Publications

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Books

• Voeks, R. A. 1997.  Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Articles/Book Chapters

• Voeks, R. A. in review. Ethnobotany. In: Handbook of Biogeography. A. Millington, M. Blumler, G. MacDonald, and U. Schickhoff (eds). Sage Publications.

• Voeks, R. A. in review. Ecotourism and Ethnobotanical Erosion: A Possible Rescue Effect in Brazil’s Chapada Diamantina? Journal of Ecotourism.

• Pfeiffer, J. and Voeks, R. in review. Biological Invasions and Biocultural Diversity: Linking Ecological and Cultural Systems. Environmental Conservation.

• Voeks, R. A. forthcoming. “Traditions in Transition: African Diaspora Ethnobotany in Lowland South America”. In: M. Alexiades (ed), Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives. London: Berghahn.

• 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 21st 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.  2005. “The Penan Hunter-gatherers of Borneo”. In: J. Kaplan and B. Taylor (eds). Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Vol 2.  Bristol: Continuum Press, pp. 1266-1268.

• Voeks, R. A. 2005. “Candomble of Brazil”. In: J. Kaplan and B. Taylor (eds). Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.  Vol. 1. Bristol: Continuum Press, pp. 260-265.

• Voeks, R. A. 2004. “Disturbance Pharmacopoeias: Medicine and Myth from the Humid Tropics”. Annals, Association of American Geographers. 94 (4): 868-888.

•  Voeks, R. A. and Leony, A. 2004. “Forgetting the Forest: Assessing Medicinal Plant Erosion in Eastern Brazil”. Economic Botany. 58 (supplement): 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 Geography27: 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 Bulletin32: 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.

• Voeks, R.  A. 1999. “The Roots of Candomble”. Proceedings, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.  From the Macro to the Micro: Latin American Studies in a Global and Local Context 17: 113-125.

•  Voeks, R. A. 1998. “Environmental Risk and Ethnobotanical Knowledge: Foragers and Farmers in Northern Borneo”. In: Zimmerer, K. and Young, K. (eds), Nature’s Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp.307-326.

• Voeks, R. A. 1996. “Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference”. Economic Botany 50 (3): 354-373.

• Voeks, R. A. 1996. “Extraction and Tropical Rain Forest Conservation in Eastern Brazil”. In: D. Edwards, W. Booth, and S. Choy (eds), Tropical Rainforest Research--Current Issues. Netherlands: Kluwer Acad. Publ, pp.477-487.

• Voeks, R. A. 1995. “Candomblé Ethnobotany: African Medicinal Plant Classification in Brazil”.  Journal of Ethnobiology 15: 257-280.

• Voeks, R. A. 1993. “African Medicine and Magic in the Americas”. Geographical Review 83: 66-78.

• Voeks, R. A. 1990. “Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomblé”. Geographical Review 80(2): 118-131.

• Voeks, R. A. 1990. “Edaphic Limitation of a Tropical Rainforest Palm: The Role of Energy Allocation and Competition for Sunlight”.   Physical Geography 11: 154-171.

• Voeks, R. A. 1988. “The Brazilian Fiber Belt: Management and Harvest of the Piassava Fiber Palm (Attalea funifera)”. Advances in Economic Botany6: 262-275.

• Voeks, R. A. and S. G. da Vinha. 1988. “Fire Management of the Piassava Fiber Palm (Attalea funifera) in eastern Brazil”. Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers14:7-13.

• Voeks, R. A. 1988. “Changing Sexual Expression of a Brazilian Rain Forest Palm (Attalea funifera Mart.)”.  Biotropica 20: 107-113.