David Yetman
Office: Southwest Center Phone: 520-621-2484
David Yetman
Email:
 dyetman@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Arizona, 1972.
Affiliation:

Research Social Scientist, The Southwest Center

Interests:
 Ecology and rural development relating to southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, ethnobotany, border issues.
Classes:
 LAS 460/560 The State of Sonora

Current Research:

 Investigating the issues of the native materials (plant, animal, and mineral) of the indigenous people of Sonora, investigating historical human geography and ecological issues of Sonora.


Recent Major Publications:

2002

The Mayos of Northwest Mexico and Their Plants. In Juya Ania: The Natural World. University of California Press.
2002 The Guarij’os of the Sierra Madre: A Hidden People and Their Ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Press.
1998 (with A. Burquez) "Twenty-Seven: A Case Study in Ejido Privatization in Mexico." In Journal of Applied Research in Anthropology.
1998 Scattered Round Stones: The Political Economy of a Mayo Village in Sonora. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1998 (with P. S. Martin, 1st author, M. Fishbein, P. Jenkins, T. R. Van Devender, B. Wilson) Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico. University of Arizona Press, Tucson
1996 Sonora: An Intimate Geography. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1996 (with Alberto Burquez) "A Tale of Two Species: Speculation of the Presence of Pachycereus pringlei in the Sierra Libre, Sonora Mexico." In Desert Plants. Summer issue.
1996 "Pintado la huella de los guarij’os." In Revista de Investigación del Noreste VI(12):209-211.
1995 "Gazetteer of the Rio Mayo." In Journal of the Southwest 37:346-393.
1994

"Cows." In Journal of the Southwest 36:148-158.

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