Virginia Nazarea’s work “View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge” appears to be written largely as a critique of previous understandings of ethnoecology and an examination of how ethnoecologists in the field need to increase their scope to include more categories.   Ethnoecology is a very holistic approach to understanding human-environment relations, and Nazarea’s writing seeks to widen the scope even further, making the study a far more valuable tool in understanding the complex relationship between the two. Nazarea’s ethnoecology allows for dynamism and fluidity. It examines the way that people see things, the different identities and cultural significances that contribute to that point of view, and their resulting actions. As one point of evidence, Nazarea critiques how others before her have been dismissive of native taxonomic structures, and points out how these systems of organization can be remarkably similar to Western models, while still being tailored for the specific needs and reasons of a local community. This particular part of Nazarea’s work was especially significant to me because it highlighted the condescension and superiority that can arise from Western examinations of different, especially indigenous, cultures. This point drives home Nazarea’s idea that in order for ethnoecology to be most impactful, it needs to be more comprehensive. Concepts of educational status, monetary status, gender, race and other categorizing elements significantly impact the power dynamic, and she believes an intersectional analysis of these things are necessary to contextualize knowledge within a society.