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Virginia Nazarea

UGA Arch
Professor Emerita

I am interested in the interface between the way people see the elements and interrelationships in their environment with the way they decide and act in that environment. Further, I am concerned with the way the lenses people carry around in their heads are structured by the messages they received over time as they were growing up (and continue to receive when they are grown-up!) as members of a particular class, gender, and ethnicity. This concern has led me to explore a variety of different problems such as the distribution of local knowledge and the patterning of agricultural decision making of different categories of farmers, the relationship between marginality of production systems and the persistence of cultural memory that supports conservation of biodiversity, and the connection between mental maps and resource management practices of different groups of actors in a watershed.

Research Interests:
  • Ecological anthropology
  • Cultural ecology
  • Ethnoecology
  • Anthropology of development
  • Marginality, memory, and resistance
  • Culture and biodiversity
  • Philippines
  • Ecuador
  • American South
Selected Publications:

Nazarea, Virginia D., ed. 1999. Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives.Tucson: University of Arizona Press.



Nazarea, Virginia D. 1998. Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

 

Nazarea, Virginia D., Robert Rhoades, Erla Bontoyan, and Gabriela Flora. 1998. “Defining Indicators Which Make Sense to Local People: Intracultural Variation in Perceptions of Natural Resources.” Human Organization 57(2):159-170.

Education:

PhD, Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 1987

Articles Featuring Virginia Nazarea

Professor and Ethnoecology and Biodiversity Lab Director, Dr. Virginia Nazarea, along with University of Georgia alumna (B.A. '13) and Syracuse University PhD candidate, Terese Gagnon, recently edited Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and…

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