Cultural anthropology — Food production in Africa

A. Endre Nyerges
Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Earlham College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
859-238-5240
endre.nyerges@centre.edu

Editor of The Ecology of Practice: Studies of Food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan West Africa (Gordon and Breach, 1998), part of a series. Research on ethnography and ecology in Africa and the Middle East.

Ecotourism and cross-cultural tourism issues — Cross-cultural gender issues — Sustainable development — Cultural survival

Phyllis Passariello
W. George Matton Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Barnard College-Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
859-238-8790
phyllis.passariello@centre.edu

Extensive research on tourism as the basis for sustainable development for indigenous cultures. Related topics: impact of tourism on native people, the recreation of ethnicity as a marketing strategy, and the religious pilgrimage as a factor in tourism. Field work on these topics with the Maya people of Mexico and the Otavalo group in Ecuador. Has investigated Marian pilgrimage sites throughout the world. Strong advocate of research and field work for undergraduate students. Leader of overseas study programs in Ecuador.