William Balée

2.9k total citations
42 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William Balée is a scholar working on History, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Balée has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in History, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in William Balée's work include Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (18 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers) and Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (5 papers). William Balée is often cited by papers focused on Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (18 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers) and Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (5 papers). William Balée collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Finland. William Balée's co-authors include Ghillean Τ. Prance, Darrell A. Posey, Brian M. Boom, Robert L. Carneiro, David G. Campbell, Clark L. Erickson, Anthony Β. Anderson, Seymour Melman, Ronald Cohen and R. Brian Ferguson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Ecology and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

William Balée

38 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Balée United States	15	469	433	405	211	191	42	1.5k
Darrell A. Posey Brazil	22	681 1.5×	283 0.7×	478 1.2×	313 1.5×	192 1.0×	57	2.1k
André Braga Junqueira Brazil	19	474 1.0×	431 1.0×	268 0.7×	168 0.8×	56 0.3×	40	1.2k
Michael Heckenberger United States	18	555 1.2×	1.1k 2.6×	293 0.7×	209 1.0×	423 2.2×	39	2.0k
Morgan Schmidt United States	8	329 0.7×	522 1.2×	134 0.3×	132 0.6×	123 0.6×	11	911
Carolina Levis Brazil	13	328 0.7×	351 0.8×	174 0.4×	138 0.7×	47 0.2×	23	772
Judith Russell United States	7	261 0.6×	409 0.9×	88 0.2×	103 0.5×	106 0.6×	14	850
Antoinette WinklerPrins United States	17	268 0.6×	199 0.5×	463 1.1×	115 0.5×	53 0.3×	40	1.1k
Nivaldo Peroni Brazil	27	479 1.0×	262 0.6×	1.0k 2.5×	409 1.9×	30 0.2×	96	2.1k
Janis B. Alcorn United States	15	460 1.0×	65 0.2×	355 0.9×	256 1.2×	71 0.4×	21	1.2k
Bruna Franchetto Brazil	9	210 0.4×	367 0.8×	75 0.2×	72 0.3×	161 0.8×	35	867

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20 of 20 papers shown

Balée, William, et al.. (2023). Evidence for Landscape Transformation of Ridgetop Forests in Amazonian Ecuador. Latin American Antiquity. 34(4). 842–856. 6 indexed citations

Balée, William. (2023). Sowing the Forest. University of Alabama Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Balée, William, et al.. (2020). Ancient Transformation, Current Conservation: Traditional Forest Management on the Iriri River, Brazilian Amazonia. Human Ecology. 48(1). 1–15. 22 indexed citations

Lepofsky, Dana, Steve Wolverton, Eugene N. Anderson, et al.. (2018). Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018: A Dedication to Steve Weber. Journal of Ethnobiology. 38(4). 449–455. 2 indexed citations

Balée, William. (2016). The Study of Us. 19–46.

Balée, William, et al.. (2014). FLORESTAS ANTRÓPICAS NO ACRE: INVENTÁRIO FLORESTAL NO GEOGLIFO TRÊS VERTENTES, ACRELÂNDIA. Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia. 6(1). 140–140. 12 indexed citations

Balée, William. (2014). Charles Wagley on changes in Tupí-Guaraní kinship classifications. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas. 9(3). 645–659. 2 indexed citations

Balée, William. (2010). Contingent Diversity on Anthropic Landscapes. Diversity. 2(2). 163–181. 47 indexed citations

Balée, William & Clark L. Erickson. (2006). Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology. Columbia University Press eBooks. 1. 42 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (2006). Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. American Anthropologist. 108(1). 252–253. 4 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (2005). Book Review: Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity. Journal of Ethnobiology. 25(1). 148–150. 2 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (2003). The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil. Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. 1(2). 4 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (2003). Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier.. American Ethnologist. 30(1). 174–175. 3 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (2000). Elevating the Amazonian Landscape. 15(3). 28. 4 indexed citations

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Balée, William. (1993). Indigenous Transformation of Amazonian Forests : An Example from Maranhão, Brazil. L Homme. 33(126). 231–254. 53 indexed citations

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Balée, William, et al.. (1991). Similarity and Variation in Plant Names in Five Tupi-Guarani Languages (Eastern Amazonia). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 35(4). 209–262. 8 indexed citations

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Posey, Darrell A. & William Balée. (1989). Resource management in Amazonia: indigenous and folk strategies. 7. 155 indexed citations

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Boom, Brian M., Darrell A. Posey, & William Balée. (1989). Use of plant resources by the Chácobo.. 7. 78–96. 24 indexed citations

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Anderson, Anthony Β., Darrell A. Posey, & William Balée. (1989). Management of a tropical scrub savanna by the Gorotire Kayapó of Brazil.. 7. 159–173. 51 indexed citations

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Prance, Ghillean Τ., William Balée, Brian M. Boom, & Robert L. Carneiro. (1987). Quantitative Ethnobotany and the Case for Conservation in Ammonia*. Conservation Biology. 1(4). 296–310. 288 indexed citations

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