Episode 21: Local Knowledge Systems

# AnthroAlert ## Episode 21: Local Knowledge Systems Originally aired 20 October 2017 on bullsradio.org Anthony Tricarico returns to discuss the creation of local knowledge systems and how anthropologists engage with communities to develop effective partnerships. Anthony Tricarico is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research focuses broadly on complex, dynamic coupled natural-human systems. For his dissertation, Anthony is researching how intensive agricultural practices from the pre-Columbian period through present day have increased landscape instability and soil quality loss in Antigua, West Indies. Specifically, his research looks at the commodification of sugar during the historic period and how socioeconomic and environmental legacies of the past help shape contemporary landscapes. Anthony applies various geoarchaeological, anthropological, and historic methods to analyze the challenges contemporary Antiguan farmers are facing today due to human-induced and natural environmental degradation. ## Podcast link ## Video link ## Album art photo credit: Oliver Thompson https://flic.kr/p/9zVPYB CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ## Intro music credit: There's A Better WAY ! by Loveshadow http://ccmixter.org/files/Loveshadow/34402 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.