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Ellen, R.F. (2013) ‘These rude implements’: competing claims for authenticity in the Eolithic controversy. Anthropology Quarterly [Special Collection Laying claim to authenticity: anthropological dilemmas, ed. D.Theodossopoulos] , 86 (2). pp. 445-480. ISSN 0003-5491. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Soselisa, Hermien L. and Wulandari, Asri Peni (2012) The biocultural history of Manihot esculenta in the Moluccan islands of eastern Indonesia: assessing evidence for the movement and selection of cassava germplasm. Journal of Ethnobiology, 32 (2). pp. 157-184. ISSN 0278-0771. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Soselisa, Hermien L. (2012) A comparative study of the socio-ecological concomitants of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz): diversity, local knowledge and management in eastern Indonesia. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 10 . pp. 15-35. ISSN 1547-3465.

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Ellen, R.F. and Latinis, D.K. (2012) Ceramic sago ovens and the history of regional trading patterns in eastern Indonesia and the Papuan coast. Indonesia and the Malay World, 40 (116). pp. 20-38. ISSN 1363-9811. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2012) Studies of swidden agriculture in Southeast Asia since 1960: an overview and commentary on recent research and sytheses. Asia Pacific World, 3 (1). pp. 18-38. ISSN 2042-6143. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Platten, S. J. (2011) The social life of seeds: the role of networks of relationships in the dispersal and cultural selection of plant germplasm. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17 (3). pp. 563-584. ISSN 1359-0987. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2011) The place of the eolithic controversy in the anthropology of Alfred Russel Wallace. The Linnean, 27 (1). pp. 22-33. ISSN 0950-1096. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Muthana, Angela (2011) Classifying 'eoliths': how cultural cognition featured in arguments surrounding claims for the earliest human artefacts as these developed between 1880 and 1900. Journal of Cognition and Culture , 10 (3-4). pp. 341-375. ISSN 1567-7095. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2011) The eolith debate, evolutionist anthropology and the Oxford connection between 1880 and 1940. History and Anthropology, 22 (3). pp. 277-306. ISSN 0275-7206. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Soemarwoto, Rini (2010) Gold mining and changing perceptions of risk in West Java. Human Organization, 69 (3). pp. 233-241. ISSN 0018-7259. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2010) Theories in anthropology and 'anthropological theory'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (2). pp. 387-404. ISSN 1359-0987. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) A modular approach to understanding the transmission of technical knowledge: Nuaulu basket-making from Seram, eastern Indonesia. Journal of Material Culture, 14 (2). pp. 243-277. ISSN 1359-1835. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) The Nuaulu kahuae. Saka Mese: Surat Berita-berita Perkumpulan anak-anak Lounusa Maatita di Belanda, 4 (2). pp. 12-13. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) Ethnomycology among the Nuaulu of the Moluccas: putting Berlin's 'General Principles' of Ethnobiological Classification to the test. Economic Botany, 62 (3). pp. 483-496. ISSN 0013-0001. Access to this publication is restricted.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) Distribution and variation in sago extraction equipment: convergent and secondary technologies in island southeast Asia. Archaeology in Oceania, 43 (2). pp. 62-74. ISSN 0003-8121 .

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Ellen, R.F. (2008) Anthropology and its subdivisions in relation to contemporary human science. Ethnologie française, 38 (4). pp. 591-595. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2006) Ethnobiology and the science of humankind - Introduction. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (Special issue of the JRAI). S1-S22. ISSN 1359-0987. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2006) Local knowledge and management of sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottboell) diversity in South Central Seram, Maluku, eastern Indonesia. Journal of Ethnobiology, 26 (2). pp. 258-298. ISSN 0278-0771.

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Ellen, R.F. (2004) Escalating socio-environmental stress and the preconditions for political instability in south Seram: the very special case of the Nuaulu. Cakelele: Maluku Research Journal, 11 . pp. 41-64. ISSN 1053-2285. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2004) From ethno-science to science, or 'What the indigenous knowledge debate tells us about how scientists define their project'. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4 (3). pp. 37-126. ISSN 1567-7095. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2004) Processing Metroxylon Sagu Rottboell (Arecaceae) as aTechnological Complex: A Case Study from South Central Seram, Indonesia. Economic Botany, 58 (4). pp. 601-625. ISSN 0013-0001. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2002) Creationism, Evolutionism and Anthropology. Anthropology Today, 18 (5). pp. 3-8. ISSN 0268-540X. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2002) Nuaulu head-taking: negotiating the twin dangers of presentist and essentialist reconstructions. Social Anthropology, 10 (3). pp. 281-301. ISSN 0964-0282. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Iskandar, J. and Ellen, R.F. (2000) The contribution of Paraserianthes (Albizia) falcataria to sustainable swidden management practices among the Baduy of West Java. Human Ecology, 28 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0300-7839. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1999) Categories of animality and canine abuse - Exploring contradictions in Nuaulu social relationships with dogs. Anthropos, 94 (1-3). pp. 57-68. ISSN 0257-9774. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1998) Doubts about a unified cognitive theory of taxonomic knowledge and its memic status. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (4). 572-+. ISSN 0140-525X. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1997) The problem of nature: Environment, culture and European expansion - Arnold,D. Journal of Rural Studies, 13 (3). pp. 362-363. ISSN 0743-0167. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1997) On the contemporary uses of colonial history and the legitimation of political status in archipelagic southeast Seram. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 28 (1). 78-&. ISSN 0022-4634. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1994) Hunting the Pangolin. Man, 29 (1). pp. 181-182. ISSN 0025-1496. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1992) A Vertical Wedge Press from the Banda Islands. Technology and Culture, 33 (1). pp. 122-131. ISSN 0040-165X. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. Indonesia, the Moluccas (South Central Seram). Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB 2005): 'Baskets of the world': the social significance of plaited crafts, D. Novellino and F. Ertug, eds. . pp. 640-642. ISSN ISBN 975-807-153-X. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Book section

Newton-Fisher, N.E. and Humle, T. (2013) Culture in Non-human Primates: Definitions and Evidence. In: Ellen, R.F. and Lycett, S.J. and Johns, S.E., eds. Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis. Theory & Methodology in Anthropology . Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781782380719. (In press) The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2012) Archipelagic Southeast Asia. In: Fardon, R. and Harris, O. and Marchand, T.H.J. and Nuttall, M. and Shore, C. and Strang, V. and Wilson, R.A., eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. SAGE, London, pp. 422-442. ISBN 9781847875471. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Soselisa, Hermien L. (2012) Cassava diversity and toxicity in relation to environmental degradation: a feature of food security in the Moluccas, Indonesia. In: Hornidge, Anna-Katharina and Antweiler, Christoph, eds. Environmental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 215-242. ISBN 978-3-8376-1959-1. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2011) 'Indigenous knowledge' and the understanding of cultural cognition: the contribution of studies of environmental knowledge systems. In: Kronenfeld, David B. and Bennardo, Giovanni and de Munck, Victor C. and Fischer, M.D., eds. A companion to cognitive anthropology. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-405187-787. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2011) Sago as a buffer against subsistence stress and as a currency of inter-island trade networks in eastern Indonesia. In: Barker, Graeme and Janowski, Monica, eds. Why cultivate? Anthropological and archaeological approaches to foraging-farming transitions in Southeast Asia. McDonald Institute Monographs . McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 47-60. ISBN 978-1-902937--58-8. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Classification. In: Barnard, Alan and Spencer, Jonathan, eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 129-133. ISBN 9780415409780. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Indigenous knowledge. In: Barnard, Alan and Spencer, Jonathan, eds. The Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology. Routledge, London, New York, pp. 375-377. ISBN 9780415409780. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Why aren't the Nuaulu like the Matsigenka? Knowledge and categorization of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia. In: Johnson, L.M. and Hunn, E.S., eds. Landscape ethnoecology: concepts of biotic and physical space. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (9). Berghahn, New York, Oxford, pp. 116-140. ISBN 9781845456139. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Platten, S.J. (2007) A tradition of change in Minahasan agricultural strategies. In: Ellen, R.F., ed. Modern crises and traditional strategies: Local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (6). Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 166-184. ISBN 9781845453121. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Novellino, D. (2007) Cycles of politics and cycles of nature: permanent crisis in the uplands of Palawan. In: Ellen, R.F., ed. Modern crises and traditional strategies: local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (6). Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 185-221. ISBN 9781845453121. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Iskandar, J. and Ellen, R.F. (2007) Innovation, 'hybrid' knowledge and the conservation of relict rainforest in upland Banten. In: Ellen, R.F., ed. Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (6). Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 133-142. ISBN 9781845453121. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2007) Introduction. In: Ellen, R.F., ed. Modern crises and traditional strategies: local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (6). Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-45. ISBN 9781845453121. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2007) Local and scientific understanding of forest diversity on Seram, eastern Indonesia. In: Sillitoe, P., ed. Local science versus global science: approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (4). Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, pp. 41-74. ISBN 9781845450144. Access to this publication is restricted.

Puri, R.K. (2007) Responses to medium-term stability in climate: El Nino, droughts and coping mechanisms of foragers and farmers in Borneo. In: Ellen, R.F., ed. Modern crises and traditional strategies: Local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology (6). Berhahn Books, Oxford, pp. 46-83. ISBN 9781845453121. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2007) The relevance of IEK (Indigenous Environmental Knowledge): yesterday, today and tomorrow. In: Misra, K.K., ed. Traditional knowledge in contemporary societies: challenges and opportunities. Pratibha Prakashan, Delhi, India, pp. 29-35. ISBN 81-7702-141-9. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2004) The distribution of Metroxylon sagu and the historical diffusion of a complex traditional technology. In: Henley, D. and Boomgaard, P., eds. History of food crop production and animal husbandry in Southeast Asia. KITLV Press (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde), Leiden, pp. 69-106. Access to this publication is restricted.

Ellen, R.F. (2003) Arbitrariness and necessity in ethnobiological classification: notes on some persisting issues. In: Sanga, G. and Ortalli, G., eds. Nature knowledge: ethnoscience, cognition and utility. Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 47-56. ISBN 9781571818232. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. and Harris, H. (2003) Indigenous environmental knowledge, the history of science and the discourse of development. In: Sanga, G. and Ortalli, G., eds. Nature knowledge: ethnoscience, cognition and utility. Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 297-301. ISBN 9781571818232. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2003) Variation and uniformity in the construction of biological knowledge across cultures. In: Selin, H., ed. Nature across cultures: views of nature and the environment in Non-Western cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-western Science, 1 . Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, pp. 47-74. ISBN 9781402012358. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2003) A synoptic view of the Co-management of natural resources. In: Persoon, G.A. and van Est, D.M.E. and Sajise, P.E., eds. Co-management of natural resources in Asia: a comparative perspective. Man & nature in Asia, 1 . Curzon, London, pp. 281-298. ISBN 9788791114137. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2002) Deja vu, all over again, again: reinvention and progress in applying local knowledge to development. In: Sillitoe, P. and Bicker, A. and Pottier, J., eds. Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 235-258. ISBN 978-0415258692. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2002) Pengetahuan tentang hutan, transformasi hutan: ketidakpastian politik, sejarah ekologi,dan renegosiasi terhadap alam di Seram Tengah. In: Murray Li, T., ed. Proses transformasi daerah pedalaman di Indonesia. Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, pp. 205-246. ISBN 9789794613887. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2001) Environment and anthropology. In: Smelser, N.J. and Baltes, P.B., eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social Behavioural Sciences. Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 4556-4560. ISBN 9780080430768. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. Andrew P. Vayda. In: Amit, V., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge, London, pp. 553-554. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Conference or workshop item

Ellen, R.F. (1996) Putting plants in their place: Anthropological approaches to understanding the ethnobotanical knowledge of rainforest populations. In: Edwards, D.S. and Booth, W.E. and Choy, S.C., eds. Monographiae biologicae. Kluwer Academic Publ pp. 457-465. ISBN 0-7923-4038-8. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1993) Rhetoric, Practice and Incentive in The Face Of the Changing Times - A Case-Study in Nuaulu Attitudes to Conservation and Deforestation. In: Milton, K., ed. Environmentalism - The View from Anthropology. ASA Monographs, 32. Routledge, Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, England EC4P 4EE pp. 126-143. ISBN 0-415-09474-7. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Book

Ellen, R.F. (2012) Nuaulu religious practices: the frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 356 . KITLV Press, Leiden, 356 pp. ISBN 9789067183918.

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Ellen, R.F. (2005) The categorical impulse: collected essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour. Berghahn, Oxford, UK, 233 pp. ISBN 1 8454 5017 5. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2003) On the edge of the Banda zone: Past and present in the social organization of a Moluccan trading network. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 330 pp. ISBN 0 8248 2676 0. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Other

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Foreword to 'Landscape, process and power: re-evaluating traditional environmental knowledge' edited by Serena Heckler. Berghahn, New York, Oxford. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Edited book

Ellen, R.F., ed. (2007) Modern crises and traditional strategies: local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 6 . Berghahan Books, Oxford, UK, 272 pp. ISBN 9781845453121 . The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Review

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Cognition, nature, and the 'nature-deficit' syndrome. Review of: The native mind and the cultural construction of nature by Atran, Scott and Medin, Douglas. Current Anthropology, 50 (3). pp. 406-407. ISSN 0011-3204. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Review of: Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered. Review of: Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered by Cassidy, Rebecca and Mullin, Molly. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (2). pp. 426-427. ISSN 1359-0987 . The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Review: Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea. Review of: Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea by Majnep, Ian Saem and Bulmer, Ralph. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (2). pp. 427-428. ISSN 1359-0987 . The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2009) Review of 'Images of the wildman in Southeast Asia: an anthropological perspective'. Review of: Images of the wildman in Southeast Asia: an anthropological perspective by Forth, Gregory. Journal of Ethnobiology, 29 (2). pp. 359-360. ISSN 0278-0771. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) Review of: Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Review of: Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe by Cooper, A.. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50 (4). pp. 1047-1048. ISSN 0010-4175. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) Review: Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and convergence. Review of: Holistic Anthropology: Emergence and Convergence. by Parkin, D. and Ulijaszek, S.. Journal of Biosocial Science, 40 (4). pp. 637-638. ISSN 0021-9320 . The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2008) Beyond the Green Myth: Hunter-gatherers of Borneo in the twenty-first century. Review of: Beyond the Green Myth: Hunter-gatherers of Borneo in the Twenty-First Century by Sercombe, P.G. and Sellato, B.. Anthropos, 103 (1). pp. 289-290. ISSN 0257-9774. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (2007) Perfect order: recognizing complexity in Bali. Review of: Perfect order: recognizing complexity in Bali by Lansing, J.S.. American Anthropologist, 109 (2). 394 -395 . ISSN 0002-7294 . The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1998) The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah. Review of: The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-Eastern Sabah by Sather, Clifford. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 29 (1). pp. 211-213. ISSN 0022-4634. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1995) The chosen primate: Human nature and cultural diversity - Kuper,A. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 (4). pp. 847-848. ISSN 0025-1496. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1994) Elements for an Anthropology of Technology - Lemmonnier,P. Technology and Culture, 35 (3). pp. 652-654. ISSN 0040-165X. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1994) Ethnobiological Classification - Principlesvof Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies - Berlin,B. Man, 29 (1). pp. 223-224. ISSN 0025-1496. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1992) Flowers of Speech, a Palawan Natural-History, Vol 1, the Gifts of Nasalad, Vol 2, The Mastery of Folk Knowledge And The Art of a Relationship - French - Revel,N. Man, 27 (2). p. 437. ISSN 0025-1496. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1992) Growing Up Agreeably - Bonerate Childhood Observed - Broch,HB. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 23 (1). pp. 173-174. ISSN 0022-4634. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.

Ellen, R.F. (1992) Cognation and Social-Organization in Southeast-Asia - Husken,F, Kemp,J. Bijdragen Tot De Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 148 (3-4). pp. 533-535. ISSN 0006-2294. The full text of this publication is not available from this repository.