Ethnobiology studies the relationship between humans and their environment in history and present time. Symbols, local knowledge, ecology, folk taxonomy – how people define plants and animals – folk beliefs and attitudes, medicine, folklore, legends, myths and all kinds of relevant archaeological, historical, ethnographic and anthropological data are explored.
Articles written together with Ingvar Svanberg
- Outdoor activities foster local plant knowledge in Karelia, NE Europe. Scientific Reports (2023) 13:8627. With G. Mattalia, N. Kuznetsova, B. Prūse, V. Kolosova, M. A. Aziz, R. Kalle, R. Sõukand (Open Access).
- Traditional sports and games among the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi): an ethnobiological perspective. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, volume 18, Article number: 20 (2022), pp. 1-14. With Isak Lidström. (Open Access)
- Historical and Contemporary Uses of Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides L., in the Nordic Countries. Journal of Northern Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2021. pp. 34–46. (Open Access)
- ”Thunberg’s Barbary Lion in Uppsala,” Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2021, pp. 182–184.
- Wild European dewberry, Rubus caesius L. (fam. Rosaceae), in Sweden: from traditional regional consumption to exotic dessert at the Nobel Prize banquet. Journal of Ethnic Foods 2021. (Open Access)
- A Parakeet in Uppsala around 1750. Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2020.
- Keeping birds as domestic pest control. Aviculture: a history 2018.
- Killing wolves with lichens: wolf lichen, Letharia vulpina (L.) Hue, in Scandinavian folk biology. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv 2017.
- A Russian Polar Bear in Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century. SLÅ 2016.
- Orangutans never made it to Uppsala: notes on Asian great apes in captivity. SLÅ 2015.
- Catching basking ide, Leuciscus idus (L.), in the Baltic Sea: Fishing and local knowledge in the Finnish and Swedish archipelagos. Journal of Northern Studies 2011. (Open Access)
See also Central Asia & Siberia