William Balée | Academic Influence

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William Balée

Anthropology

#255

World Rank

#367

Historical Rank

#141

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#21

World Rank

#32

Historical Rank

#11

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, William Balée is a professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. About Balée was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and educated at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he received a B.A. in Anthropology before moving on to Columbia University in New York City where he earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology .

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William Balée's Published Works

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Published Works

The Research Program of Historical Ecology (2006) (408)
Quantitative Ethnobotany and the Case for Conservation in Ammonia (1987) (384)
Resource management in Amazonia: indigenous and folk strategies (1989) (284)
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands (2006) (272)
Amazonian Dark Earths (2003) (208)
Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes (2013) (136)
Advances in Historical Ecology (2003) (122)
Evidence for the successional status of liana forest (Xingu River Basin, Amazonian Brazil). (1990) (97)
Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology (2006) (93)
Management of a tropical scrub savanna by the Gorotire Kayapó of Brazil. (1989) (87)
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology (2006) (82)
The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia (2006) (78)
Indigenous Transformation of Amazonian Forests : An Example from Maranhão, Brazil (1993) (75)
Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems (2021) (53)
Antiquity of Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge in Amazonia: The Tupi-Guarani Family and Time (2000) (52)
Contingent Diversity on Anthropic Landscapes (2010) (51)
Ka'apor ritual hunting (1985) (45)
Use of plant resources by the Chácobo. (1989) (41)
Schmid's Crotchety Sermon #2 (Actually Probably #227 or so)@@@Footprints of the Forest: Ka 'apor ethnobotany--The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People (1994) (33)
Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. (2003) (33)
The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil (2003) (18)
Human impact on the abundance of useful species in a protected area of the Brazilian Cerrado by people perception and biological data (2019) (17)
Native Views of the Environment in Amazonia (2003) (15)
Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (2005) (15)
Ancient Transformation, Current Conservation: Traditional Forest Management on the Iriri River, Brazilian Amazonia (2020) (13)
NOMENCLATURAL PATTERNS IN KA'APOR ETHNOBOTANY (1989) (11)
Historical Ecology and the Explanation of Diversity: Amazonian Case Studies (2014) (10)
Historical-ecological influences on the word for cacao in Ka'apor (2003) (9)
Brief Review of Historical Ecology (2018) (9)
Cultural Forests of the Amazon (2013) (8)
THE FOUR-FIELD MODEL OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES (2016) (7)
THE MEANING OF “TREE” IN TWO DIFFERENT TUPÍ-GUARANÍ LANGUAGES FROM TWO DIFFERENT NEOTROPICAL FORESTS (2016) (7)
Elevating the Amazonian Landscape (2000) (6)
Resin classification by the Ka'apor Indians (1990) (6)
Landscape Transformation and Language Change: A Case Study in Amazonian Historical Ecology (2009) (5)
Freelisting as a Tool for Assessing Cognitive Realities of Landscape Transformation (2015) (5)
Charles Wagley on changes in Tupí-Guaraní kinship classifications (2014) (5)
The geoglyph sites of Acre, Brazil: 10 000-year-old land-use practices and climate change in Amazonia (2020) (4)
Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018: A Dedication to Steve Weber (2018) (3)
Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge. Paul Sillitoe , Alan Bicker , Johan Pottier (2003) (3)
Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola (2014) (3)
Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives (2006) (3)
Contemporary Theory and Method (2021) (1)
Writing South American Archaeology After Steward: A Review Essay (2010) (1)
Prophets of Agroforestry: Guaraní Communities and Commercial Gathering, by Richard K. Reed Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Reviewed by William Balée (1997) (1)
Traditional Knowledge of Trees and Cultivated Plants in a Coastal Municipallity in Sao Paulo State, Brazil (2018) (1)
DARREL ADDISON POSEY (1947-2001) (2010) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2012) (0)
Evidence for Landscape Transformation of Ridgetop Forests in Amazonian Ecuador (2023) (0)
Marcus Byrne and Helen Lunn, Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in our Changing World (2022) (0)
Colonialism and the World System (2021) (0)
Applications of Cultural Anthropology (2021) (0)
What Makes Us Human (2021) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayãpí. Alan Tormaid Campbell. (1991) (0)
Foreword:: A Prelude to Island Historical Ecology (2018) (0)
The Study of Us (2016) (0)
The Ecology of the Barí: Rainforest Horticulturalists of South America by Stephen Beckerman and Roberto Lizarralde Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. 291 pp. (2015) (0)
Politics and Power (2021) (0)
Yanomami: A Forest People (2002) (0)
Historical Ecology of Societal Nucleation and Collapse (2021) (0)
Inside Cultures (2021) (0)
Introducing Religion and Nature Religion and Nature Conundrums the Evolution of Interest in Religion and Nature Religion and Nature from Seventeenth-century Europe to the Environmental Age (0)
Applied Historical Ecology (2020) (0)
Social Organisation in Kin-Based Societies (2021) (0)
The Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán. Vols. 1 and 2. Dennis Breedlove and Robert Laughlin (1996) (0)
Ancient Transformation, Current Conservation: Traditional Forest Management on the Iriri River, Brazilian Amazonia (2020) (0)
Concluding Remarks (2021) (0)
Globalisation and Indigeneity (2021) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Marriage Practices in Lowland South America. Kenneth M. Kensinger, ed (1985) (0)
Ecology, Landscape and Culture (2021) (0)
Where Anthropology Comes From (2016) (0)
Cultural Variation (2021) (0)
Book Review: Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (2005) (0)
Forest Tree Inventories (2020) (0)
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers: Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana by Thomas Henfrey (review) (2020) (0)
The Ka apor Indian Wars of Lower Amazonia, Ca. 1825-1928 (2019) (0)
Collapse and Change (2021) (0)

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