Zavaleta studied Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin completing a doctoral degree in 1976 and has spent the past 37 years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Te...ver maisZavaleta studied Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin completing a doctoral degree in 1976 and has spent the past 37 years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.
In the latter part of 2009 he published along with South Texas curandero, Alberto Salinas, Jr., Curandero Conversations: El Niño Fidencio, Shamanism and Healing Traditions of the Borderlands
In 2010, he published Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands: A Bilingual Resource Guide, the result of 40 years of study of medicinal plants on the border.
Zavaleta currently serves as Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies at the University of Texas at Brownsville.ver menos