Nuaulu ethnobotanical cognition and knowledge

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H.L. Soselisa and R. Ellen (2024). ‘Multivocal responses to conservation in Maluku province, Indonesia: biocultural diversity, protest and management in a zone of ecological transition” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12554

Ellen, R. (2024). ‘Plant identification and ethnoscience in the work of Rumphius’, History of Anthropology Review 48: https://histanthro.org/notes/plant-identification-and-ethnoscience/.

Ellen, R. (2023). ‘Identifying plants as a process of cultural cognition: comparing knowledge production and communities of practice in modern botanical science and Nuaulu Ethnobotany’, Journal of Ethnobiology 43(3), 208–218. https://doi.org/10.1177/02780771231194153

Ellen, R. (2022). How Nuaulu sago palms feature in debates around the measurement of plant use and valuation. In The cultural value of trees: folk value and biocultural conservation (ed.) J. Wall, 177-190. London and New York: Routledge Earthscan.

Ellen, R. (2021). Nuaulu use and management of culturally salient polymorphisms in Codiaeum variegatum: explaining the biocultural dimensions of leaf variegation in a Southeast Asian ornamental. Journal of Ethnobiology 41 (2). pp. 229-246.  

Ellen, R. (2021). Thinking through nostalgia in anthropologies of the environment and ethnographies of landscape. In Ecological nostalgias: memory, affect and creativity in times of ecological upheavals (eds) O. Angé and D. Berliner, 17-38. Oxford: Berghahn.

Ellen, R. (2021). Nature wars: essays around a contested concept. New York, Oxford: Berghahn.

Ellen, R. (2020). The Nuaulu world of plants: ethnobotanical cognition, knowledge and practice among a people of Seram, eastern Indonesia. [Royal Anthropological Institute Monograph Series 3] Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. [‘Recipient of the 2022 Mary W. Klinger prize from the Society for Economic Botany’]

Ellen, R. (2020). Cultivar diversity and management as traditional environmental knowledge. In The Routledge handbook of indigenous environmental knowledge (eds) T.F. Thornton, and S.A. Bhagwat, 46-56. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.

Ellen, R. (2019). Ritual, landscapes of exchange, and the domestication of Canarium: a Seram     case study. Asian Perspectives 58 (4), 261-86.

Ellen, R. (2019). Transmitting symbolic concepts from the perspective of cultural cognition – the acquisition and transfer of folk-biological knowledgeIn Finding, inheriting or borrowing? The construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the middle ages, eds., J. Althoff, D. Berrens and T. Pommerening. [Mainz Historical Cultural Sciences, 39]. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 41-70.

Ellen, R. (2018). Comment on ‘Revamping the metaphysics of ethnobiological classification’ by David Ludwig. Current Anthropology 59 (4), 424-426.

Ellen, R. (2017). Contingency and adaptation over five decades in Nuaulu forest-based plant knowledge, in Indigenous knowledge: enhancing its contribution to natural resource management, ed. P. Sillitoe. Wallingford: CAB International, 28-39.