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  • Career Guide for Anthropologists: Student to Professor, and How to Publish

    Career Advice for Anthropologists:  Student to Professor, and How to Publish N. Anderson Department of Anthropology University of California, Riverside   My student Jenny Banh suggested I might write a book guiding graduate students on the academic path.  I don’t have a book’s worth of knowledge, but after 50 years teaching for the University of […]

  • Climate and China’s Dynastic Cycles

      Climate and China’s Dynastic Cycles   N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology University of California, Riverside gene@ucr.edu www.krazykioti.com   Abstract   With climate change very much in the news, historians have sought correlations between climate change and the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties. This contrasts with traditional explanations by Chinese historians of those eras, […]

  • Developing Mexican Food: Globalization Early On

    Developing Mexican Food: Globalization Early On E. N. Anderson University of California, Riverside   Abstract Mexican food today is extremely diverse, and has a complicated background.  My view is that of a Mayanist who has worked in southeast Mexico and traveled widely in the country.  Already long before Columbus, Native American foodways were spreading widely; […]

  • Mayaland Cuisine: Campeche, Chiapas and Tabasco

    CAMPECHE   Recados, sauces, and minor snacks and market foods in Campeche are generally the same as in Yucatan, so refer to recipes in the previous chapter.     SEAFOOD   Black Rice Soup (a “dry soup”)   1/2 lb. rice 1 oz. lard or vegetable oil 2 garlic cloves 1 onion 2 quarts stock […]

  • Mayaland Cuisine: Yucatan

    MAYALAND CUISINE E. N. ANDERSON   Dedicated to Doña Elsi, Doña Zenaida, Doña Noemy Doña Aurora, Doña Elide and Don Felix, and all the other teachers     Table of Contents   Yucatan and Quintana Roo                               3   Campeche                                                       85   Chiapas                                                           97   Tabasco                                                           128       Preface This work consists of the […]

  • Water

      Water:  Sacred Trust or Resource to Waste   N. Anderson Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside   “Bless the Lord…. He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field:  the wild asses quench their thirst…. He watereth the hills […]