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TONY CAVENDER
PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Tikal, Guatemala

CONTACT

E-mail: cavender@etsu.edu
Phone: 423.439.6649
Office: 308 Rogers-Stout Hall


COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Nutritional Anthropology
Ethnomedicine
Anthropological Theory
Primatology
Honors Cultural Anthropology


CURRENT RESEARCH

I’m currently engaged in research on food as medicine in southern Appalachia. Some students and I recently initiated an exploratory research project on the reliance on folk medicine among Latino residents in our region. I intend to continue research of various aspects of traditional medicine in the Ecuador highlands.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009, A Tennessee Folklore Sampler (edited w/ Ted Olson), Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press and Tennessee Folklore Society.

2009, “Magical Plants Used by Curanderos in the Ecuador Highlands,” Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 5(3). http://www.ethnobiomed.com/contents/5/3.

2006, “Folk Medical Uses of Plant Foods in Southern Appalachia, USA,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 108:74-84.

2003, Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.