5-0210 TRANSFORMING BIOCULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY: THE LEGACIES OF R BROOKE THOMAS

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Organizers: Thomas L Leatherman (University of Massachusetts) and Lisa B Markowitz (University of Louisville)

Chairs: Thomas L Leatherman (University of Massachusetts) and Lisa B Markowitz (University of Louisville)

Discussants: Bruce P Winterhalder (University of California, Davis) and R. Brooke Thomas (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

08:00

Introduction: The Adaptability of Professor R. Brooke Thomas

Alan Goodman (Hampshire College) and Thomas L Leatherman (University of Massachusetts)

08:15

Stress and Coping In a Bio-Cultural Species

Daniel E. Brown (University of Hawaii at Hilo) and Michael L Blakey (College of William and Mary)

08:30

Energy Flow Revisited: The Use of Energetic Models to Study Evolutionary and Biocultural Processes

Marco Aiello (Northwestern University) and William R. Leonard (Northwestern University)

08:45

The Nuñoa Projects: From Human Ecology to Political Ecology In the High Andes

Thomas L Leatherman (University of Massachusetts), James W Carey (CDC), William R. Leonard (Northwestern University), Susan Leurssen (State Department of Public Health), Henry F Lyle (University of Washington), Lisa B Markowitz (University of Louisville), Bradley P Stoner (Washington University), Catherine M Tucker (Indiana University) and Bruce P Winterhalder (University of California, Davis)

09:00

From Nuñoa to Public Health: the Influence of R. Brooke Thomas's Intellectual Contributions to Research and Practice In STD/HIV Prevention

Bradley P Stoner (Washington University) and James W Carey (CDC)

09:15

Discussant

Bruce P Winterhalder (University of California, Davis)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Dietary Biodiversity and Food Systems Sovereignty: Advocating for Biocultural Theories of Change and Contradiction

Barrett P Brenton (St. Johns University)

10:00

From the Maya World to the World of Tone: The Social Transformations of Mahogany

Jose E Martinez-Reyes (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

10:15

Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning for Sustainability and Justice

Karen Kay Gaul (The Evergreen State College)

10:30

Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of Brooke Thomas's Political Ecology

Barbara Rose Johnston (Center for Political Ecology)

10:45

Comments from Alan Swedlund and George Armelagos

11:00

Discussant

R. Brooke Thomas (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

11:15

Discussion

11:30

Discussion

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