Deconstructing Dinner: Exploring Ethnobiology II: Nancy Turner
In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island
where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being
hosted. Ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans
and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems. Today,
more and more people are expressing an interest to develop
closer relationships with the earth. This leaves much to be
learned from the research of ethnobiologists, and in particular,
from the symbiotic human-earth relationships that so many
peoples around the world have long maintained. On this part II
of the series, we listen to segments from a one-on-one interview
with Nancy Turner of the University of Victoria. Nancy is one of
the most well-known ethnobiologists in Canada and Deconstructing
Dinner's Jon Steinman sat down with her in the community of
Tofino to learn more about what ethnobiology is, why the field
is an increasingly important one to pay attention to, and what
we all might learn from