Christine Wilson and the West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists, 1978–1989

Abstract

This contribution to the Christine Wilson memorial volume is based upon personal recollections of the author and West Coast Nutritional Anthropologist Society documents in his files dated between the period of 1976 through 1989. Christine Wilson was the leading anthropologist on the West Coast who established the WCNA society and helped it flourish. Records of annual meetings and symposia sponsored by WCNA, document an especially active group of colleagues, many today with prominent academic and professional positions of local, regional, national, and international prominence. Christine Wilson influenced each of the colleagues mentioned in this memorial article with her kind words, editorial assistance, and deep understanding of the vast and diffuse literature of nutritional anthropology.

Keywords:

• anthropology
• geography
• history
• nutrition

Photocopies of all documents identified and used in support of the content of this article, are available from the author.

Notes

1. Document entitled: Food Beliefs and Practices of Malay Fishermen. An Ethnographic Study of Diet on the East Coast of Malaya. Resume of a Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition by Christine S. Wilson, dated June, 1970.

2. Newsletter. West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists. Occasional Missive #5, dated January, 1977.

3. Letter from R. E. Taylor, Southwestern Anthropological Association, dated February 22, 1977.

4. Program: First Annual Meeting, West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists. University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, dated May 14, 1977.

5. Letter from Sylvia Vane, Southwestern Anthropological Association, dated January 19, 1978.

6. Letter from Sylvia Vane, Southwestern Anthropological Association, dated February 19, 1978.

7. Program: Southwestern Anthropological Association. 1978 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 23–25, 1978, pages 33 and 39.

8. Document entitled: Nutrition Conference. Aims and Methods (undated).

9. Document entitled: Participants (undated).

10. Program: Fourth Annual Meeting, West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists. University of California, Davis, dated May 3, 1980.

11. Program: Politics, Propaganda, Symbols and Food. A Conference at Mills College, Oakland, California, dated November 20, 1980.

12. Newsletter. West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists, dated Winter, 1980–1981. Prepared by WCNA correspondent, Dr. Angela Little.

13. Program: Fifth Annual Meeting, West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists. University of California, Davis, dated May 9, 1981.

14. Program. XIIth International Congress of Nutrition, August 16–21, 1981, San Diego, California, USA, p. 59.

15. Program. XIIth International Congress of Nutrition, August 16–21, 1981, San Diego, California, USA, p. 32.

16. Newsletter. West Coast Network for Nutrition and Anthropology. Winter, 1982.

17. Program: Seventh Annual Meeting, West Coast Network for Nutrition and Anthropology. University of California, Davis, dated April 30, 1983.

18. Newsletter. West Coast Network for Nutrition and Anthropology. Volume. 5, number 4, dated June 1986.

19. Announcement. Assessment of Nutrition. Status and Risk. Anthropological and Nutritional Techniques. Two-Day Workshop in Berkeley [California], October 4–5, 1986.

20. Letter from Jin Soon Ju, President, 14^thInternational Congress of Nutrition, and Sook He Kim, General Secretary, The Organizing Committee of the 14^thInternational Congress of Nutrition, dated November 19, 1989.

21. Letter from Sook He Kim, General Secretary, The Organizing Committee of the 14^thInternational Congress of Nutrition, dated June 30, 1989.

22. Program. Nutrition and Anthropology. Tuesday, August 22, 1989. Program. The 14^thInternational Congress of Nutrition. August 20–25, 1989, Seoul, Korea, p. 45.