William Balée
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William Balée (born 1954) is a professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
About
Balée was born in
Career
Balée was appointed research fellow in 1984 by the New York Botanical Garden, collecting plants for an ethnobotany project sponsored by a Noble Grant. Later he took up a research position with the Museu Goeldi in Belém, Brazil.[citation needed]
His primary ethnographic work was with the
However, he is most renowned as a proponent and foremost expert of historical ecology (Balée 1998). Balée has proposed four interdependent postulates, which set historical ecology apart from other more traditional research programs. Basically summarized, these postulates are: (1) Humans have affected nearly all environments on Earth; (2) Humans do not have an innate propensity to decrease biotic and landscape diversity or to increase it; (3) Various types of societies impact their landscapes in dissimilar ways; (4) Human interactions with landscapes can be comprehended holistically.[citation needed]
Current Work
Currently he is working on issues of applied historical ecology.[citation needed]
Dr. Balée has won the Mary W. Klinger Book Award from the
See also
- Carl O. Sauer (geographer)
References
- ^ a b "Dr. William Balée, School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University". School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "Society of Ethnobiology". Twitter. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
Sources
- Balée, William. 2013. Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and their Landscapes. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- Balée, William 2012 Inside Cultures: A New Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
- Balee William. 2016. Inside Cultures. Second Edition. New York and London: Routledge.
- Balée, William (editor) 1998 Advances in Historical Ecology. Historical Ecology Series, New York: Columbia University Press.
- Balée, William 1994 Footprints of the Forest: Ka’apor Ethnobotany—the Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Balée, William (editor) 1989 Nomenclatural patterns in Ka'apor ethnobotany (Journal of Ethnobiology).