Glenn Davis Stone

Glenn Davis Stone is an environmental anthropologist. His research and writing focus mainly on ecological, political, and cultural aspects of food and agriculture; on sustainability; and on crop biotechnology and GMO’s.

He has recently been president of the Anthropology & Environment Society and a Guggenheim Fellow.

He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St Louis.

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  • Archaeology, trincheras site, Tucson Basin.
  • “Gam’lang” rice harvesting blade. Ifugao Province, Philippines.
  • Rice field, Bali.
  • Ethnography: Tiv chief, Plateau State, Nigeria.
  • Sunrise in the Cordillera. Kiangan, Ifugao, Luzon, Philippines.
  • Clam harvester, Mekong Delta, Viet Nam.
  • Village India Program student learns to plow. Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • Zulu family harvesting Bt cotton. Makathini Flats, KwaZulu-Natal, So Africa.
  • Family farm, Winnebago Co. Wisconsin.
  • Anti-GMO protest encampment. Dorset, England.
  • Ethnography, village in Telangana, India.
  • Fulani girl, Namu gari, Plateau State, Nigeria.
  • Lambadi girls dance, Kalleda village, Warangal Dist, Telangana, India.
  • Organic vegetable growers, Cork, Ireland.
  • Kofyar kids help map a compound. Plateau State, Nigeria.
  • Rice terraces, Nagacadan, Ifugao, Philippines.
  • Rice transplanter, Hachirogata, Japan. See “Agriculture as Spectacle”.
  • Hanging coffins, Lumiang cave, Sagada, Philippines
  • Pomelo vendor, Mekong River, Viet Nam.
  • Excavations at Mortland Island. Calhoun Co., Illinois.
  • Young Tiv mother plants field while baby sleeps. Plateau State, Nigeria. See “Predatory Sedentism: Intimidation and Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna”.
  • Plateau State, Nigeria, 1984. We rented the empty compound of the man who was killed in this accident and the van sat out behind out hut. Momento mori.
  • A genetically modified tobacco plant begins to grow out of a mass of callus cells. From work undertaken at the Danforth Plant Science Center under an NSF Scholar’s Training Grant.
  • Autorick driver, Hyderabad, India.
  • An early adopter of Bt cotton hand-waters the plants. Warangal, AP, India. On “cultivation bias” see “Field vs Farm in Warangal” and “Constructing Facts: Bt Cotton Narratives in India”.
  • Fabulous pig on a small farm in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam.
  • Anti-GMO protest encampment. Dorset, England.