Olga Francesca Linares | |
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| Born | November 10, 1936 David, Panama |
| Died | December 2, 2014 (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Fields | Anthropology, archaeology |
| Institutions | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
| Thesis | (1964) |
Olga Francesca Linares (November 10, 1936 – December 2, 2014; formerly Olga Linares de Sapir) was a Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, and senior staff scientist (emerita) at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, who supported much of her research throughout her career. She is well known for her work on the cultural ecology of Panama, and more recently in the Casamance region of Southern Senegal. She is also concerned with the social organization of agrarian systems as well as the relationship between "ecology, political economy, migration and the changing dynamics of food production among rural peoples living in tropical regions".[1]
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