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Eugene N. Anderson
A leading anthropologist of food and culture, this writer explores how people live with their environments and make meaning through what they eat. His work brings together China studies, ethnobiology, ecology, and everyday human experience in a way that feels both scholarly and alive.
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The first Moroccan crisis, 1904-1906
by Eugene N. Anderson
About the author
Born in 1941, Eugene N. Anderson is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He earned a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard College in 1962 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, and he taught at Riverside for decades before becoming emeritus.
His research spans cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, ethnobiology, and food and nutrition. Sources consistently describe his fieldwork and writing as especially focused on China, the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Yucatán, with a long-running interest in how food, environment, and culture shape one another.
Anderson has also been recognized by his peers for his contributions to ethnobiology, including receiving the Society of Ethnobiology's Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award in 2013. Across his books and essays, he is known for making big cultural questions feel grounded in real places, real communities, and the details of daily life.