Gund Affiliate, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research | IVIC · Human Ecology Lab, Anthropology Center

Eglee is a Venezuelan mother of two wonderful young men. Her academic formation is eclectic (art, anthropology, botany, conservation biology). She has conducted and applied theoretical research in two tropical ecological systems in Venezuela, the páramos of the high Andes among Parameros and lowland Amazonia among the Jotï, an Amerindian group. Eglee's projects are collaborative and participative and have been carried out emphasizing the collective construction of knowledge and the needs of the people involved, including their human, health and territorial rights. Her approach is trans-disciplinary, with diverse epistemologies, drawing in material and ideological, quantitative and qualitative aspects. Her areas of interest could be labelled as human ecology, etnoecology/ethnobiology, or ecogony. Since 2000 she have been working at the Human Ecology laboratory of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, and have been a visiting scholar at a diverse set of universities (Maryland, Delaware, Vermont, Florida, Nacional), teaching courses and providing advice for students. Eglee has written over 70 publications and is committed to the care and love of the Earth, human and non-human processes and dynamics.

Publications

  • Correa, D. F., Stevenson, P. R., Umaña, M. N., Coelho, L. d. S., Lima Filho, D. d. A., Salomão,
    R. P., Amaral, I. L. d., Wittmann, F., Matos, F. D. d., Castilho, C. V., Phillips, O. L., Guevara, J. E., Carim, M. d. J., Magnusson … Zent, E, Zent, S. … ter Steege, H. 2022 Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology   and Biogeography, 00, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13596
  • Gallegos-Riofrio, C.A., E. Zent, R. Gould. 2022 The importance of Latin American scholarship- and-practice for the relational turn in sustainability science: a reply to West et al. (2020) Ecosystems and People 18 (1):478-483. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2108499
  • Zent, E. S. Zent, Lojta Jtute, Awelajlu Jtitekyo, Jkatalila̧ Jtute, Lobįko Ijtö, Ilę Jkwayo, Maliela Yaluja, Iva Juae, Noe Jono, Alejadro Molö, Aula Amikoja, Abeto Melomaja, Alabala Aubojkyo, Kyabo Bowijte , Awaïkï Yewi, Jani-Yewi Yewi, Ba̧lejko Jtitekyo, Jkai, Jtobá Jtute, Lila Yolo, Ajti̧ta Uliejteja, Jtujkaybojlae Bowijte, Ulijkule Jtute, Jkwajkya Jlawi, and Late Bowijte. 2022 Trekking the Amazon  with  Love  and  Care.  Ethnobiology  Letters. 13(1):29-40. DOI10.14237/ebl.13.1.2022.1809  https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl
  • Zent, E. & S. Zent 2022 Love Sustains Life: Jkyo Jkwainï and Allied Strategies in Caring for the Earth Journal of Ethnobiology 42(1):86-104. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-42.1.86
  • 10. Zent, E. 2021 Jtijatï: Nociones de salud entre los Amerindios del Amazonas Venezolano Territorios Comunes. Ecología política en tiempos de pandemias: Enfoques transdisciplinarios y pluriculturales sobre salud en Venezuela. Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela. 4:50-67. https://www.ecopoliticavenezuela.org/2021/12/02/jtijati-nociones-de-salud-entre-los- amerindios-del-amazonas-venezolano/

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

Ethnoecology, Human Ecology, Amazon, Indigenous Peoples, Ecogony

Education

  • PhD, University of Georgia
  • MA, Anthropology, University of California: Berkeley
  • Magister Scientiarium, Anthropology/Biology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas

Contact

Website(s):
  1. Research Gate
  2. ORCiD