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词条 Nina Etkin
释义

  1. Education and academic career

     Academic positions  Awards and honors 

  2. Publications

     Books[5] 

  3. Memorials

  4. References

  5. External links

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}}Nina Lilian 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 Hawai‘i; 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[2].

Academic positions

  • Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 1979–1983
  • Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1983–1990
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1990–1994
  • Full Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1994–2009.
  • Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2001–2002

She was also a member of the medical faculty of the University of Hawai‘i.

Awards and honors

Etkin served as Editor in Chief of Economic Botany, the journal of the Society for Economic Botany.[3]

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

Etkin won the 2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society for Economic Botany.[4]

Publications

Books[5]

  • 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

Memorials

  • The Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund supports graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, “particularly those working in biocultural and medical anthropology”.[3]
  • The UHM Campus Arboretum has an Akee tree (Blighia sapida) as a memorial namesake tree dedicated with a plaque to Dr. Etkin; the species chosen reflects her research interest in cultural plant exchanges between Africa and the Caribbean.
  • A special issue of the newsletter of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology collected testimonials from her students and colleagues.[2]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/01/13/features/story01.html|title=Food, it's good medicine: A UH professor's new book covers how nutrition affects people's health|last=Namkoong|first=Joan|date=January 13, 2007|work=Honolulu Star Bulletin|access-date=September 11, 2018}}
2. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=April 2009|title=Special Issue commemorating Nina L. Etkin|url=http://www.ethnopharmacology.org/downloads/newsletters/nl_2009/ise_newsletter_april_2009.pdf|journal=ISE Newsletter|volume=8(1)|pages=|via=}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/graduate/funding/etkin-fund/index.html|title=Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund|last=Department of Anthropology|first=University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa|date=|website=www.anthropology.hawaii.edu|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-09-12}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109065245/http://www.econbot.org:80/_news_/index.php?sm=03|title=Society for Economic Botany {{!}} Press Releases|date=2010-01-09|access-date=2018-09-12}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/landscaping/plants/namesakes.php|title=UH Mānoa · Namesake Trees|website=manoa.hawaii.edu|access-date=2018-09-12}}

External links

  • Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund
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