Ethnobiology After Four Years of Socioecological Violence

  • Andrew Flachs Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8754-2050
  • Elizabeth A. Olson Department of History, Sociology, and Anthropology, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, USA.
  • John M. Marston Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, USA.
  • Maria C. Bruno Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1750
Keywords: Ethnobiology, Political ecology, United States, Trump, White supremacy

Author Biographies

Andrew Flachs, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.

Andrew Flachs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University and an environmental anthropologist who studies food, agriculture, and ecological knowledge in the American Midwest, South India, and Bosnia.

Elizabeth A. Olson, Department of History, Sociology, and Anthropology, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, USA.

Elizabeth A. Olson is a medical and environmental anthropologist with interests in ethnobotany, community-based conservation, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and public health.

John M. Marston, Department of Anthropology, Boston University, Boston, USA.

John M. Marston is an environmental archaeologist who studies agriculture, resilience, climate-change adaptation, and the environmental implications of empire in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and western Asia.

Maria C. Bruno, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA.

Maria C. Bruno is a Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College.

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2021-01-22
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Flachs, A., Olson, E. A., Marston, J. M., & Bruno, M. C. (2021). Ethnobiology After Four Years of Socioecological Violence. Ethnobiology Letters, 12(1), 16-18. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1750
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