Roy Ellen

Roy Frank Ellen (born 1947) is a Bristish Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology with a particular interest in ethnobiology and the cultural transmission of ethnobiological knowledge [http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/department/staff/ellen.html University of Kent's webpage for "Professor Roy Ellen"] ] .

The British Academy in a 2003 "Review" describes him, his work, and his contribution to society as follows [ [http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubS/review/_pdfs/ba-review07.pdf The British Academy (2003) "The Bristish Academy Review" Issue 7. Page 11. PDF] ] :

"His work is at the forefront of ecological anthropology. He has recently embarked on a series of major studies of indigenous knowledge and of the consequences of deforestation in parts of Indonesia and in Brunei. He has also contributed notably to work on anthropological history and method."

Primary Research Area

Roy Ellen has been carrying out ethnobiological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia since the early 1970s, working variously with the Nuaulu people of Seram (with whom he did his doctoral dissertation); on the islands of Sulawesi, Gorom, Seram Laut, Banda and Ambon-Lease; plus some addition fieldwork into the social impacts of logging at Brunei (1991-1994).

Brief Bibliography of Works

Books Published

Roy Ellen's published books include:

* ELLEN, Roy (1978) "Nuaulu settlement and ecology. The environmental relations of an eastern Indonesian community". Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No.83 Martinus Nijhoff The Hague

* ELLEN, Roy (1982) "Environment, subsistence and system: the ecology of small-scale social formations." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

* ELLEN, Roy (1993) "The cultural relations of classification: an analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram". Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

* ELEEN, Roy (2006) "The categorical impulse: essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour." Oxford: Berghahn.

Books Edited

* ELLEN, Roy & BURNHAM, P.H (Eds) (1979) "Social and ecological systems". Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph No.18. London: Academic Press.

* ELLEN, Roy & REASON, D (Eds) (1979) "Classifications in their social context." London: Academic Press

* ELLEN, Roy (Ed) (1984) "Ethnographic research: a guide to general conduct." Association of Social Anthropologists Research Methods Series No.1. London: Academic Press.

* ELLEN, Roy & WATSON, C.W. (Eds) (1993) "Understanding witchcraft and sorcery in Southeast Asia". Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

* ELLEN, Roy & FUKUI, K. (Eds) (1996) "Redefining nature: ecology, culture and domestication". Oxford: Berg

* ELLEN, Roy; PARKES, P; & BICKER, A (Eds) (2000) "Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations. Amsterdam: Harwood

* ELLEN, Roy (Ed) (2006) "Ethnobiology and the science of humankind". Journal Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue. Oxford: Blackwell.

Distinctions

* 2001 Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
* 2003 Elected Fellow of British Academy
* 2003-6 Vice President, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
* 2004-6 President, Anthropology and Archaeology Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science
* 2007-9 President, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [ [http://www.therai.org.uk/history/the_council.html Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute, September 2007] ]

ee also

* Ethnobiology

External links

* [http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Panawina/nuadefh.html ELLEN, Roy (n.d) "Rhetoric, Practice and Incentive in the Face of the Changing Times: A Case Study in the Nuaulu Attitudes to Conservation and Deforestation" Posted on University of Kent website.] Retrieced 21 April 2008
* [http://www.therai.org.uk/history/the_council.html Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute, September 2007] Retrieved 21 April 2008
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/446325.stm PODGER, Corrine (13 September 1999) "Rice crop to fight rainforest destruction". BBC News.] Retrieved 21 April 2008
* [http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/department/staff/ellen.html University of Kent's webpage for "Professor Roy Ellen"] Retrieved 21 April 2008
* [http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/royellen/2003 University of Kent (2003) "Kent academic elected to the British Academy" Newa] Retrieved 21 April 2008

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