Ryan Adams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lycoming College. He conducts cultural anthropology research centered on people and their relationship to food, farming, and the environment. His current work examines food sovereignty and agroecology in Puerto Rico. Past projects include an analysis of local and organic food activism in Brooklyn, NY, and land-use change in the Amazon, in particular related to large-scale landowners. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, addressing food insecurity.
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An Unfinished Synthesis: Environmental Anthropology and the Challenge of Interdisciplinary Relevance
In “History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology,” published in the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (2016), we provided a historical chronol... More