Michelle Hegmon, B. Sunday Eiselt
AP 94
This collection of essays is based on the 2005 Society for American Archaeology symposium and presents research that epitomizes Richard I. Ford’s approach of engaged anthropology.
Category: Richard I. Ford
Ethnobiology at the Millennium: Past Promise and Future Prospects
Richard I. Ford
AP 91
A collection of papers from the Ethnobiology 2000 millennium conference in Ann Arbor.
Medicinal Plants of Native America
Daniel E. Moerman
T 19
In this encyclopedia of North American ethnobotany, thousands of native plants are organized by family, genus, use (illness), tribal culture, and common name. Foreword by Richard I. Ford.
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
Richard I. Ford, ed.
AP 75
As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an “explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America.” This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.
The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany (2nd Edition)
Richard I. Ford
AP 67
Nature and Status, published in 1978, is still a standard text of the discipline, with classic papers exploring theoretical issues, principles of plant utilization, prehistoric economics, and more. A reprint of this watershed volume includes all these classic papers, a new 30-page introduction by Ford, and pages of new references.
For the Director: Research Essays in Honor of James B. Griffin
Charles E. Cleland, ed.
AP 61
In 1975, James B. Griffin retired as director of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. During his three decades as director and professor, he had become one of the leading archaeologists in North America and had tremendous influence over the next generation of archaeological research. To honor the man and his work, nineteen scholars contributed essays to this volume.
Fabrica San Jose and Middle Formative Society in the Valley of Oaxaca
Robert D. Drennan
M 8
In the early 1970s, Robert D. Drennan excavated the Middle Formative archaeological site Fábrica San José in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this volume he presents the results of the excavations and provides a chronology of Middle Formative ceramics. Appendix on carbonized plant remains by Richard I. Ford.
Social Exchange and Interaction
Edwin N. Wilmsen, ed.
AP 46
Contributors in this volume are concerned with the role of exchange in maintaining social systems as diverse as aboriginal Australia, 1960s Madagascar, and prehistoric Mesopotamia. Contributions by Aram A. Yengoyan, George C. Frison, Richard I. Ford, Stuart Struever, Gail L. Houart, Peter Benedict, Henry T. Wright, Conrad P. Kottak, and Kent V. Flannery.