My main work over a period of almost 50 years has been in the fields of environmental anthropology, ethnobiology and cultural cognition, especially as this relates to the Moluccan islands of eastern Indonesia, and to folk classifications of the natural world. I have also undertaken work on the social organisation of inter-island trade, and on the social and ritual practices of the Nuaulu people of Seram.
My work in general has been recognized by election to a British Academy fellowship (2003), and in ethnobotany in particular by a Distinguished Economic Botanist award (2017) from the international Society for Economic Botany.
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