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Science and Ethnoscience, part 2: European Biology as Ethnobiology
SCIENCE AND ETHNOSCIENCE E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Part 2. European Science as Ethnoscience: Science in Europe before International Science Came Recently, historians of science have reacted against the old model of evaluating former beliefs in light of current knowledge. This is surely the right thing to do. However, it […]
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Science and Ethnoscience, part 1: Science
SCIENCE AND ETHNOSCIENCE E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology University of California, Riverside Part 1. Science and Ethnobiology Science and Knowledge The present paper questions the distinctions between “science,” “religion,” “traditional ecological knowledge,” and any other divisions of knowledge that may sometimes be barriers in the way of Truth. I will make this case via […]
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND MAYA ETHNOBIOLOGY: A VIEW FROM CENTRAL QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO
E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Gene@ucr.edu www.krazykioti.com 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 […]
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Food and Development
Food and development E. N. Anderson “The first law of economics is that for every economist there is an equal and opposite economist,… and the second law is that they are both invariably wrong.” (Paul Sillitoe, 2010:xvii.)
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Recipes Worth a Thousand Gold
Recipes Worth a Thousand Gold: The Food Sections By Sun Simiao Translated by Sumei Yi, Dept. of History, University of Washington, Seattle, with notes summarized, from edition published in Peking, 1985; ed. E. N. Anderson Introductory Notes by E. N. Anderson Sumei Yi, a graduate student in Chinese history at […]
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Maya Ethnobotany: Four Studies
Maya Ethnobotany: Four Studies E. N. Anderson 1. Yucatan Maya Herbal Medicine: Practice and Future 2 2. Wild Plum Shoots and Jicama Roots: Food Security in Quintana Roo Maya Life 12 3. African Influences on Maya Foods 21 4. From Sacred […]