With Julian Steward’s cultural ecology arises the problem of frameworks of knowledge, as everything we “know” and observe is colored by our own cultural background. Nazarea proposes a new approach to understanding culture-ecology relationships which builds upon the works and ideas of her predecessors. This new approach, which she calls ethnoecology, would attempt to understand culture-ecology relations through the perspective of the knowledge framework of the culture itself. Nazarea believes that much more can be learned about a culture by participating and understanding their point of view than by simply observing and interpreting. She provides many general examples of superior knowledge that indigenous people have of their immediate ecosystems, such as the variety and use of local plant life. The aim of this approach is to attempt to eliminate cultural bias of the observer by reducing the need for interpretation. Instead of merely “knowing” she emphasizes understanding and respecting different ways of knowing. It requires anthropologists to work in the field to attempt to truly understand the culture of their subjects. However, it also introduces a new problem in that it does not consider the possible failings and falsehoods that may be present in the local culture and social narrative.