E. N. Anderson
Eugene N. Anderson (born 1941[1]) is a professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.
Career
Anderson received a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard College in 1962 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. He taught at Riverside from 1966-2006, when he became emeritus. He has worked on cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, ethnobiology, and food and nutrition in China, Pacific Northwest, and the Yucatan (Yucatec Maya).[2]
He was President of the Society of Ethnobiology from 2007-2009[citation needed] and received the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from it in 2013 for his "outstanding contributions" to the field.[3] He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnobiology, Human Ecology, and the Journal of Ecological Anthropology.[citation needed]
He has done field work in Hong Kong, Malaysia, British Columbia, and Quintana Roo.[citation needed]
Select bibliography
- 1988 —, The Food of China, Yale University Press
- 2004 Betty B. Faust, E. N. Anderson, and John Frazier (eds.), Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya, Praeger
- 2005, 2014 —, Everyone Eats, New York University Press
- 2005 E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina, Tzuc: Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico, Tucson: University of Arizona Press
- 2005 —, Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community, University of Arizona Press
- 2007 —, Floating World Lost, University Press of the South
- 2008 —, Mayaland Cuisine, Lulu Publishing (online)
- 2010 —, The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World, Praeger
- 2012 Barbara A. Anderson and E.N. Anderson, Warning Signs of Genocide, Lexington Books
- 2014 —, Caring for Place, Left Coast Press
- 2014 —, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China, University of Pennsylvania Press
- 2014 Mark Q. Sutton, E. N. Anderson, Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Altamira Press (3rd ed.)
- 2017 Amber O'Connor, E. N. Anderson, K'oben: 3000 Years of the Maya Hearth, Routledge
- 2019 —, The East Asian World-System: Climate and Dynastic Change, Springer
Honors
- 2013, Society of Ethnobiology, Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award[3]
- 1986, American Anthropology Association, Lifetime Member[4]
- 1981, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow[5]