creative forms engage our emotional intelligence and offer deeper, intuitive connections to the concept. Read the Editorial and Table of Contents.

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Langscape Magazine 6-1

Editorial  | Coming Full Circle

Langscape Magazine Volume 6, Issue 1  |  2017 Over twenty years ago, I was sitting in a conference room on the campus of the…
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Knowing How You Are Related to All Creation: A Sculpture Garden of Native Science and Learning

by Rose Thater Braan-Imai The Native American Academy was founded by a group of Native scholars and Traditional Knowledge Holders dedicated to increasing understanding…
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Repairing the Broken Arrow: Rebuilding Cultural Identity through Art and Language

Text and artwork by Barbara Derrick “At the heart of every culture is its language. One of the main structural pillars for communicating values,…
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In Praise of Negentropy: Art and the Micropolitics of Biocultural Diversity

Text and artwork by Rosa Caterina Bosch Rubio All photos by the artist, except as noted Cosmics. Wax and ice, different sizes. Barcelona, 2012. . I…
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Arone Meeks

At the Edge of the Region: Where Science and Art Meet in a Storied North Queensland Landscape

by Michael Davis In the tropical north of Queensland, Australia, at the mouth of the Trinity River that runs into the Pacific Ocean, lies…
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Educational Intelligence: Learning about Place and Country through Aboriginal Art and Activism in Sydney, Australia

by Stephen Houston “We have survived the white man’s world.” —from the song “We Have Survived,” written and performed by Bart Willoughby with the…
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Thinking Like Fire: The Biocultural Art of Firelighting

by Hilary Vidalakis There’s a tiny subculture of place-loving men and women who specialize in burning the land. “Prescribed fire,” they call it, though…
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Ms. Mai Biggie

People and Plants: Sustaining Agrobiodiversity through Art and Science in Zimbabwe

Text, photos, and drawings by Saori Ogura Dawn in the village of Mazvihwa. 2016 Dawn in the village. As the Milky Way—gwararakurumvi—recedes from a…
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Gloriously Entwined: Nature and Culture, Art and Agriculture

by Eliza Smith People on traditional canoes on Lake Bunyonyi in western Uganda, paddling toward the boat landing at the local marketplace. Photo: Eliza Smith,…
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When Art Beats Science: Saving Tree Kangaroos with Song and Dance in Papua New Guinea

by Jean Thomas The Tenkile, a tree kangaroo unique to Papua New Guinea. Photo: Mark Hanlin, n.d. . For tens of thousands of years,…
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Corrigan artwork

Listening to Country: Language, Art, and Conservation in Coastal Queensland, Australia

Text and artwork by Colleen Corrigan “Without language you can’t describe your Country.” —Melinda Holden (Gurang Elder) View of the Burnett River, one of…
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We Feed the World: Photographing Traditional Knowledge in the Kalix Communities of Northern Sweden

Text by Francesca Price Photographs by Clare Benson Peder Nilsson with two of his dogs and a lamb on his farm on the island…
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People Mapping: Visualizing Sense of Place for Decision Making

by Barbara Dovarch Upolu, Samoa. Students of Lauli’i Primary School tracing the contour lines to manufacture their Participatory 3D (P3D) model of Lauli’i land…
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Photo Gallery | People Mapping: Visualizing Sense of Place for Decision Making

by Barbara Dovarch   Hung Hoa Commune, Vinh, Vietnam. Men, women, children, and elders mapping together. Photo: Barbara Dovarch, 2013 . Hung Hoa Commune,…
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We Want to Map

by Barbara Dovarch Valenzuela City, Greater Manila. People building a realistic map of their settlement. Photo: Barbara Dovarch, 2013 . People mapping is a…
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Pipelines and the Poetics of Place: Bringing a Fuller Set of Values into Environmental Assessment

by Nigel Haggan Note: Please see YouTube for a video from the 2017 Pipelines and the Poetics of Place event in Vancouver, BC. . The…
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Salmon and the Poetics of Place

by Nigel Haggan Salmon gain their wisdom by eating the nuts that fall from nine hazel trees around a pool in the otherworld. Artwork: Emily…
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Tama cutting a path

Of Cassowaries and Men: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge Networks to Empower Biocultural Conservation in New Guinea

Text by William H. Thomas Social Network Analysis and graphs by Chris Leberknight Tama cutting a path to show me the trees to be…
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needle-felting process

One Square Meter: Wool Art Honors the Biocultural Diversity of Mobile Pastoralists

Text by Liza Zogib, Divya Venkatesh, Sandra Spissinger, and Concha Salguero. Artwork by Almudena Sánchez Sánchez, Ana Trejo Rodríguez, and Inés García Zapata .…
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