Dr Gary Martin
About
Gary Martin is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist and conservationist, known for his 1995 book Ethnobotany: a methods manual, which has been translated into Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin and Spanish.
Gary received from Michigan State University his B.S. in botany in 1980 and from U. C. Berkeley two degrees in anthropology, M.A. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1996 with thesis Comparative Ethnobotany of the Chinantec and Mixe of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. He then founded the People and Plants Initiative (Kew, WWF and UNESCO) which developed and promoted (like no other programme since) Ethnobotany as a global discipline with high relevance to conservation and livelihood development. He is the Director of the Global Diversity Foundation. He has done applied research and training in ethnobotany and conservation in more than forty-five countries, including the Dominican Republic, India, Mexico, China and Thailand.
From 1998 – 2011, Gary was a research fellow and lecturer at the School of Anthropology and Conservation of the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. Between 2010-2012, he was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Society and Environment in Munich, Germany. Since 2011, he has been the Director of the Global Environments Summer Academy and is the creator of the incipient Global Environments Network. He is a native speaker of English, also speaks Spanish and French, and is learning Moroccan Arabic.
Publications
Martin, G.J. 1992. Searching for plants in peasant marketplaces. Pages 212 – 223 in Plotkin, M. and L. Famolare, editors, Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products. Washington, D.C., Island Press and Conservation International.
Martin, G.J. 1994. Conservation and ethnobotanical exploration. Pages 228‑245 in Prance, G., editor, Ethnobotany and the Search for New Drugs. Ciba Foundation Symposium 185. Chichester, Wiley.
Martin, G.J. 1995. Ethnobotany, A Methods Manual. London, Chapman & Hall.
Martin, G.J. 1996. Comparative Ethnobotany of the Chinantec and Mixe of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. Doctoral Dissertation, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley.
Martin G.J. 2000. Ethnobiology and ethnoecology. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 2:609-621.
Martin, G.J., S. Barrow, A.B. Cunningham and P. Shanley, editors. 2001. Managing Resources: Community-based Conservation of Natural Resources. Issue 6 of Martin, G.J., general editor, People and Plants Handbook: Sources for Applying Ethnobotany to Conservation and Community Development. UNESCO, Paris.
Martin, G.J., S. Barrow and P. Eyzaguirre, editors. 2001. Growing Diversity: People and Plant Genetic Resources. Issue 7 of Martin, G.J., general editor, People and Plants Handbook: Sources for Applying Ethnobotany to Conservation and Community Development. UNESCO, Paris.
Martin, G.J., A. Lee Agama, J.H. Beaman and J. Nais. 2002. Projek Etnobotani Kinabalu: The Making of a Dusun Ethnoflora (Sabah, Malaysia). People and Plants Working Paper 9. 90 pp. Paris, UNESCO.
Ibarra, J.T., del Campo, C., Barreau, A., Medinaceli, A., Camacho, C.I., Puri, R.K. and G. J. Martin. 2011. Chinantec Ethnoecology: Knowledge, practice, beliefs of fauna and hunting in a community conservation area of the Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Etnobiologiá 9: 37-59. (In Spanish)
Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Bronwen Powell, Gabrielle Esser, and Abdelaziz Abbad: Ouarghidi, Abderrahim; Martin, Gary J.; Powell, Bronwen; Esser, Gabrielle; Abbad, Abdelaziz (2013). “Botanical identification of medicinal roots collected and traded in Morocco and comparison to the existing literature”. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 9 (95): 59. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-59
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin, G., Ouhammou, A., Puri, R.K. and J. A. Hawkins. 2016. An ethnomedicinal survey of a Tashelhit speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2016.05.009
Teixidor-Toneu, I., G. J. Martin, R. K. Puri, A. Ouhammou, and J. A. Hawkins. 2017. Treating infants with frigg: linking disease aetiologies, medicinal plant use and care-seeking behaviour in southern Morocco. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 13:4