ABSTRACT
Ethnobiology has moved through several stages: descriptive, cognitive-analytic, ecological, widely inclusive, and multidisciplinary. The field has rapidly evolved from one concerned with the ancient traditions of small-scale societies to one concerned with all aspects of environmental knowledge and wisdom. It has thus expanded to investigate cosmology, worldview, and ontology, and has tended to merge with or blend into political ecology, environmental science, natural history, and psychology.
