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Medin, D.; Ross, N. & Cox, D. (2006). Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings matter. Russel Sage Foundation.

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Ross, N. (2004). Culture and Cognition, Implications for Theory and Method. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publication.

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Ross, N. (2001). Bilder vom Regenwald: Mentale Modelle, Kulturwandel und Umweltverhalten bei den Lakandonen in Mexiko. Münster. LIT Verlag.

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Ross, N. (1997). Nutz Lok’el Li Kaxlane – Die Vertreibung der Ladinos aus San Andrés Larraínzar, Chiapas, Mexiko. Münster. LIT Verlag.

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Review en Español, de Carlos Lenkersdorf (UNAM)
For a book review in English, see American Ethnologist 2000

BOOK UNDER REVIEW:

Medin, D. Ross, N. & Cox, D. (n.d.). Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter. Russel Sage Publications.

SINGLE AND FIRST AUTHORED ARTICLES: (click on links for abstracts)

Ross, N. (n.d.). The Problems of Culture and Language in Comparative Studies. Submitted, American Psychologist.

Ross, N.; Shenton, J.& Tidwell, M. (n.d.). Language and Spatial Cognition: Bringing

Anthropology to the Table. Submitted. Cognition.

Ross, N.; Timura, C. & Maupin, J. (n.d.). Stability in Emergent Cultural Systems:

Globalization and cultural resiliency in folk medical beliefs. Under Review, American Anthropologist.

Ross, N. & Medin, D. (n.d.) Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences. In: Kronenfeld, D. et al. (eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Anthropology.

Ross, N. & Revilla Minaya, C. (n.d.). Cognitive Studies in Ethnobiology: What can we learn about the mind as well as human environmental interactions? In: Anderson, E. et al. (eds.) Ethnobiology.

Ross, N. & Tidwell, M. (in press). “Concepts and Culture.” In: Quinn, Mareschal & Lea (eds.), The emergence of human concepts.

Ross, N. (in press).  “Animism.” Chapter requested by Richard Shweder (ed.), The Chicago Companion to the Child.

Ross, N.; Medin, D. & Cox, D. (2007). Epistemological Models and Culture Conflict: Menominee and Euro-American Hunters in Wisconsin. Ethos, (Journal of the Psychological Anthropology Section), Vol. 35(4):478-515.

Ross, N. (2007). “Texto para la curacion de komel.” In: Köhler, U. (Ed.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó, 356-365, Münster (Translated from the original in German, 1997).

Ross, N. & Wetzel, D. (2007). “El sistema de cargos publicos y el ciclo de fiestas de los indios. “ In:  Köhler, U. (Ed.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó, 63-88, Münster. (Translated from the original in German, 1997).

Ross, N.; Medin, D. & Cox, D. (2007). Epistemological Models and Culture Conflict: Menominee and Euro-American Hunters in Wisconsin. Ethos, (Journal of the Psychological Anthropology Section), Vol. 35(4):478-515.

Ross, N. (2005). We are all flowering: Naming of plants among the Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantán; a cultural account of difference.

In: Ahn, et al. (eds.). Categorization inside and outside the classroom.p. 15-28. APA monograph.

Ross, N. & Medin, D. (2005). Ethnography and Experiments: Cultural Models and Expertise effects elicited with experimental research techniques. Field Methods         

17(2): 131-149.

Ross, N.; Barrientos, T.; Esquit-Choy, A. (2005). “Triad Tasks, a multi purpose tool to elicit similarity judgements: The Case ofTzotzil Maya Plant taxonomy. Field    

Methods, 17(3): 269-282.

Ross, N.; Medin, D.; Coley, J. & Atran, S. (2003.). “Cultural and Experiential Differences in the Development of Folkbiological Induction.” Cognitive Devlopment,    

Vol. 18:25-47.

Ross, N. (2002). “Cognitive Aspects of Intergenerational Change: Mental Models, Cultural change and Environmental behavior among the Lacandon

Maya of Southern Mexico.” Human Organization, Vol. 61(2):125-137.

Ross, N. (2002). "Lacandon Maya Intergenerational Change and the Erosion of Folkbiological Knowledge." Stepp, J.; Wyndham, F. & Zarger, R. (eds.),

Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity, p.585-592. Athens, Georgia.

Ross, N. (1997a ). “La Expulsión de Los Ladinos de San Andrés Larraínzar – analysis de un discurso en Tzotzil-Maya.” In: Annuario del Centro de

Estudios Indígenas, Vol.VI, San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

Ross, N. (1997b). “Ökologie und Religion; einige methodische und theoretische Überlegungen zu einem kognitiven Ansatz.” In: Dürr, E. & Seitz, S. (eds.),

Religionsethnologische Beiträge zur Amerikanistik. Münster.

Ross, N. (1997c ). “Ein Gebetstext zur Heilung von Komel.“ In: Köhler, U. (Ed.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó. pp.327-337, Münster.

Ross, N. (1997d). “La Expulsión de los Ladinos de San Andrés Larraínzar (1994) como

Antecedente del Movimiento Neozapatista.” In: Annales del Tercer Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, 9.-15. de Julio 1995. Chetumal.

Ross, N. (1997e). “Winds of Change: Cultural Change among the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas.” Honey Bee, Ahmedabad, India.

Ross, N. & Wetzel, D. (1997). “Das Ämtersystem und der indianische Festzyklus.“ In:  Köhler, U. (Hg.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó. S.37-59, Münster.

Ross, N. et al. (1997c). “Der Hausbau.” In: Köhler, U. (Hg.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó.Münster.

Ross, N. (1995a). “Lokale Reaktionen auf das Problem von Landknappheit; die Blumenindustrie von Zinacantán, Chiapas.” In: Kritische Ökologie,

Vol.12/13 (3), pp.14-22.

Ross, N. (1995b). “San Andrés Larraínzar.” In: Dow, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. Mesoamerika, general editor D. Levine. Boston.

Ross, N. (1994a). “Die Entwicklung der Blumenindustrie in Zinacantán.” In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Vol.119, pp.59-73. Berlin.

Ross, N. (1994b). “Der traditionelle Hausbau der Tzotzil-Maya von San Andrés Larraínzar (Mexiko).” In: Jahrbuch des Museums für Völkerkunde

zu Leipzig, pp. 265-298. Leipzig.

CO-AUTHORED ARTICLES:

Shenton, J.; Ross, N. & Tidwell, M. (n.d.). Maya folk botany and knowledge devolution: Modernization and Intra community variability in the acquisition of folkbotanical knowledge. Unpublished manuscript.

Maupin, J.; Ross, N. & Timura, C. (n.d.). Gendered experiences of Migration and Conceptual Knowledge of Illness. Under Review: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Atran, S. & Cox, D.(2007). “Why Folkbiolgy matters: Resource Conflict despite shared goals and knowledge.” Human Ecology, 35(3):315-329.

Waxman, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2007).”Folkbiological Reasoning from a cross-cultural developmental perspective: Early essentialist notions are shaped by cultural beliefs. Developmental Psychology, 43(2):294-308.

Mündlein, S.; Vogt, U.; Heath, A. & Ross, N. (2007). “Mercados y negocios.” In: Köhler, U. (Ed.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó, 237-261. Münster. (Translated from the original in German, 1997).

Mündlein, S.; Vogt, U.; Heath, A. & Ross, N.(2007). “La construccion de viviendas.” In: Köhler, U. (Ed.), Santa Catarina Pantelhó, 261-281. Münster. (Translated from the original in German, 1997).

Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Atran, S. et al. (2006). “The role of Culture and Expertise in the Folkbiology of Freshwater Fish.” Cognition, 99:237-273.

Atran, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2005). The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling within and across populations. Psychological Review, 112(4):744-776.

Burnett, R.; Medin, D.; Ross, N. & Blok, S. (2005). Ideal is Typical. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(1):3-10.

Atran,S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2004.).”Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of two biologies.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, Vol. 10(2):395-420.

La Torre Cuadros, M. & Ross, N. (2003). “Secondary Biodiversity: Local perceptions of Forest Habitats among the Maya of Solferino, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Journal of Ethnobiology, Journal of Ethnobiology 23(2):287-308.

Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Atran, S. et al. (2002). “Categorization and Reasoning in relation to Culture and Expertise.” The Psychology of Learning and

Motivation, Vol.41:1-41.

Atran, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2002) “Thinking about Biology. Modular Constraints on Categorization and Reasoning in the Everyday Life of Americans, Maya and Scientists.” Mind & Society, Vol.3:31-63.

Atran, S.; Medin, D.; Ross, N. et al. (2002). “Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirits of the Commons: A Garden experiment in the Maya Lowlands, 

1995-2000.” Current Anthropology, 43(3):421-450.

Atran, S.; Medin, D.; Ross, N. et al. (1999). “Folkecology and commons management in the Maya Lowlands.” In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.96, pp.7598-7603, June.