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       Mary W. Klinger Book Award    [ Award Criteria]

This award is given to an outstanding book at each annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany.

PLEASE submit nominations to the Book Award Committee:
Daniel F. Austin - Chair; Members: John Rashford, Eric Boa, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund and Nancy Turner



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AWARD DETAILS
2011

Daniel F. Austin
Baboquivari Mountain Plants by Daniel Austin
University of Arizona Press (April 13, 2010). 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0816528373
ISBN-13: 978-0816528370

Nominees for 2011 -------------------

Baboquivari Mountain Plants. Daniel F. Austin
Hybrid. The History and Science of Plant Breeding. Kingsbury, Noel
In the Shadow of Slavery. Carney, Judith A. and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
Paleonutrition. Sutton, Mark Q., Sobolik, Kristin D., & Gardner, Jill K
The World of Soy. Du Bois, C. M., Tan, C.-B., & Mintz, S., eds
2010

Eduardo S. Brondizio
The Amazonian Caboclo and the Acai Palm: Forest Farmers in the Global Market
New York Botanical Garden Press (2008). 403 pages
Volume 16 of the Advances in Economic Botany series
ISBN 0893274763

Nominees for 2010 -------------------

2009

Claire Hope Cummings
Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Beacon Publishing (2008). 240 pages
ISBN 978-080708580-6

Uncertain Peril is a beautifully scripted, clearly articulated treatise on genetically modified crops. The author has extensive legal background and experience in agriculture and environmental policy related to GMOs (genetically modified organisms, i.e. transgenic plants). She proposes alternatives to industrial agriculture that work in harmony with nature. Her thesis that indigenous peoples' food production systems can point the way for sustainable approaches to greater global food security features research of members of the Society for Economic Botany.

Nominees for 2009 -------------------

Ragone, Diane and Van Assche, Jozef (2007)
First International Symposium on Breadfruit Research and Development.

2007

M. Kat Anderson.
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
University of California Press (June 2005). 555 pages
ISBN: 0520248511

Nominees for 2007 -------------------

Boa, Eric. (2004)
Wild Edible Fungi. A global overview of their use and importance to people.

Motley, Zerega, & Cross. eds. (2006).
Darwin's Harvest: new approaches to the origins, evolution, & conservation of crops.

Anderson, Edward N. (2005).
Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community.

Yetman, David. (2006).
The Organ Pipe Cactus.

Arenas, Pastor.
(2003).
Etnografía y Alimentación entre lost Toba-Ñachilamole#ek y Wichí-Lhuku'tas del Chaco Central (Argentina).

2006

Bradley C. Bennett, Marc A. Baker, Patricia Gomez Andrade, Patricia Gomez Andrade.
Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Eastern Ecuador (Advances in Economic Botany).
New York Botanical Garden Press (April 2002). 304 pages
ISBN: 0893274216

Nominees for 2006 -------------------

Dunmire, W. W. (2004).
Gardens of New Spain. How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America.
Austin, TX 78713-7819, University of Texas Press, Post Office Box 7819.

Lewis, W. H. and M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis (2003).
Medical Botany. Plants Affecting Human Health, Second Edition.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
2005
Daniel F. Austin. 2004.
Florida Ethnobotany.
CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. 909 pp.
ISBN:0849323320
Nominees for 2005 -------------------

Dunmire, W. W. (2004).
Gardens of New Spain. How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America.
Austin, TX 78713-7819, University of Texas Press, Post Office Box 7819.

Lewis, W. H. and M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis (2003).
Medical Botany. Plants Affecting Human Health, Second Edition.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
2004
Jean H. Langenheim. 2003.
Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany.
Timber Press, OR. 586 pp.
ISBN: 0881925748
Nominees for 2004 -------------------

Bennett, B. C., Marc A. Baker, and Particia Gomez Andrade. (2002)
Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Eastern Ecuador. Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 14.
The New York Botanical Garden Press, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Blvd., Bronx, New York 10458-5126.

Kwa’ioloa, Michael and Ben Burt. (2001)
Na Masu’u kia’I Kwara’ae: Out Forest of Kwara’ae.
British Museum Press, 46 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QQ

Langenheim, J. H. (2003)
Plant Resins. Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, Ethnobotany.
Timber Press, Inc., 133 SW Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland, Oregon 97204-3527.

Marles, Robin J., Christina Clavelle, Leslie Monteleone,
Natalie Tays, Donna Burns.
(2000)
Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada’s Northwest Boreal Forest.
UBC Press and Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service.

Sarah A. Laird (Editor) (2002)
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge.
288 pages 1st edition. Stylus Pub Llc.

Valenzuela-Zapata, Ana G. (2003)
El Agave Tequilero. Cultivo e Industria de México, 3e.
Mundi-Prensa México, Río Pánuco, 141 Co., Cuauhtémoc, 06500, México, D.F., México.
2003
David Yetman and Thomas R. Van Devender. 2002.
Mayo Ethnobotany. Land, History, and
Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico.

University of California Press, 2130 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.
xiv + 359 pp. (hardcover).
ISBN 0520227212
Nominees for 2003 -------------------

Bennett, B. C., Marc A. Baker, and Particia Gomez Andrade. (2002)
Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Eastern Ecuador. Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 14.
The New York Botanical Garden Press, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Blvd., Bronx, New York 10458-5126.

Cunningham, Anthony B. (2001)
Applied Ethnobotany. People, Wild Plant Use & Conservation.
Earthscan Publications Ltd., London. Nominated by: Helen Rose, Earthscan, 5 Feb. 2001.

David Yetman and Thomas R. Van Devender. (2002)
Mayo Ethnobotany. Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico.
University of California Press, 2130 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.
xiv + 359 pp. (hardcover). US $ 48.00. ISBN 0-520-22721-2.

Pearsall, D. M. (2000)
Paleoethnobotany. A Handbook of Procedures, second edition.
San Diego, CA 92101-4495, Academic Press, 525 B Street, Suite 1900.

Sarah A. Laird (Editor) (2002)
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge.
288 pages 1st edition. Stylus Pub Llc. ISBN: 1853836982
2002
Wendy Hodgson. 2001.
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ 85721.
xviii +313 pp. (hardcover).
ISBN 0-8165-2060-7
Nominees for 2002 -------------------

Minnis, Paul E. and Wayne J. Elisens (eds.) (2000)
Biodiversity and Native America.
University of Oklahoma Press, 4100 28th Avenue N. W., Norman, OK 73069-8212,.
x + 310 pp. (hardcover). $34.95. ISBN 0-8061-3232-9
- nominated for consideration in 2001.

Sarah A. Laird (Editor) (2002)
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge.
288 pages 1st edition. Stylus Pub Llc. ISBN: 1853836982

Pearsall, D. M. (2000)
Paleoethnobotany. A Handbook of Procedures, second edition.
San Diego, CA 92101-4495, Academic Press, 525 B Street, Suite 1900.
2001
M. W. Eubanks. 1999.
Corn in Clay. Maize Paleoethnobotany in Pre-Columbian Art.
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
ISBN 0-8130-1669-X
Nominees for 2001 -------------------

Davidson, A. (1999)
The Oxford Companion to Food.
London. Oxford University Press, London.

Paye, G. D. (2000)
Cultural Uses of Plants. A Guide to Learning about Ethnobotany.
The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY.
1999
Wade Davis. 1997.
One River. Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.
A Touchstone Book, Simon Schuster Company, New York.
Nominees for 1999 -------------------

Carrington, Sean. (1998)
Wild Plants of the Eastern Caribbean
Macmillan Education Ltd., London.

Brussell, David Eric (1997)
Potions, Poisons, and Panaceas: An Ethnobotanical Study of Monserrat
(with a Foreword by Schultes), Southern Illinois University Press.

Moerman, Daniel E. (1998)
Native American Ethnobotany.
Timber Press, Portland Oregon.
1998
Amadeo M. Rea. 1997.
At the Desert's Green Edge. An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima.
The University of Arizona Press, 1230 Park Ave., Tucson, AZ.
Nominees for 1998 -------------------

Robert Voeks. (1997)
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil.
University of Texas Press, Austin.

Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox. (1996)
Plants, People and Culture.
W. H. Freeman Co.

Miguel N. Alexiades (ed.). (1996)
Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A Field Manual.
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.

Carol A. Newall, Linda A. Anderson, J. David Phillipson. (1996)
Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Health-Care Professionals.
The Pharmaceutical Press, London.
1997
Cath M. Cotton. 1996.
Ethnobotany: Principles and Applications.
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Baffins Lane, England.
Nominees for 1997 -------------------

Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox. (1996)
Plants, People and Culture.
W. H. Freeman Co.

Miguel N. Alexiades (ed.). (1996)
Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A Field Manual.
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.

Cheatham, Scooter, Marshall C. Johnston, and Lynn Marshall. (1995)
The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern United States,
the Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico. Volume 1.

Useful Wild Plants, Inc., Austin, TX.
1996
William Balee. 1994.
Footprints of the Forest. Ka'apor Ethnobotany
--the Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People.

Columbia University Press, New York.
Nominees for 1996 -------------------

Arvigo, R. and M. Balick (1993)
Rainforest Remedies. One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize.
Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI.

J. Pojar and A. Mackinnon. (1994)
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Lone Pine Press, Vancouver.

Beryl B. Simpson and Molly C. Ogorzaly. (1995)
Economic Botany. Plants in Our World.
McGraw-Hill, Inc. New York.

Shahina A. Ghazanfar. (1994)
Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants.
CRC Press, Inc. 2000 Corporate Blvd. N. W., Boca Raton, Fl.

Richard E. Schultes and Siri von Reis. (1995)
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline.
Dioscorides Press, Portland, OR.

Gary J. Martin. (1995)
Ethnobotany. A Methods Manual.
Chapman Hall, New York.

Christopher Joyce. (1994)
Earthly Goods. Medicine-Hunting in the Rainforest.
Little, Brown Co., Boston, Mass.
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