Nina Etkin

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Nina Etkin
Born	June 13, 1948
Died	January 26, 2009
Fields	Anthropology, Botany
Alma mater	Washington University in St. Louis
Known for	Ethnobotany, Economic botany, Ethnopharmacology

Nina L. Etkin (June 13, 1948 - January 26, 2009) was an anthropologist and biologist. Dr. Etkin was noted for her work in medical anthropology, ethnobiology, and ethnopharmacology. She studied the relation between food and health for over thirty years. Her work involved complementary and alternative medicines for prevention and treatment in Hawaii; the use of ethnomedicines in Indonesia; and health issues in Nigeria. She won numerous grants and awards from national and international agencies and published several books as well as over 80 professional articles in peer reviewed journals. ^[1]

Education and academic career

Etkin earned her undergraduate degree in zoology from Indiana University in 1970 and her MA and PhD in Anthropology in 1972 and 1975 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Academic positions

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 1979-1983
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1983-1990
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 1990-1994
Full Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 1994-2009.
Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2001-2002

She was also a member of the medical faculty of the University of Hawaii.

Awards and honors

Etkin served as Editor in Chief of Economic Botany, the journal of the Society of Economic Botany.^[2]

She was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a past president and honorary board member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology.^[3]

Dr. Etkin won the 2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society of Economic Botany.^[4]

Publications

Books

Plants in Indigenous Medicine & Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches, 1986
Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, 1994
Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food, 2006
Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Beverages that Mediate Sociability, 2009

References

External links

Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund

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Persondata
Name	Etkin, Nina
Alternative names
Short description	American anthropologist
Date of birth	June 13, 1948
Place of birth
Date of death	January 26, 2009
Place of death

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