Eugene Hunn

Eugene S. Hunn, PhD, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1973, is professor emeritus in the department of anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle, where he has taught since 1972. He has pursued ethnoecological research with Native communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, and with Yakama and Umatilla Indian communities in Washington and Oregon, as well as subsistence research with several Alaska native communities. Key publications include Tzeltal Folk Zoology: The Classification of Discontinuities in Nature (Academic Press, 1977), Nchi’i-Wana ‘The Big River’: Mid-Columbia Indians and their Land (University of Washington Press, 1990), and A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbee (University of Arizona Press, 2008).