John Rashford

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Education

• Ph.D., Anthropology, The Graduate School, City University of New York
  Dissertation:  "Roots and Fruits:  Social Class and Intercropping in Jamaica"
• M.A., Anthropology, The Graduate School, City University of New York
• B.A., Anthropology and Music, Friends World College

Research Interests

• Economic Anthropology
• Ecology
• Religion
• Cognitive Anthropology
• Ethnobotany
• Origin of Agriculture
• Social Stratification
• Anthropology of Time

Courses Taught

• ANTH 101: Introduction to Anthropology
• ANTH 109:  Special Topics in Anthropology
• ANTH 314 and Honors ANTH 314:  Antropological Perspectives on Time
• ANTH 316:  Ecological Anthropology
• ANTH 318:  Theories for the Origins of Agriculture
• ANTH 319:  Special Topics in Anthropology
• ANTH 327:  Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
• ANTH 356:  Anthropological Perspectives on Religion
• ANTH 362:  Social and Cultural Change

Honors and Awards

• Elected to membership in the Linnean Society of London, 2002
• Kenan Fellow, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kauai, Hawaii, 2001
• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2000-present
• Omiron Delta Kappa Distinguish Service Award, College of Charleston, 1989
• Elected to membership. Charleston of Charleston chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 1989

Selected Publications

Books

• Voeks and Rashford, J. H. (2012). African Ethnobotany in the Americas. New York, NY: Springer.

Book Chapters

• Rashford, J. H., (2012). Ficus Species that Serve as Candomble's Cosmic Tree. In: Bob Voeks and John Rashford eds., African Ethnobotany in the Americas (New York, NY: Springer Press).
• Rashford, J. H., (2012). A contributing author to a team-published article titled 'Multicultural Perspectives on Biocultural Collections'. In The Management of Biological Collections (Missouri Botanical Garden). 
• Rashford, J.H., (1998).  Human Influence on the Vegetation of Jamaica.  In:  David Barker, Carol Newby, Mike Morrissey eds., A Reader in Caribbean Geography (Kingston, Jamaica:  Ian Randle Publicshers).

Book Reviews

• Rashford, J. H. 2012. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Historical Geography, No. 40 (Forthcoming).
• Rashford, J. H. 2012. Bush Medicine of the Bahamas: A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island, including Pharmacology and Oral Histories by Jeffrey Holt McCormack, Kathleen Maier, and Patricia B. Wallens. HerbalGram (The Journal of the American Botanical Council), No. 93:73-74.
• Rashford, J. H. (2011). Common Medicinal Plants of Portland, Jamaica (2nd Edition). Austin, Summer and Michael B. Thomas, eds., Economic Botany, Vol. 65, No. 1 108-109.
• Rashford, J. H. (2010). Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. Barry W. Higman. Society of Ethnobiology (Online Journal), Volume 1:12-13.

Other Publications

• 2022 A Historically Contextulazie Account of the Baobab Trees (Adansonia digitata L.) of Tobago. The New York Botanical Garden. 
• 2022 Nyame's altar. A cultural history of the 'God tree' in Jamaica: The Cultural Value of Trees: Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation. (Jeffrey Wall, editor). Routledge Earthscan. London and New York. 5:76-87.