Background
Daniel Wynne Gade was born on September 28, 1936, in Niagara Falls, New York, United States. He was the son of Hugo W. and Evelyn (Jagow) Gade.
1700 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso, IN 46383, United States
Valparaiso University where Daniel Gade received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where Daniel Gade received his Master of Arts degree.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States
The University of Wisconsin-Madison where Daniel Gade received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
(Man's symbiosis with plants is the most fundamental mater...)
Man's symbiosis with plants is the most fundamental material fact of human life on the earth. Geographers, as well as botanists, anthropologists, and other scientists, have long been interested in this aspect of the man-nature theme. This study is the geography of plant resources in an important Andean valley having great environmental diversity and a cultural conÂstant, in so far as a non-literate, Quechua-speaking peasantry dominates through throughout the zone.
https://www.amazon.com/Plants-Land-Vilcanota-Valley-Biogeographica/dp/9401019630
1975
(Madagascar presents a lucid view of an intriguing, simple...)
Madagascar presents a lucid view of an intriguing, simple, and struggling country that is unique in many respects. Gade introduces the reader first to the natural landscape of Madagascar. Next, the major cultural sources and traditions of Madagascar are identified, and these are followed by a review of modern Malagasy society and economy. The book concludes with a forward-looking assessment of the current and near-future status of the island country as a member of the world community of nations.
https://www.amazon.com/Madagascar-Madagasikara-American-Geographical-Society/dp/0939923602/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
1996
(Nature and Culture in the Andes reveals the intimate and ...)
Nature and Culture in the Andes reveals the intimate and unexpected relationships of plants, animals, and people in Western South America. Throughout his quest to understand this geographically diverse region Daniel Gade integrates the imagination of an expert geographer with the research skills of a natural and cultural historian. He presents a holistic vision of the Andes, and of the world, that broadens the perspective achieved solely by objective scientific methods of inquiry.
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Culture-Andes-Daniel-Gade/dp/0299161242
1999
(This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving ...)
This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavors on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. Combining the empirical with the philosophical and reflexive, it describes how the power of intrinsic motivation and the thread of a romantic consciousness blend with the joy of polymathic exploration.
https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-Inquiry-Geographical-Imagination-Daniel/dp/1433115417
2011
(This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in te...)
This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world.
https://www.amazon.com/Spell-Urubamba-Anthropogeographical-Essays-Andean/dp/3319208489
2015
Daniel Wynne Gade was born on September 28, 1936, in Niagara Falls, New York, United States. He was the son of Hugo W. and Evelyn (Jagow) Gade.
Daniel Gade graduated from high school in La Porte, Indiana, in 1954. He then began his studies at Valparaiso University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. The next year he obtained a Master of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. One year later, he got a Master of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1967.
Daniel Gade began his teaching career in 1965 as a visiting instructor at the University of Oregon. After a year in Oregon, he joined the University of Vermont in 1966 as an assistant professor. He taught primarily courses in cultural geography, cultural ecology, and geography of Latin America. In 1970, he became an associate professor and, in 1979, was made a professor of geography. For a decade, from 1977 till 1987, he was chair of the Latin American Studies Program. He also served as director of the Vermont Overseas Study Program in Nice, France, in 1979-1980. In his last years at the university in 1998-1999, he was a scholar for social sciences and humanities. In 1999, Gade became a professor emeritus.
Gade's teaching activity also included the work as a visiting associate professor at the University of Oregon in 1975, a fellow of the Center for Latin-American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, a fellow of the Latin American Studies Center at Cornell University in 1987, a fellow of the John Carter Brown Library in 1988, and guest speaker at other institutions. He served as a member of the board of editors of Cambridge History and Culture of Human Nutrition Project and as a member of the board of advisors of Coordinadora de Investigación y Desarrollo de Camelidos Sudamericanos in Lima, Peru. He conducted field studies throughout Latin America and in Europe and Africa and consulted Acorn Associates (television producers).
Daniel Gade authored five books and close to 150 polished articles and chapters in a wide variety of scholarly journals including Journal of Historical Geography, Environmental Conservation, Human Ecology, Economic Botany, Professional Geographer, Geographical Review, and Explorers Journal. His work manifested an unwavering love of fieldwork and an unusually diverse intellectual curiosity about the world.
Among his topics were the verticality of Peruvian Indian agriculture, the concept of nature and culture, cultural history of coca leaf, manioc ecology, lightning and religion, Madagascar's deforestation problem, the shaman as an archetype, appellation controlee of French wine, ethnobotany, and Nazi ideology, hyena predation in Ethiopia, synanthropy of the American crow and a personal reflection on his experience in ethnobiology. The larger theme underlying much of his work was how people, biota and the environment mesh in a cultural-historical framework. He also prepared more than fifty book reviews.
The books Gade contributed to are Applied Geography: Issues, Questions, and Concerns (1989), Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Identity in the High Provinces of Southern Peru (1994), Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (1997), The Cambridge World History of Food and Nutrition (2000), and Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Solutions (2002). During his career, he was also an editor, coeditor, and joint editor of Vermont Geographer, an editor of the special issue of Journal of Cultural Geography, a member of the editorial board of Annals of the Association of American Geographers, a member of the executive committee of Espacio y Desarrollo, and a translator of journal articles and abstracts into English.
(This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in te...)
2015(This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving ...)
2011(Nature and Culture in the Andes reveals the intimate and ...)
1999(Madagascar presents a lucid view of an intriguing, simple...)
1996(Man's symbiosis with plants is the most fundamental mater...)
1975
Quotations:
"Inspiration for the subjects that have fascinated me comes from three sources: my broad reading in several disciplines, travel observations, and influences that stretch from childhood to exemplars of scholars I have known as a student or friend."
"I write as a way of pursuing my multi-faceted curiosity about the world in space and time. First I break a subject into an intellectually manageable piece of knowledge. Then I create a file on it and add anything related to it from my reading and thinking over a period of years. A surge of questions occurs to me, and I then feel an inner compulsion to pursue the surge to its conclusion."
Daniel Gade was a member of the Association of American Geographers, American Geographical Society, Society for Ethnobiology, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, and Societat Catalana de Geografia. He was a corresponding member of Sociedad Geográfica de Lima.
Quotes from others about the person
"Dan had the greatest breadth of interests of anyone that I knew on campus." - Garrison Nelson
"Daniel was an amazing individual, whom I had the privilege to know personally starting about 20 years ago. He was always active intellectually and was more engaged in scholarly research and publication in "retirement" than are most full-time professors. Yet he was a humble man, never boastful, and always supportive of colleagues." - Steve Driever
"Dan was truly one of the good guys. He was a great field geographer, thinker, and writer." - Bill Doolittle
"He was magnificent in the classroom and in the field, and he was flawless as an adviser, embodying the renowned Sauerian tradition of geography that he loved." - Peter Herlihy
"He was a genius at finding obscure topics, researching them, and writing them up in such a way that he captivated other scholars and inspired new students." - Ray Bromley
Daniel Gade married Mary Scott Killgore on August 28, 1965. The marriage produced one child, Christopher Pierre.