Eugene Newton Anderson (born 1941 [1] ) is a professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.
Anderson received a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard College in 1962 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley 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). [2]
He was President of the Society of Ethnobiology from 2007 to 2009[ citation needed ] and received the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from it in 2013 for his "outstanding contributions" to the field. [3] He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ethnobiology , Human Ecology , and the Journal of Ecological Anthropology .[ citation needed ]
He has done field work in Hong Kong, Malaysia, British Columbia, and Quintana Roo.[ citation needed ]
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