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3 books match the query 'Ford, Richard I.'

cover of Ethnobiology at the Millennium: Past Promise and Future Prospects

Ethnobiology at the Millennium

Past Promise and Future Prospects

Edited by Richard I. Ford

University of Michigan Press, 2001

A collection of papers from the Ethnobiology 2000 millennium conference in Ann Arbor. Contributions by Richard Ford, Elizabeth Wing, Steven Weber, Paul Minnis, Karen Adams, Eugene Hunn, Cecil Brown, Catherine Fowler, Nancy Turner, and Eugene Anderson.
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cover of Prehistoric Food Production in North America

Prehistoric Food Production in North America

Edited by Richard I. Ford

University of Michigan Press, 1985

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.
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cover of The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed

The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed

Edited by Richard I. Ford with a new introduction by Richard I. Ford

University of Michigan Press, 1994

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.
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