Obituary

David Price, an editor for the College of Engineering, died April 21 at his home in Ithaca. He was 59.

Price received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He did his field work with the Huichol Indians of Mexico and the Nambiquara of western Brazil and taught anthropology at Hamilton College and at the University of Brasilia and the University of Campinas in Brazil. For several years he was employed by the Brazilian Indian Service (FUNAI) as an agent on behalf of the Nambiquara, for whom he established a land reserve.

The author of many scholarly publications in anthropology and linguistics, he served as a consultant to the World Bank for a development project in Brazil in 1980. This experience was recounted in his book Before the Bulldozer: the Nambiquara Indians and the World Bank.

In 1978 he joined Cornell as a graphic artist, becoming an editor in the publications department of the College of Engineering in 1982. He also was affiliated with the Latin American Studies Program and the Center for the Environment, and he continued to produce academic papers. An avid amateur mycologist, he often assisted at Professor Richard Korf's mushroom identification laboratory.

In recent years his scholarly attention turned toward human energy use and the notion of carrying capacity, and he had been named editor of the journal "Population and Environment" when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Anne Carson, a librarian with the Law School, and a daughter, Catherine.

There will be a memorial service Sunday, May 16, at 1:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House on campus. Donations may be made to the Finger Lakes Land Trust or to Hospicare of Ithaca.