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William Balée Professor Department of Anthropology Tulane University

William Balée

Professor
504-862-3055
405 Dinwiddie Hall

Biography

Field of Study: Cultural anthropology; historical ecology; ethnobiology; Amazonia. Prof. Balée received his PhD from Columbia University in 1984. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork dealing with forest peoples in the Brazilian Amazon, Ecuadorian Amazon, and peninsular Malaysia. His courses include cultural anthropology, ecological anthropology, environmental anthropology, historical ecology, and ethnographic methods.