Research Network: Eastern-European Ethnobiologists
Project leader
Ingvar Svanberg, PhD
Project participants
Scientific Committee: Andrea Pieroni – University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy; Ingvar Svanberg – Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden; Łukasz Łuczaj – Dept of Botany and Biotechnology of Economic Plants, University of Rzeszów, Poland, Renata Sõukand – Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia; Zsolt Molnár – Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.
Project period
2010 - ongoing
Project description
In October 2010 a significant workshop called »Old treasures in the new Europe«, with representatives from many European countries, was organized in Padise, Estonia. This was a new beginning for ethnobiological research in northern, eastern and south-eastern Europe. A new network of dedicated, mostly young, scholars from various countries has emerged. In October 2011 we met again, this time in the village of Királyrét in northern Hungary, thus attracting further scholars from a wider circle of countries in the eastern and south-eastern parts of Europe. A third meeting was held in Kików near Busko Zdrój, Poland, in October 2013. The network that emerged from these three meetings has been vital and has created co-operation, and opportunities for the co-authoring of many scientific publications.
Related publications
Ingvar Svanberg, "The Fortuitous Ethnobotanist on Ice: Frans Reinhold Kjellman (1846–1907) and his field work among the Maritime Chukchi at Pitlekay", in Encounters with the science of the concrete: Pioneers in European Ethnobiology, eds. Łukasz Łuczaj and Ingvar Svanberg (in press)
Aleksandra Ippolitova & Ingvar Svanberg, "Field work in the Minusinsk area: Petr Ostrovskikh (1870–1940) contributions to Khakas ethnobotany", in Encounters with the science of the concrete: Pioneers in European Ethnobiology, eds. Łukasz Łuczaj and Ingvar Svanberg (In press)
Sabira Ståhlberg & Ingvar Svanberg "Among fishermen and horse nomads: Johan Peter Falck in Russia and Siberia 1768–1774”, in Encounters with the science of the concrete: Pioneers in European Ethnobiology, eds. Łukasz Łuczaj and Ingvar Svanberg (In press)
Monika Kujawska & Ingvar Svanberg, "Early women ethnobiologists", in Encounters with the science of the concrete: Pioneers in European Ethnobiology, eds. Łukasz Łuczaj and Ingvar Svanberg (In press)
Łukasz Łuczaj & Ingvar Svanberg, "Activity contexts and biocultural domains. European ethnobiology and ethnobiologists in Europe", in Encounters with the science of the concrete: Pioneers in European Ethnobiology, eds. Łukasz Łuczaj and Ingvar Svanberg (In press).
Renata Sõukand, Cassandra L. Quave, Andrea. Pieroni, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardió, Raivo Kalle, Łukasz Łuczaj, Ingvar Svanberg, Valeria Kolosova, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Gorka Menendez, Iwona Kołodziejska-Degórska, Ewa Pirożnikow, Rolandas Petkevičius, Avni Hajdari & Behxhet Mustafa, "Plants used for making recreational tea in Europe: a review based on specific research sites". Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine 2013, 9:58 doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-58.
Victor Ulicsni, Ingvar Svanberg & Zsolt Mólnar, "Folk knowledge of non-domestic mammals among ethnic Hungarians in North-Western Romania ", North-Western Journal of Zoology 9 (2013): 383-398.
Ingvar Svanberg, Renata Sõukand, Łukasz Łuczaj, Raivo Kalle, Olga Zyryanova, Andreas Dénes, Nóra Papp, Aneli Nedelcheva, Iwona Kołodziejska-Degórska, Daiva Šeškauskaitė & Valeria Kolosova "Uses of tree saps in the northern and eastern parts of Europe". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 81 (2012), pp. 343–357.
Łukasz Łukasz, Andraea Pieroni, JavierTardío, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Renata. Sõukand, Ingvar Svanberg & Raivo Kalle "Wild food plants use in the 21st century Europe: the disappearance of old traditions and the search for new cuisines involving wild edibles". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 81 (2012), pp. 359–370.
Ingvar Svanberg, "The use of wild plants as food in pre-industrial Sweden". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 81 (2012), pp. 317–327.
Ingvar Svanberg & Sigurður Ægisson, " Edible wild plant use in the Faroe Islands and Iceland". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 81 (2012), pp. 233–238.
Ingvar Svanberg, "Folk knowledge of an individual plant specimen: the case of the royal fern (Osmunda regalis L.) in Virestad Parish, Småland, Sweden". Ethnobiological Letters 3 (2012), pp. 63–67.
Sabira Ståhlberg & Ingvar Svanberg, "Gathering dog's tooth (Erythronium sibiricum) in Siberia”, Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 93 (2012), pp. 441–454.
Ingvar Svanberg, Łukasz Łuczaj, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Andrea Pieroni, "History and Current Trends of Ethnobiological Research in Europe", pp. 191–214 in Ethnobiology. Editors E.N. Anderson, K. Adams, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. J. Turner. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Key words
Ethnobiology,ethnobotany, Eastern Europe