Cultural memory and biodiversity / Virginia D. Nazarea.

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2005.

xiv, 189 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

1st paperbound printing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.

Of memories and varieties : complementation between cultural and genetic diversity -- Memory banking protocol : guidelines toward systematic documentation -- Modernization and the distribution of indigenous knowledge -- In defense of fuzziness : the value of multiple criteria -- Threatened pockets of memories : diversity at the margins -- Cultural alternatives in in situ germplasm conservation -- Gene-rich but technology-poor? the fallacy of the equation.