THOMAS F. LOVE
Professor of Anthropology 8037 SW Kingfisher Way
Linfield CollegeDurham, OR 97224
McMinnville, OR 97128(503) 620-8385 (h.)
Tel: (503) 883-2504; Fax: (503) 883-2635; email:
Website:
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
1) Energy anthropology:energo-politics, energy regimes, socio-cultural consequences of global oil depletion – North America and Andes
2) Rural livelihood strategies:
a) Socio-cultural aspects of sustainability, sustainable human use of neotropical and temperate forest
and other ecosystems; non-timber forest products; ethnobotany
b) Political economy and cultural ecology of small-scale Andean agriculture and pastoralism
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California - Davis, 1983
Dissertation: "Economic Articulations and Underdevelopment in Southern Peru" (with honors)
M.A. in Anthropology, UC-Davis, 1976
M.S. in Ecology, UC-Davis, 1975
Thesis: "Ecological Niche Theory and Human Communities"
B.A. in Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1972
PUBLICATIONS
1) Energy anthropology. Energo-politics; socio-cultural consequences of global oil depletion.
Strauss, Sarah, Stephanie Rupp and Thomas Love, eds.
2013 Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies. London: Routledge.
Love, Thomas
Under revision “Illuminating Energy Paths in Peru”
2008 “Anthropology and the fossil fuel era” Anthropology Today 24(2), pp. 3-4.
Love, Thomas & David Murphy
2016 Implications of Net Energy for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus; An NSF-funded workshop at
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, 14-16 January 2016. Award Number: 1541988
Love, Thomas & Cindy Isenhour
2016 Energy and Economy: Re-cognizing High Energy Modernity as an Historical Period. IN Love &
Isenhour, eds., Economic Anthropology, 3:1“Energy and Economy.”
Love, Thomas & Cindy Isenhour, eds.
2016 Economic Anthropology 3:1 “Energy and Economy.” (selected papers from the 2014 meeting of
the Society for Economic Anthropology that we organized)
Love, Thomas & Anna Garwood
2013 “Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Cajamarca, Peru” IN Strauss, Rupp & Love, eds.
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies.Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2011 “Wind, sun and water: Complexities of alternative energy development in rural northern
Peru.”Rural Society 20:294-307.
2) Rural livelihood strategies:
a) Socio-cultural aspects of sustainability. Rural livelihoods, sustainable development of neotropical and temperate forest ecosystems; non-timber forest products; ethnobotany
Fajardo, S., A. Sours and T. Love
Under revision Medicinal Plant Use at EsSalud’s Complementary Medicine Clinic, Trujillo, Peru. Indian J
ofTraditional Knowledge.
Love, Thomas
2012 “Food System Sustainability on Campus: Plugging into Local Agriculture.” Anthropology at
Large (Bulletin of the Federation of Small Anthropology Programs) 18(1), pp. 9-13.
2002 “Extractive Reserves for the United States? Lessons from the Amazonian Experience” In
Jones, Eric T., Rebecca J. McLain, and James Weigand, eds. Nontimber Forest Products in the
United States, pp. 180-188. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
1997 Comment on “Winners and Losers: Emerging Ecological Policy.” Human Ecology Review 4(1):40.
1983b "To What are Humans Adapting?" (Review Essay of Moran, E. 1982 Human Adaptability: An
Introduction to Ecological Anthropology.) Reviews in Anthropology 10(4):1-8.
1977 "Ecological Niche Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology: A Conceptual Framework and an
Application." American Ethnologist 4(1):27-41.
Love, Thomas & Eric Jones
2001 "Why is Non-Timber Forest Product Harvesting an “Issue”? Excluding Local Knowledge and the
Paradigm Crisis of Temperate Forestry". J. of Sustainable Forestry 13 (3/4):105-121.
1997 "Grounds for argument: Local understandings, science and global processes in special forest
products harvesting" In Vance, N., ed., Special Forest Products: Biodiversity Meets the
Marketplace. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report GTR-WO-63, 163 pp.
Love, Thomas, Eric Jones & Leon Liegel
1998 “Valuing the Temperate Rainforest: Wild Mushrooming on the Olympic Peninsula Biosphere
Reserve.” Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, Special Report No. 9, pp. 16-25.
Liegel, Leon, D. Pilz & T. Love
1998 “The MAB Mushroom Study: Background and Concerns.” Ambio: A Journal of the Human
Environment, Special Report No. 9, pp. 3-7.
Liegel, Leon, D. Pilz, T. Love & E, Jones
1998 “Integrating Biological, Socioeconomic, and Managerial Methods and Results in the MAB
Mushroom Study.” Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, Special Report No. 9, pp. 26-33.
Love, Thomas & Joel Marrant
1987 Quiet Catastrophe: Social and Cultural Aspects of Harney County (OR) Flooding. The Journal of
the Shaw Historical Library 2(1):35-46.
Moles, J.A., J.L. Blomberg, T.F. Love & J.A. Thompson
1975 Family Operated Farms in Colusa County, California: A Preliminary Research Report.
Corvallis, OR: Western Rural Development Center.
b) Political economy and cultural ecology of small-scale Andean agriculture and pastoralism.
Love, Thomas
2017 The “Independent Republic of Arequipa”: Making regional culture in the Andes.Austin, TX: Univ.
of Texas Press. [a Spanish translation is underway with the Press of the Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Perú/Universidad Católica Santa Maria de Arequipa]
Under revision “From SAIS Atahualpa to ‘Sois la luz del mundo’: A case study of religion, energy and
Agrarian reform success in northern Peru.”
2005 “Pequeños Propietarios de la Campiña y los Usos Politícos del Lugar y el Mestizaje” In F.
Palacios, ed.Yuyayninchis: Revista de la Escuela Profesional de Antropología, Vol. 1, pp. 115-136.
Arequipa, Peru: Univ. Nacional de San Agustín.
1989 "Limits to the Articulation of Modes of Production: The Southwestern Peru Region" In Orlove,
B.S., M. Foley & T. Love, eds. State, Capital and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on
Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Pr., pp. 147-179.
1988 Andean Interzonal Bartering: Why Does It Persist in a Cash-Market Economy? Michigan
Discussions in Anthropology 8:87-101.
1983a "Comment" on Guillet, David "Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes
and the Himalayas Compared." Current Anthropology 24(5):568.
Orlove, B.S., M. Foley & T. Love, eds.
1989 State, Capital and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico
and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
3) Other areas:
Goddard, Ives & Thomas Love
2004a “Oregon, the Beautiful”. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):238-259.
2004b “Oregon.” Soc. for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter XXIII:1, pp. 8-10.
Love, Thomas
1999 “Birds of Yamhill County: A Preliminary Checklist.” Wamka.
1990 "Oregon Birds in the Neotropics, or...Neotropical Birds in Oregon?" In Love, Thomas, ed.
“Oregon and the Neotropics.”Oregon Birds 16(1).
1983c California and Latin American Trade. Intercambio 1:25-32.
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH LINFIELD STUDENTS
Summer 2018 – survey of medicinal plant use in Huanchaco village and cultural domain analysis of
ethnobotanical knowledge in two rural communities, Trujillo, Peru (Elide Sanchez R. and Lizette Becerra
(later withdrew for health reasons) (funded through MHIRT)
Summer 2015 - rebuilding a medicinal plant garden at Chan Chan Archaeological Site, (Sandra Garcia H.,
Kiana Ringuette); survey of medicinal plant use in Moche and Collambay villages, Trujillo, Peru (SGH, KR
and Lorena Alvarez (funded through MHIRT))
Summer 2014 – photodocumentation, website creation, Peru med anth project, Trujillo, Peru (Katelyn
Henson)
Summer 2013 – medicinal plant supply chain, Trujillo and Huamachuco, Peru (Sam Gauksheim)
Summer 2012 - clinic survey on uses of medicinal plants, Trujillo, Peru (Susana Fajardo (funded through
MHIRT), Anna Sours)
Summer 2010 - building a medicinal plant garden at Chan Chan Archaeological Site, Trujillo, Peru
(Charlotte Trowbridge, Josh Ness)
Summer 2009 - rural electrification with renewable technologies, Cajamarca, Peru (Jade Severson,
Martha Inouye)
Summer 2005 - Century Farms and Sustainability in Yamhill County (Sirpa Peterson, Kellly Stewart)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
1) Energy anthropology; socio-cultural consequences of global oil depletion
“Net Energy and the Need to Re-cognize “Familiar” Capitalism as a Stage of Human History” for double
panel “Toward an Energetic Anthropology of ‘Familiar’ Capitalism: Part II”, American Anthropological
Assn.Annual Meetings, Denver, CO, November 2015 [and I chaired the Part I panel]
“♬And we had fun, fun, fun ♫…till we went over the Net Energy Cliff: Cultural Aspects of the Twilight
of the Petroleum Age” Linfield College Faculty Lecture, April 2013 (video on my website)
“’There was no time to be selfish’: Depression-era legacies for a post-peak world” for panel “Come Hell
or High Water: Legacies and landmarks in the cultures of energy”, American Anthropological Assn.
Annual Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, November 2011
“Unconsidered problems with leaving the fossil fuel era” for panel “Cultures of Energy”, American
Anthropological Assn. Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, 19 Nov 2010 (I co-organized the session)
“Oil Worlds: People, Places, Petroleum”, panelist at Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland
State University, 12 October 2010
“Electrifying Transitions:Power and Culture in Cajamarca, Peru” for panel “Ethnographies of
Energy”, American Anthropological Assn. Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, 5 December 2009,
(with Anna Garwood, Latin America Program Manager, Green Empowerment)
“EROEI Constraints on Paths out of the Fossil Fuel Era” for Panel “After Fossil Fuels:Global
Challenges and Local Actions”, Political Ecology Society/Society for Applied Anthropology annual
joint meetings, Santa Fe, NM, 19 March 2009 (I organized the session)
“TEOTWAWKI? Anthropological Perspectives on the End of Cheap Energy” for Panel “After Cheap
Energy:Anthropological Perspectives on the Human Condition in the Wake of Fossil-Fueled
Globalization”, American Anthropological Assn. Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, 2007 (I
organized the session)
2) Rural livelihood strategies:
a) Socio-cultural aspects of sustainable development of neotropical and temperate forest ecosystems; non-timber forest products; ethnobotany
Invited plenary speaker, “Swimming in the sea of special forest products: What are the forces at
work?”, “Special Forest Products: Working Together in a Changing World” Conference, Sunriver,
OR, April, 1998
“Underground and Unseen: Mushrooms and their Harvesters on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
State”, Soc. for Applied Anthropology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1998. (I helped organize the session)
“Grounds for Argument: Global Restructuring and Local Practices in Pacific Northwest Specialty
Forest Products Harvesting”, with Eric Jones; Sixth International Symposium on Society Resource
Management, Pennsylvania State University, 1996 (I also organized and moderated the panel)
"Grounds for argument: Local understandings, science and global processes in special forest products
harvesting" OSU Sem. Series "Special Forest Products: Biodiversity Meets the Marketplace", 1995
"'Tappers and Trappers' revisited: Small-scale harvesters of non-timber resources in temperate
forests", Soc. for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Albuquerque, NM, 1995
"Non-Timber Forest Products Extraction in the Pacific Northwest: Who is Involved, and How
Widespread is this Activity?" Society and Natural Resources Biannual Meeting, Madison,
Wisconsin, 1992
"A System of Sustainable Development 'Extractive' Reserves for the Pacific Northwest Temperate
Rainforest," Oregon Academy of Sciences Session on Sustainability (I organized and chaired the
session as well), 1991
"Political Ecology of Sustainable Development Programs in Western Amazonia," Latin American
Studies Assn. Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, 1989
"Nature Tourism and Neotropical Deforestation: Promises and Pitfalls," Second Symposium on Social
Science in Resource Management, U. of Illinois, 1988
"Coping with Incremental Disaster in Harney County, Oregon," Soc. for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 1986
b) Political economy and cultural ecology of small-scale Andean agriculture and pastoralism
“Unwelcome Encounters: ‘The Independent Republic of Arequipa’ and the Altiplano” for Panel Andean
Encounters across Difference: New Frontiers, Familiar Stories?” Amer. Anthropological Assn. Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 2012
“Fire and Water: The Moral Force of Telluric Symbols in the Political Economy of early Twentieth
Century Arequipa, Peru” for Panel “Sacred Geography in Meso- and South America,” first
Conference of the Int’l. Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Univ. of Florida,
April 2006
“’The Independent Republic of Arequipa’: Failed Nationalism and the Invention of a Folk Tradition,
1890-2002” Linfield College Faculty Lecture, 2002
“Ni chicha ni limonada: The evolution of Arequipeño regionalism" American Anthropological Assn.
Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 1999 (I also organized the session “State-Local
Articulations in SW Peru”)
“Cash Cows and Fighting Bulls: Redefining Identity, Maintaining Control in Southwestern Peru”
Latin American Studies Assn. Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1998
“Ni chicha ni limonada: Rural Arequipa in southwest Peruvian regional identity” Latin American
Studies Assn. Meeting, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997
"Andean Aftermath: Paths of Conquest and Resistance" Linfield College Columbian Quincentennial
Series, 1993
"500 Years in the World System: What's to Celebrate for 1992? Alternative Readings of Peru in
Crisis" Linfield College Faculty Lecture, 1991
"Andean Bartering: Quaint Vestige or Basis for Sustained Development?" Linfield College Faculty
Lecture, 1987
"Andean Interzonal Barter: Fostering Sustainability through Altitudinal Complementarity," Soc. for
Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, U.C. Riverside, 1987
"Altitudinal Barter Exchange in the Central Andes," Northwest Anthropological Assn. Annual Meeting,
Salishan, Oregon, 1987
"Fighting Bulls of Southern Peru: Fostering Exchange through Ritual Consumption," Soc. for
Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, U. of Illinois, Urbana, 1986
"Peasant Class Differentiation in Southern Peru: Constraints Keep Cropping Up," Soc. for Economic
Anthropology Annual Meeting, Warren, Virginia, 1985
"Political Economy, Agrarian Reform and Two Peruvian Peasant Communities," Amer. Anthropological
Assn. Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1983
"The Political Economy of Ethnic Identity in Southwestern Peru," XI International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver, BC, 1983
3) Other
“Producing Anthropology as Discipline and Perspective”, AAA 2014 Roundtable, Chair and Co-Organizer
(with Faith Warner)
"Tying Study Abroad Programs into the Home Campus Curriculum," Internat'l. Studies Assn. Western
Regional Meeting, Denver, CO, 1984
"Study Abroad Programs in Latin America: Why So Few?", International Studies Assn. Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA, 1984
“Ecological Niche Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology,” Kroeber Anthropological Society XX Annual
Meeting, UC Berkeley, May 1976
BOOK AND VIDEO REVIEWS
I regularly review articles for several journals, includingAmerican Anthropologist, The Journal of Latin
American and CaribbeanAnthropology, Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Biological
Conservation, Anthropological Forum, Social Problems, Energy Research and Social Science,
Anthropological Quarterly.
Published reviews:
1993 Review of Hecht, Susanna & Alexander Cockburn, 1989 Fate of the Forest: Developers,
Destroyers and Saviors of the Amazon. Latin American Anthropology Review 4(1):12-13.
1991 Review of Speiser, E. & D. Irvine, 1990 Runa: Guardians of the Forest (Sachata Huihuac Runa)
(video). Latin American Anthropology Review 3(2).
1988 Review of Stein, William W., ed., 1985 Peruvian Contexts of Change. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction. American Anthropologist 90(2):456-457.
1984 Review of Harald O. Skar's The Warm Valley People: Duality and Land Reform among the
Indians of highland Peru. Ethnos 49:140-143.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED
National Science Foundation $50,000 (with David Murphy, 8/15) for workshop “Net Energy and the
Food/Energy/Water Nexus”, McMinnville, OR, January 2016
National Science Foundation summer workshop on Cultural Domain Analysis, Beaufort, NC, July 2015
Proof of Concept $9100 award for GIS in the Curriculum project from Northwest Academic Computing
Consortium, Tom Love & Jack Murphy, co-PIs, 5/03
Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Dept. of State, Man and the Biosphere program $50,000 grant for
research on secondary forest products harvesting, Olympic and Appalachian Biosphere Reserves
comparison; grant period 10/93-9/96
Co-PI, College of Forestry, Oregon State University Sustainable Forestry program $3000 grant for
research on sustainable harvesting of minor forest products; grant period 7/91-6/92
Fulbright Teaching/Research Scholar, Peru, for teaching and research on cultural ecology of protected
areas in Madre de Dios, 1989
HONORS & AWARDS
Member, E4 (Environment, Energy, Economics, Equity) Scholars Network, 2018-date
Chair, AAA (GAD) Federation of Small Anthropology Programs (FOSAP), 2014-date
Housley International Studies Award, Summer 2014
Co-Chair, Soc. for Economic Anthropology 2014 annual meeting on “Energy and Economy”
Allen & Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar Award, 2012-13
Chair (first), Environmental Studies program, Linfield College, 2002-2006
Chair, Sociology/Anthropology Dept., Linfield College, 1990-1997, 2007-2010
Co-recipient, with Ives Goddard, of the 2005 Joel Palmer Award of the Oregon Historical Society for
best work published the previous year in Oregon Historical Quarterly (4/04).
Invited participant, National Non-Timber Forest Products Policy workshop, Silver Falls St. Park, OR
9/03
Invited participant, National Non-Timber Forest Products Policy workshop, Gifford Pinchot Institute,
Washington, DC, 4/00
Invited commentator, Society for Human Ecology workshop “Winners and Losers: Emerging Ecological
Policy”, Oregon State Univ., 9/96
Invited participant in 1995/96 Fulbright Fellowship Review Panel, Washington, DC [declined]
Invited participant, Oregon State Univ. Seminar Series "Special Forest Products: Biodiversity Meets the
Marketplace", Fall, 1995
Invited participant, International Dimensions of Public Values of Natural Resources, US Forest Service,
Pacific NW Research Station Workshop, Univ. of Hawaii East/West Center, 5/94
Invited participant, Public Values of Natural Resources, US Forest Service, Pacific NW Research
Station Workshop, Hood River, OR, 9/91
Consulting geographic editor, West Publishing Co., 1995, 1988
Participant, Partners of the Americas Natural Resource Mngmt Seminar, Antigua, Guatemala, 1987
Invited participant in 1987/88 Fulbright Fellowship Review Panel, Washington, DC [declined]
Anthropology Section Chair, Oregon Academy of Sciences, 1994-1995
Shaw Historical Society award for best paper on Great Basin history, 1987
Boards of Directors Experience:
West Hills Christian School, 2004-2011
Oregon Field Ornithologists, 2000-2003
City of Durham Planning Commission, 2000-2003
Tigard Covenant Church, Pastoral Relations Council, 1991-1995
Friends of the Peruvian Rainforest, 1989-1999
Portland Audubon Society, 1986-1996
Other:
Frequent Guest Lectures in classes and for civic groups: e.g., Oregon State Univ. (3X), Portland State
Univ. (3X),Washington State Univ. (Vancouver),George Fox Univ., OMSI Science Pub, Tualatin History
Center, Portland-Corinto/Portland-Guadalajara Sister Cities, Portland Circulo Espanol, Powell’s Books
TravelSeries, Salem Public Library, Mazamas, Kiwanis (3X), Lions Club (3X), McMinnville Garden Club,
Yamhill County Historical Society, KATU Town Hall on global Warming (11 Sep 1988), Washington
County Peak Oil
COURSES TAUGHT
Global Political Economy; Economic Anthropology and Development
Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean
South America: Peoples and Cultures of the Least-Known Continent
Peoples and Cultures of the Andes (travel courses to Peru 1/88, 6/94, 7/98, and to Ecuador 6/05, 6/07)