Nina L Etkin

Nina L. Etkin was a professor of anthropology and graduate chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was one of the two recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society for Economic Botany, and she was awarded the prestigious Hawaiai Regentsa Medal for Excellence in Research. Etkin was the author of Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food and Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications...See more

Nina L. Etkin was a professor of anthropology and graduate chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was one of the two recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society for Economic Botany, and she was awarded the prestigious Hawaiai Regentsa Medal for Excellence in Research. Etkin was the author of Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food and Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, both published by the University of Arizona Press. Professor Etkin passed away in 2009. See less