title: Treading & threading memories: a personal encounter with forest and people in Southern Venezuela.
abstract: This brief essay, which represents the third editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field", captures a few memories of the author's first fieldwork in the Venezuelan rainforest. It is a collage of objects, subjects, feelings, spaces, and events that pendulate in spheres of meaning straddling between the author's identities as both a student and a woman. The author's evocations of fifteen years ago are diluted in lasting reflections about what could be ethnoecology embraced by spaces of interactions and associations between organisms and their surroundings.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Panamericana km 11 Ado 20632, Altos de Pipe, edo. Miranda, Venezuela. elzent@ivic.gob.ve
authors.forename: Egleé L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Zent
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D019448:Ethnobotany; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014197:Trees; D014687:Venezuela
references.citation: J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2013 Feb 20;9:12
references.pmid: 23425433