A point to ponder for all University Anthropology Majors?

Anthropological fieldwork can be more than merely dangerous.

It can be lethal.

University of Vermont Professor James Petersen, age 51, was shot to death on the night of Saturday, August 13, 2005, in Brazil.

He had previously known of the work of Florida University's Michael J. Heckenberger.

It was Heckenbeger's provocative book, Ecology of Power, telling about massive Amazonian land management techniques of the Xinguano people, that we reviewed on June 12, 2006, on this blog.

The story of Professor Petersen's violent death, plus details of the fascinating and revolutionary anthropological work that apparently he, too, along with his ex-student Professor Heckenberger, was involved in down in Brazil, can be accessed below.

In Petersen's own case, his death occurred 1,650 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20050815/news01/508150305/1009/news05

Professor Heckenberger's background/vita:

www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mheckenb/vita.htm

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