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William Balée
Professor - Anthropology
Contact Info
wbalee@tulane.edu
Department Affiliation
Anthropology
- B.A., University of Florida, Anthropology, 1975
- M.A., Columbia University, Anthropology, 1979
- M.Phil., Columbia University, 1980
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984
- Professor, Tulane University, 1998-
- Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1991-1998
- Visiting Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1990
- Researcher, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil, 1988-1991
- Research Fellow, New York Botanical Garden, 1984-1988
Research & Teaching Specializations: Brazil; Anthropology; Ethnoecology; Ethnobotany
Related Experience- Director, Environmental Studies Program, Tulane University, 2007-2010
- Editorial Advisory Board, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2003-2008
- Academic Consultant and Translator, Our Peoples Exhibit, National Museum of the American Indian, sponsored by the Cultural Resource Center of the Smithsonian Institution, 2000-2004
- Chair, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1998- 2001
- Chair, Ecology Department, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil, 1988-1991
- World Wildlife Fund Grants, 1991-1993, 2003
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, “Agroforestry Complex in Southwest Amazonia,” 1993-1994
- Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation for Research and Training Grant on Comparative Ethnoecology in Eastern Amazonia, 1990-1992
- Ford Foundation Grant for Research on Transfer of Indigenous Technology, 1989-1990
- Research Fellow, Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Gardens, 1984-1988
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Ka’apor-Urubu (Tupi Guarani)
- French
- Brazil
- Bolivia
- Ecuador
- 2013. Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and their Landscapes. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press.
- 2009. “The meaning of “tree” in two different Tupi-Guarani languages from two different Neotropical forests.” Amazonica, Revista de Antropologia. 1 (1): 96-135.
- 2006. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands. Editor, with C. L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press.
- 2006. “The research program of historical ecology.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 35: 75-98.
- 2003. “Historical-ecological influences on the word for cacao in Ka’apor.” Anthropological Linguistics. 45 (3): 259-280.
- 1994. Footprints of the Forest: Ka’apor Ethnobotany- The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People. New York: Columbia University Press.
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: ANTH-3060-01: South American Indians, ANTH-3710-01: Historical Ecology of Amazonia, ANTH 4210: Seminar in Historical Ecology
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 8
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