Christine Wilson and the West Coast Nutritional Anthropologists, 1978-1989

This contribution to the Christine Wilson memorial volume is based upon personal recollections of the author and West Coast Nutritional Anthropologist Society documents in his files dated between the period of 1976 through 1989. Christine Wilson was the leading anthropologist on the West Coast who established the WCNA society and helped it flourish. Records of annual meetings and symposia sponsored by WCNA, document an especially active group of colleagues, many today with prominent academic and professional positions of local, regional, national, and international prominence. Christine Wilson influenced each of the colleagues mentioned in this memorial article with her kind words, editorial assistance, and deep understanding of the vast and diffuse literature of nutritional anthropology.