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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 […]
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The Morality of Ethnobiology
Doctor Faustus, Ethnobiologist: The Morality of Ethnobiology E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology and Center for Conservation Biology University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0418 Gene@ucrac1.ucr.edu Abstract Recent debates over bioprospecting, biopiracy, and indigenous intellectual property rights have raised some basic ethical issues that lie well outside the ordinary province of anthropology […]
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Saving American Education in the 21st Century:
Part I: K-12 1 Modern classroom education is very different from traditional teaching. A teacher lectures, often in highly abstract terms, and often with no demonstration (though perhaps with “visuals”—not necessary very relevant or revealing ones). Students copy facts and memorize them. Testing does not involve making the students do what they’ve learned; it involves […]
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Saving American Education in the 21st Century: The Lessons of Traditional Environmental Education
A paper based on this posting is under consideration for publication. Abstract Education in science, natural history, and the environment was carried out in traditional societies largely through learning-by-doing, supplemented by watching and by listening to tales and stories. These stories were usually either myths or highly circumstantial personal memoirs told by elders and mentors. […]