This article gives an account of the current status of ethnobiology in Ecuador. Our goal is a generalized diagnosis of Latin America’s ethnobiological research production, which portrays Ecuadorian ethnobiology as practically non-existent. We perform an updated search of online databases, using a range of keywords, to show that elements of an ethnobiological research program are indeed present in Ecuadorian scholarship. While ethnobotany is the most developed sub-discipline of ethnobiology in Ecuador, there is also research on ethnomedicine, ethnozoology, and, to a lesser extent, ethnomycology. The development of these sub-disciplines promotes further ethnobiological scholarship in Ecuador. Beyond these sub-disciplines, ethnobiology is interwoven with contemporary anthropological accounts that emphasize the relationships between nature and culture and shine a light on the epistemic plurality of ethnobiology. If ethnobiology in Ecuador is distinguished by an epistemic plurality—understood through these different styles of reasoning—then it can be characterized without being confined to sub-disciplines with the ethno- prefix.

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厄瓜多尔民族生物学的现状

本文介绍了厄瓜多尔民族生物学的现状。我们的目标是对拉丁美洲的民族生物学研究成果进行广义诊断，将厄瓜多尔的民族生物学描述为实际上不存在。我们使用一系列关键字对在线数据库进行了更新搜索，以表明厄瓜多尔奖学金中确实存在民族生物学研究计划的内容。尽管民族植物学是厄瓜多尔最先进的民族生物学子学科，但也有关于民族医学，民族生态学以及在较小程度上涉及民族学的研究。这些子学科的发展促进了厄瓜多尔进一步的民族生物学学术研究。除了这些子学科，民族生物学与当代人类学交织在一起，强调自然与文化之间的关系，并为认识论民族生物学提供了亮光。如果厄瓜多尔的民族生物学以认识论的多元性来区分（通过这些不同的推理方式加以理解），那么它的特征就可以不局限于具有民族前缀的子学科。