E. N. Anderson
Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Preface
These papers began life as papers delivered at various learned venues since 2003. They report some new field work, and a great deal of new thinking about older field work. Since 1989, I have done research in and around Chunhuhub and Presidente Juarez, Quintana Roo, on Yucatec Maya development and ethnobiology. Some of this work has theoretical or ethnographic significance, and a great deal of it has some relevance to current development issues. It seems reasonable to bring my recent writings together in the present format, and make them available as a package. I am also leaving these writings, deliberately, in a rather informal style and format, and posting them to my website, rather than trying to write them up as a formal publication. I would rather have them free and accessible in all senses of the word, for students and professionals in the field of agricultural and rural development.