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Thomas F. Love

Thomas F. Love Professor Emeritus of Anthropology


tlove@linfield.edu

Tom Love taught anthropology and related courses in environmental studies and Latin American studies at Linfield from 1983-2019. He continues occasional teaching and active research in the anthropology of post-carbon transition.

Education

  • BA, Columbia University
  • MA, University of California, Davis
  • MS, University of California, Davis
  • Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Publications:

  • Two academic presses recently jointly published Love's "Republica Independiente de Arequipa", a Spanish language edition of his 2017 monograph:
  • Love, Thomas, 2020: República Independiente de Arequipa: La creación de una cultura regional en los Andes. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú/Arequipa: Universidad Católica Santa Maria.
  • Love, Thomas, 2017, The Independent Republic of Arequipa: Making Regional Culture in the Andes. Univ. of Texas Press.
  • Love, Thomas and David Murphy, 2016: Implications of Net Energy for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus; An NSF-funded workshop at Linfield College, January 2016. Award Number: 1541988.
  • Love, Thomas and Cindy Isenhour, 2016: Energy and Economy: Re-cognizing High Energy Modernity as a Historical Period. IN Love and Isenhour, eds., Economic Anthropology, 3:1 “Energy and Economy” (selected papers from the 2014 meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology that we organized).
  • Strauss, Sarah, Stephanie Rupp and Thomas Love, eds. 2013: Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press (reissued 2016 Routledge Press).
  • Love, Thomas, 2013: "And we had fun, fun, fun...till we went over the Net Energy Cliff: Cultural Aspects of the Twilight of the Petroleum Age" Linfield College Faculty Lecture.
  • Love, Thomas and Garwood, Anna, 2011: “Wind, sun and water: Complexities of alternative energy development in rural northern Peru.” Rural Society 20:294-307.
  • Love, Thomas, 2008: “Anthropology and the fossil fuel era” Anthropology Today 24(2), pp. 3-4.
  • Love, Thomas, Jones, Eric and Liegel, Leon, 1998: “Valuing the Temperate Rainforest: Wild Mushrooming on the Olympic Peninsula Biosphere Reserve.” Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, Special Report No. 9, pp. 16-25.
  • Love, Thomas, 1989: "Limits to the Articulation of Modes of Production: The Southwestern Peru Region" In Orlove, B.S., M. Foley and T. Love, eds. State, Capital and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes. Boulder, CO: Westview Pr., pp. 147-179.
  • Goddard, Ives and Love, Thomas, 2004" “Oregon, the Beautiful”. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(2):238-259[3]