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  • China Food Updates

    / Stand Straight and Never Bend: Twelve Thousand Years of Feeding People in the Face of Drought, Flood, Fire, and War E. N. Anderson This post consists of material on Chinese food that I have assembled over a lifetime, and not published because I haven’t had enough time or energy to finalize the work. I […]

  • Many and Varied Worlds of Food

    MANY AND VARIED WORLDS OF FOOD E. N. Anderson www.krazykioti.com gene@ucr.edu This post consists of material left out of my various books on food because I haven’t had time or energy to pursue the topics enough. It consists of various reading notes and odd observations. They could be useful to food experts and researchers, so […]

  • Early Ethnobiology: Historical and Personal Notes

    Early Ethnobiology: Historical and Personal Notes E. N. Anderson University of California, Riverside gene@ucr.edu www.krazykioti.com Abstract To me, the critical moment in ethnobiology was the point at which anthropologists began to specify what words meant in traditional small-scale languages, instead of “translating” words by finding an English or Latin equivalent. Self-conscious use of “native categories” […]

  • Bibliography of E. N. Anderson

    BIBLIOGRAPHY E. N. ANDERSON Just about 8400 pages as of 2021 (after bk 32, article 51, chap 61).  Splitting the difference on coauthored books. PUBLISHED         Books and Monographs  1.  1970.  The Floating World of Castle Peak Bay.  Washington, DC:  American Anthropological Association, Anthropological Studies Series, Vol. 3, 274 pages.  2.  1972.  Essays on South […]

  • Cool quotations

    Cool stuff “Cool” is remarkably enduring as a word.  It comes from the West African concept, according to Robert Faris Thompson (Jessica Ogilvie, “You Know It,” LAT, Nov. 10, 2012, p.E7).  Chevere is South American Spanish for “cool.” Traveling light…. The train done gone and the Greyhound bus don’t run But walkin’ ain’t crowded and […]

  • The Wolf You Feed

    The Wolf You Feed E. N. Anderson gene@ucr.edu www.krazykioti.com ** Abstract             Studies of genocide find that once killing is started, almost everyone joins in.  People suddenly change from peace and order to violent murder, and often back to peace when the dictator falls.  This can be explained only by the existence of both potentialities […]