Olga F. Linares

Who is Olga F. Linares?

Olga Francesca Linares is a Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, and senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who have supported much of her research throughout her career. She is well known for her work on the cultural ecology of Panama, and more recently in the Casamance region of Southern Senegal. She is also concerned with the social organization of agrarian systems as well as the relationship between "ecology, political economy, migration and the changing dynamics of food production among rural peoples living in tropical regions".