Eugene N. Anderson (born 1941) is a professor of

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''emeritus'' at the

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Career

Anderson received a B.A. in anthropology from

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in 1962 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the

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in 1967. He taught at Riverside from 1966 to 2006, when he became ''emeritus''. He has worked on cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, ethnobiology, and food and nutrition in China, Pacific Northwest, and the Yucatán (Yucatec Maya).E.N. Anderson, ''Curriculum Vitae''
/ref> He was President of the

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from 2007 to 2009 and received the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from it in 2013 for his "outstanding contributions" to the field. He has been a member of the editorial board of the ''

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'', and the '' Journal of Ecological Anthropology''. He has done field work in

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, and

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Select bibliography

* E.N. Anderson. 1988. ''The Food of China'',

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* E.N. Anderson. 2003. ''Those Who Bring the Flowers''. Chetumal, Q. Roo, Mexico: ECOSUR. * B.B. Faust, E.N. Anderson and J. Frazier (eds.). 2004. ''Rights, Resources, Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya'', Praeger * E.N. Anderson. 2005, 2014.''Everyone Eats'',

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* E.N. Anderson and Felix Medina. 2005 ''Tzuc: Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico'', Tucson:

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* E.N. Anderson. 2005. ''Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community'', University of Arizona Press * Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.). 2005 ''The Historical Evolution of World-Systems''.

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* E.N. Anderson. 2007. ''Floating World Lost'', University Press of the South * E.N. Anderson. 2008. ''Mayaland Cuisine'',

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(online) * E.N. Anderson. 2010. ''The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World'', Praeger * B.A. Anderson and E.N. Anderson. 2012. ''Warning Signs of Genocide'',

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* E.N. Anderson. 2014. ''Caring for Place'',

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* E.N. Anderson. 2014. ''Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China'',

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* M.Q. Sutton and E.N. Anderson. 2014.
Introduction to Cultural Ecology
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(3rd ed.) * A. O'Connor and E.N. Anderson. 2017. ''K'oben: 3000 Years of the Maya Hearth'',

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* E.N. Anderson. 2019. ''The East Asian World-System: Climate and Dynastic Change'', Springer * Buell, P.D., E.N. Anderson, de Pablo, M. and M. Oskenbay. 2020. ''Crossroads of Cuisine: The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads, and Foods''.

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* E.N. Anderson & B.A. Anderson. 2020.''Complying with Genocide: The Wolf You Feed''.

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* Buell, P. D. and E. N. Anderson. 2021. ''Arabic Medicine in China: Tradition, Innovation, and Change''. Brill

Honors

* 2013, Society of Ethnobiology, Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award * 1986,

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, Lifetime Member * 1981,

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, Fellow

External links

Personal website

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, E. N. 21st-century American anthropologists Ethnobiologists University of California, Riverside faculty Harvard College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni 1941 births Living people