Books

Voeks, R. 2018. The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Voeks, R. A. and J. Rashford (eds). 2013. African Ethnobotany in the Americas . New York: Springer. (Reviewed in: Ethnobiology Letters, 2013, vol. 4: 107-109; AAG Review of Books, 2014, Vol. 1: 165-167).

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. 2024. Biogeographical Implications of California’s Spanish Place Names. California Geography 64: In press.

Voeks, R. 2024. Carurú: The Enigmatic Origin of a Signature Afro-Brazilian Dish. In: E. Costa Lima (ed), Conexão Botânica: Arte e Religiosidade. Anais do 2º Colóquio de Botânica Cultural da UEFS. In Press.

Menezes, I., Rocha, D., Voeks, R., Couto-Santos, A., Funch, L. 2024. Flowering and Fruiting Calendar of Babaçu (Attalea pindobassu Bondar): Agreement between Local Knowledge and Phenological Monitoring. Economic Botany 77 (3):1-24.

Nascimento, J., Voeks, R., Funch, L., and Costa Neto, E. 2024 In review. Etnobotânica de Quintais Quilombolas: Resistência e Preservação Cultural em Matinha dos Pretos e Paus Altos-BA. Ambiente & Sociedade.

Nascimento, J., Santana, B., Costa Neto, E., Voeks, R., and Funch, L. 2024  Accepted. Diversity and Use of Non-conventional Food Plants in Quilombola Communities in Northeast Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasilica. 38: e20230186.

Senkoro, A.M., Munt, D.D., Shackleton, C.M., Ribeiro‑Barros, A.I. and Voeks, R.A. 2024. The case of a threatened medicinal tree with optimistic prospects under climate change. Global Ecology & Conservation , p.e03126.

Santana, B., Neves dos Santos, P., Voeks, R.A., and Funch, L. 2024. Urban Ethnobotany in Local Markets: A Review of Socioeconomic and Cultural Aspects. South African Journal of Botany. 170: 401 416

Santos-Neves, P.S., Bezerra-Silva, A., Gomes, M.T.D., Fagundes, A.C.A., Oliveira, M.I.U., Voeks, R.A., EM, C.N. and Funch, L.S. 2024. Biocultural Heritage of the Caatinga: A Systematic Review of Myrtaceae and its Multiple Uses. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Menezes, I. S., Rocha, D., Voeks R, and Couto-Santos, A., and Funch, L. 2023. Challenges for the conservation of a useful neotropical palm babaçu (Attalea pindobassu Bondar) in the face of climate change . Flora . Mar 30:152262.

Santana, B., Voeks, R. and Funch, L. 2022. Quilombola Ethnomedicine: The Role of Age, Gender, and Culture Change . Acta Botanica Brasilica . 36: e2020abb0500.

Aparicio, J., Voeks, R., and Funch, L. 2021. Are Mixtec Forgetting their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico. Economic Botany . In Press.

Maldonado, G. and Voeks, R. 2021. The Paradox of Culturally Useful Invasive Species: Southern Cattail (Typha domingensis) Crafts of Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 20: 148-174.

Suto, A. and Voeks, R. 2021. Uprooted: Gardening and Landscaping in the Japanese-American Internment . The California Geographer 60: 73-94.

Joseph, E. and Voeks, R. 2021. Indian Diaspora Gastronomy: On the Changing Use of Herbs and Spices among Southern California’s Indian Immigrant Women. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems . 5: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2021.610081 

Aparicio, J. C., Voeks, R. and Funch, L. 2021. Mixtec Taxonomy: Plant Classification, Nomenclature, and Identification in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 21: 1-13. http://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/2605 

Senkoro, A.M., Talhinhas, P., Simões, F., Batista-Santos, P., Shackleton, C.M., Voeks, R.A., Marques, I. and Ribeiro-Barros, A.I., 2020. The Genetic Legacy of Fragmentation and Overexploitation in the Threatened Medicinal African Pepper-bark tree, Warburgia salutaris. Scientific Reports , 10(1): 1-13. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76654-6

Senkoro, A., Shackleton, C., Voeks, R., and Ribeiro, A. 2019. Uses, knowledge and management of the threatened pepper-bark tree (Warburgia salutaris) in Southern Mozambique . Economic Botany 73 (3).

Vandebroek, I. and R. Voeks. 2019. The gradual loss of African indigenous vegetables in tropical America: A review . Economic Botany 72 (4).

Voeks, R. and Greene, C. 2018. God's healing leaves: The colonial quest for medicinal plants in the Torrid Zone. Geographical Review.

Farias, B., Voeks, R, and L. Funch. 2016. Ethnomedicinal survey of a maroon community in Brazil’s Atlantic tropical forest. Journal of Ethnopharmacology . 181: 37-49.

Voeks, R. A. 2016. Diaspora ethnobiology. In: Introduction to Ethnobiology . U. Albuquerque and R. Alves (eds), Springer, pp. 39-45.

Watkins, C. and R. Voeks. 2015. A mata transatlântica: Afrodescendentes e transformação socio-ambiental no litoral baiano, 1500-1888. In: Diogo Cabral e Ana Bustamante (eds). Metamorphoses Florestais: Culturas, Ecologias, e as Transformações Históricas da Mata Atlântica Brasileira . Pp. 150-174.

Santos, L., Nascimento^, A., Vieira, F., da Silva, A., Voeks, R., and U. Albuquerque. 2014. The cultural value of invasive species: A case study from semi-arid northeastern Brazil. Economic Botany 68 (3): 283-300. (pdf)  

Vu, V. and Voeks, R. 2013. Fish sauce to French fries: Changing foodways of the Vietnamese diaspora in Orange County, California. The California Geographer . 52: 35-54. 

Voeks, R. A. 2012. Spiritual Flora of Brazil’s African Diaspora: Ethnobotanical Conversations in the Black Atlantic. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture .  6 (4): 499-520.

Stanley, D., Voeks, R. and Short, L. 2012. Is Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Sustainable in the Less Developed World? A Systematic Review of the Recent Economic and Ecological Literature. Ethnobiology and Conservation . 1 (1): 

Alves, R., Rosa, I., Neto, N. and Voeks, R. 2012. Animals for the Gods: Magical and Religious Faunal Use and Trade in Brazil. Human Ecology. 40 (5): 751-780.

Voeks, R., Short, L, and Gregorio, A. 2012. Whither the Journal Economic Botany: Trends and Transitions, 1947-2010. In: B. Ponman and R. Bussmann (eds), Medicinal Plants and the Legacy of Richard E. Schultes. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, pp. 119-129.

Neto, N., Voeks, R., Dias, T. and Alves, R. 2012. Mollusks of Candomblé: Symbolic and Ritualistic Importance . Journal of Ethnobiology & Ethnomedicine  8:10

Voeks, R. A. 2011. Ethnobotany. Chapter 26. In: The Sage Handbook of Biogeography . A. Millington, M. Blumler, G. MacDonald, and U. Schickhoff (eds). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, pp. 493-509.  

Voeks, R. A. 2010. Ecotourism and Ethnobotanical Erosion: A Possible Rescue Effect in Brazil’s Chapada Diamantina?  In: Albuquerque, U.P. and Hanazaki,N. (eds). Recent Developments and Case Studies in Ethnobotany , Recife: NPPEEA, pp. 228-245.

Voeks, R. A. 2009. 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, pp. 275-294.

Pfeiffer, J. and Voeks, R. 2008. Biological Invasions and Biocultural Diversity: Linking Ecological and Cultural Systems. Environmental Conservation 35 (4): 281-293.

Voeks, R. A. 2007. Are Women Reservoirs of Traditional Plant Knowledge? Gender, Ethnobotany and Globalization in Northeastern Brazil. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 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. 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. 

Carney, J. and Voeks, R. 2003. Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil. Progress in Human Geography 27: 139-152.  

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. 1996. Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference. Economic Botany 50 (3): 354-373.