Sowing the Forest A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes By William Balée The University of Alabama Press, 2023 William Balée is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His new collection, Sowing the Forest, is a companion volume to the award-winning...
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William Balée Co-organizer Tenth Sesquiannual Conference: Tulane, USA, 8-10 January 2016 See posts tagged William Balée See posts about SALSA Conference 2016 Check other SALSA Conference Organizers ...
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Keynote Lecture 2016 On Amazonian diversity, or old wine in new bottles X Sesquiannual Conference of SALSA William Balée, Professor, Anthropology, Tulane University In the past, questions about Amazonian diversity have focused on refuge theory, environmental gradients, and vicariance biogeography. Today, such questions have become sharply focused on whether...
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Interview with William Balée: Anthropology and the future of the Amazon Looking forward to the Tenth SALSA Conference in New Orleans next January, Lauren Dodaro, a graduate student at Tulane University, interviewed conference organizer William Balée about his career in anthropology, his work in the Amazon, and his involvement with...
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Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes By William Balée University of Alabama Press, 2013 Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical...
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William Balée Tulane University SALSA President 2002-2005 William Balée received his PhD from Columbia University in 1984. Field of Study: Cultural anthropology; Amazonia; historical ecology; ethnobiology. He has conducted fieldwork among Ka'apor, Guajá, Araweté, Tembé, Assurini do Xingu, and Sirionó societies. He teaches courses including cultural anthropology, ecological...
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