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Keynote Lecture 2016: William Balée

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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William Balée: SALSA President 2002-2005

  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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