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DR. ROBERT VOEKS
Professor of Geography
Director Environmental Studies Graduate Program

EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.S. & B.S. Portand State University

RESEARCH AREAS
Cultural Ecology, Ethnobotany, Tropical Forest Ecology and Biogeography, African Diaspora, Brazil, Borneo.

CONTACT
Office hours: please make appointment
Humanities Building, H-407
Email: rvoeks@fullerton.edu
Office: (714) 278-3361

 

Selected Publications

Voeks, R. A. 2007. Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Mode of Subsistence: Between Foraging and Farming in Northern Borneo . In: P. Sercombe and B. Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the 21 st Century . Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, pp. 333-352.

Voeks, R. A. 2007. Medicinal Plant Erosion in Eastern Brazil : Are Women Reservoirs of Traditional Plant Knowledge? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (special gender and environment issue). 28 (1): 7-20.

Voeks, R. A. and Nyawa, S. 2006. Dusun Ethnobotany: Forest Knowledge and Nomenclature in Northern Borneo. Journal of Cultural Geography .23 (2): 1-31.

Voeks, R. A. 2004. Disturbance Pharmacopoeias: Medicine and Myth from the Humid Tropics. Annals, Association of American Geographers . 94: 868-888.

Voeks, R. A. and Leony, A. 2004. Forgetting the Forest: Assessing Medicinal Plant Erosion in Eastern Brazil. Economic Botany . 58: 294-306.

Voeks, R.A. and Rahmatian, M. 2004. The Providence of Nature: Valuing Ecosystem Services. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology ( Iran ) 1 (2): 159-171.

Carney, J. and Voeks, R. 2003. Landscape Legacies of the African Diaspora in Brazil. Progress in Human Geography 27: 68-81.

Voeks, R. A. 2002. Reproductive Ecology of the Piassava Palm ( Attalea funifera Mart.) of Bahia , Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (1): 121-136.

Voeks, R. A. and Nyawa, S. 2001. Healing Flora of the Brunei Dusun. Borneo Research Bulletin 32: 178-195.

Voeks, R. A. and Sercombe, P. 2000. The Scope of Hunter-Gatherer Ethnomedicine. Social Science & Medicine 51: 679-690.

Voeks, R. A. 2000. Candomblé Ethnobotany: African Medicinal Plant Classification in Brazil , In: Minnis, P. (ed), Ethnobotany: A Reader. Norman , OK : University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 148-171.

 
Book cover: Sacred Leaves R. Voeks. 1997. Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press.
National Geographic National Geographic Society News, April 2004, African Slaves Plant Knowledge Vanishing in Brazil.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/
04/0406_040406_brazilethnobotany.html

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