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Philip A Loring is an anthropologist and writer currently working as a post- doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Philip received his PhD in indigenous studies in 2010 and his MA in anthropology in 2007, both from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2008 Philip was selected as a Fulbright fellow but chose instead to pursue an opportunity studying with the Sonoran Institute in Tucson, AZ. His interests are food systems, sustainability and self-reliance, health, and nutrition, natural systems farming, intellectual property rights, and the anthropology of science and technology. He writes a monthly column on matters of food, health and nutrition for the Ester Republic, a local (Alaskan) periodical, also available online at http://www.thefireweed.com
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