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 (with Ingvar Svanberg):
- 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). With Isak Lidström.
- Historical and Contemporary Uses of Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides L., in the Nordic Countries. Journal of Northern Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2021: 34–46.
- ”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