Rebecca Zarger

Here is a link to my cv: zarger cv 2012

Selected Publications
2012     Wright Wendel, Heather E., Rebecca K. Zarger, and James R. Mihelcic
Accessibility and usability: Green space preferences, perceptions, and barriers in a rapidly urbanizing city in Latin America. Landscape and Urban Planning. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.06.003

2012      Baines, Kristina and R. K. Zarger. “Circles of Value: Integrating Maya Environmental Knowledge Into Belizean Schools,” In Helen Kopnina, Ed., Anthropology of Environmental Education. Nova Science Publishers.

2011          Zarger, Rebecca K. “Learning Ethnobiology: Creating Knowledge, Skills and Practice about the Living World,” In Ethnobiology, Edited by Eugene Anderson, Eugene Hunn, Deborah Pearsall, and Nancy Turner. Wiley and Sons Publishers.

2010          Zarger, Rebecca K. “Learning the Environment,” In The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood, David Lancy, John Bock, Suzanne Gaskins, Eds. pp 341-369. AltaMira Press.

2009          Zarger, Rebecca K. Mosaics of Maya Livelihoods: Readjusting to global and local food crises. Annals of Practice Vol. 32:130-151.

2008          Zarger, Rebecca K. School Garden Pedagogies: Understanding Childhood Landscapes. Anthropology News April, pp. 8-9. In Focus on Childhood.

2004          Zarger, R. K. and J. R. Stepp. “Persistence of Botanical Knowledge Among Tzeltal Maya Children.” Current Anthropology, vol. 45, no 3:413-418.

2003          J. R. Stepp, E. Jones, D. Casagrande, M. Pavao-Zuckerman, and R. K. Zarger. Unique and Remarkable Properties of Human Ecosystems. Conservation Ecology. Vol. 7, no. 3. Special Issue, Human Ecosystems: Toward the Integration of Anthropology and Ecosystem Sciences.

2002            Zarger, R. K. “Acquisition and Transmission of Subsistence Knowledge by Q’eqchi’ Maya in Belize,” in Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity, Edited by R. Stepp, F. Wyndham, and R. Zarger, pp 593-603. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

2002               Stepp, J. R., F. S. Wyndham, and R. K. Zarger, Eds. Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity. 720 pp. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

1998          Zarger, R. K. Conceptualizing Prehistoric Water Scarcity in the Central Maya Lowlands: the Influence of a Critical Resource on Settlement Patterns and Political Economy.  Journal of Ecological Anthropology, vol. 2, pp.69-84.

Works in Progress

Under review    Landscapes of Childhood: Growing Up Maya in Southern Belize. Monograph based over a decade of research with Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya children and families on environmental knowledge and practice in Toledo District, Belize.

In Prep      Prufer, Keith, Rebecca K. Zarger and Shoshaunna Parks, Eds. The Intersection Between Archaeology and Community in Latin America. Under contract with University of Colorado Press.

In preparation. Zarger, R. K., Lance Arney, Margeaux Chavez, Mabel Sabogal. “Cultivating Legacies of Urban Gardens Past: Examining a Youth Heritage Garden in Tampa, Florida.” submission prepared for Children, Youth  and Environments.

Under rev.  Zarger, Rebecca K.  “Displacement at home: The reorganization of space, resource access, and mobility after Hurricane Iris in southern Belize.” Under review at Human Organization. 

Reviews

2007          Zarger, Rebecca K. review of Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination, 2005 by Julie Cruikshank, University of British Columbia Press. Journal of Ecological Anthropology vol. 11:1.

2000          Zarger, R. K. Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America, F. Pinchon, J. Uquillas, and J. Frechione, Editors. Society and Natural Resources, 14:1.

Recent Presentations at Professional Meetings

2012          R.K. Zarger, F. Akiwumi, D. Lewis, G. Larsen, C. Adjei, S. Landry. “The Power of Perceptions: Hydroecological change and Water Redistribution in Tampa Bay.” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012.

2012          G. Larsen and R.K. Zarger. “’It Hurts My Heart:’ Wetland and Lake Destruction and Emotional Distress among Residents of Tampa Bay, Florida.” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012.

2011          R.K. Zarger, L. Arney, M. Chavez, M. Sabogal. “Cultivating Legacies of Urban Gardens Past: Examining a Youth Heritage Garden in Tampa, Florida.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 14-17, 2011, Montreal, Canada.

2011          D. B. Lewis, R. K. Zarger, S. M. Landry, F. A. Akiwumi, M. C. Rains, K. A. Nilsson, C. O. Adjei, S. J. Feit, G. M. Larsen, R. B. Perkerson, P. E. Thurman, T. L. Crisman, S. S. Bell, C. C. Trettin. “Urban development, power relations, and water redistribution as drivers of wetland change in the Tampa Bay Region Socioecosystem” Paper presented at the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX, August 2011.

2011          D. B. Lewis, R. K. Zarger, S. M. Landry, F. A. Akiwumi, M. C. Rains, T. L. Crisman, S. S. Bell, C. C. Trettin. “Urban development, power relations, and water redistribution as drivers of wetland change in the Tampa Bay Region Socioecosystem” Paper presented at session, Urban Long-term Research Areas (ULTRA): Opportunities for Comparison and Synthesis, Intl. Assn. for Landscape Ecology, Portland, OR, April 3-7, 2011.

2010          R. K. Zarger, “Landscapes worth fighting for: Hydroelectric dams, conservation, and social resistance in Southern Belize.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA November 17, 2010.

2010          R. K. Zarger, Panelist, “Saving the Lore 2.0” Discussion on Heritage Preservation in Global Context, organized by Alicia Ebbitt McGill. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA.

2009          R. K. Zarger, “Displacement and reorganization of space at home: long-term effects of an aperture of environmental change,” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2-6, 2009.

2009          R. K. Zarger, “Cat’s balls and Craboo: Maya children’s perceptions of flora and foodways,” Paper presented at the Society for Ethobiology annual meetings, Tulane University, March 27, 2009.

2009          Douglas Reeser* and Rebecca Zarger, “More than Improved Nutrition? Understanding the impacts of school garden programs on diet and homegardening in Belize,” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 21, 2009.

2009          R. K. Zarger, “Learning to value the present through the past: Cultural and environmental heritage in Maya communities in southern Belize,” Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 21, 2009.

2009               R. K. Zarger and Kristina Baines. “Development and resilience of complex socioeconomic systems: A theoretical model and case study from the Maya Lowlands.” Research poster presented at the USF College of Arts and Sciences Research Symposium, October 2009.

2008          R. K. Zarger, Shoshaunna Parks, and Keith Prufer, “Learning the Past and Valuing the Present: Education Initiatives at Uxbenka.” Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, Belize City, Belize, July 2-4, 2008.