| Dr. Rea is a taxonomic ornithologist and ethnobiologist
whose work is focused on the greater Southwest. He received his Ph.D. from the University
of Arizona in 1977, and worked as
Curator of Birds and Mammals for the next 13 years at the San Diego Natural
History Museum. His papers deal with the taxonomy and distribution of birds,
avian paleontology, and zooarchaeology. His 1983
work, "Once a River: Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle
Gila," documents avifaunal changes in River Pima country. His work in ethnobiology includes two published volumes on the O'odham, a Southwest Uto-Aztecan group: "At the
Desert's Green Edge: An Ethnobotany of the Gila River
Pima," (1997) and "Folk Mammalogy of the Northern
Pimans," (1998). All three were
published by the University of Arizona
Press. The third in this series, "Wings in
the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of Northern Pimans,"
is about to go off to the press. Dr. Rea is a past president of the Society of Ethnobiology. |
