R H Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 12866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R H Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | R H |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5064-7839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
United as Free and Equal
The New Commonwealth emerged from the first wave of decolonisation in South Asia in the late 1940s. The seminal moment occurred with the signing of the 1949 London Declaration that allowed republican India to remain a Commonwealth member. However, India, Pakistan and Ceylon were divided at the first two Prime Ministers’ Meeting after independence and made no attempt to unite in opposition to the Old ‘white’ Commonwealth members. This article will…
Introduction
25 June 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. Yet, this brutal three-year conflict involving all the major Cold War combatants remains largely ‘forgotten’ outside the Korean peninsula except amongst historians who have long realised its global importance. The historiography, though, continues to be dominated by works focused on the United States. The role played by the Commonwealth countries involved in the Korean War…
In the Mutual Interest’
Historians have lavished enormous attention on British decolonisation but Britain’s post-imperial military relationships with its former colonies have too often been overlooked. The 1947 United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement established as a condition of the island’s independence was the first such military arrangement. Crucially, this agreement was vaguely conceived to serve ‘in the mutual interest’ of both states. Yet this article demonstrate…
Kinship Exercices / Françoise HÉRitier, L’exercice de la parenté, Paris, Gallimard, Le Seuil, 1981. 199 pages, figures, appendices, bibliographie, index, carte
Kinship Exercices / Françoise HÉRITIER, L'exercice de la parenté, Paris, Gallimard, Le Seuil, 1981. 199 pages, figures, appendices, bibliographie, index, carte. An article from journal Culture (Volume 2, Number 2, 1982, pp. 3-126), on Érudit
A Joint Controlling System’
Britain’s position in 1945 was precarious but London was not prepared to relinquish global power status. Most famously, Winston Churchill in March 1946 argued this goal could be achieved by nurturing an Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Yet Britain also sought to utilise the British Commonwealth of Nations to prop up its position and facilitate closer bonds with the United States. Significantly, Churchill had also claimed that the joint use …
Chief Administrator or Political ‘Moderator’? Dumbarton Oaks, the Secretary-General and the Korean War
Seventy-five years after the creation of the United Nations at the Dumbarton Oaks conference, the secretary-general has become the de facto figurehead of the world organization and the office-holder is expected to take a proactive role in a whole range of global issues. Yet it remains unclear what powers the Allied planners intended for the secretary-general. By examining the discussions that took place on this issue before, during and after Dumb…
Keragaman dan Persatuan Masyarakat di Witihama, Adonara
For fourteen months in 2000-2001, I conducted a research in the District of Witihama, eastern Adonara. Witihama is a religiously mixed community, made up of Muslims and Catholics. However, both groups also practice blood sacrifice and carry out ceremonies required by adat. Muslims and Catholics are closely related by ties of marriage and descent. In the recent historical past, as well as in the ancient legendary past, the community has a remember…
Inner States and Constituents of the Person in Kedang, Lembata
Khazanah Bahasa Kedang mengenal variasi istilah yang berhubungan dengan 'keadaan batin seseorang' ( inner state ) yang disebabkan oleh faktor jasmani dan rohani (disebut dengan > atan ). Tulisan ini menyajikan pembedaan antara manusia, hewan dan roh-roh; anggota badan manusia; hubungan antara tubuh dan roh; berbagai macam keadaan emosi, baik dan buruk, serta hal-hal yang sehubungan dengan pikiran. Dibahas pula, begaimana roh-roh tertentu mempenga…
Community Diversity and Unity in Witihama, Adonara
For fourteen months in 2000-2001, I conducted a research in the District of Witihama, eastern Adonara. Witihama is a religiously mixed community, made up of Muslims and Catholics. However, both groups also practice blood sacrifice and carry out ceremonies required by adat. Muslims and Catholics are closely related by ties of marriage and descent. In the recent historical past, as well as in the ancient legendary past, the community has a remember…
Translating the Sacred
This article discusses the translation of the Bible, the Qur'an, and Buddhist texts. The Septuagint is a Jewish Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. The Vulgate is a Christian Latin translation of the whole Bible, i.e. Old and New Testaments. Large numbers of new English versions have appeared in the twentieth century, following different theories of translation. Since 1800, the Bible has been translated into versions of widely spoken languages…
New Village Temple in Witihama, Adonara, Indonesia
Anthropos , Seite 379 - 396
Raja Servus of Larantuka, Flores, Eastern Indonesia
The Dutch deposed Raja Lorenzo II of Larantuka, Flores, in 1904 and exiled him to Java. After his son Servus reached maturity, they appointed him Raja. By then the office had largely been reduced to a principally administrative function at the bottom of the colonial bureaucracy, although the Dutch called the rajas in the Dutch East Indies “self-governors”.Servus seems to have been demoralized by an attack on his life which he survived only after …
How obedience of marriage rules may counteract genetic drift
Branding an Aggressor
The crisis following China's intervention in the Korean War led to a significant rift between the United States and the Commonwealth at the United Nations (UN). This article examines the conditions under which the Commonwealth became united and was able to directly influence UN decision-making. It concludes that, when united, the Commonwealth could not easily be ignored by Washington, and thereby acted as an agent of constraint upon the Western s…
The Grooming of a Raja
On 14 September 1887 Don Lorenzo Diaz Vieira Godinho of Larantuka, Flores, was appointed raja. On 1 July 1904 he was deposed. Throughout this period he was the great hope of the local Jesuit mission. He was also often the despair of the Dutch officials. As a devout Christian Don Lorenzo Diaz Vieira Godinho of Larantuka pleased members of the Jesuit Mission much more than had his father and uncles. The missionaries placed great hopes in him and pr…
Of self and injustice
A temple, a mission, and a war
After temporarily acquiring Portuguese 'possessions' in Flores and islands immediately to the east in 1851, the Netherlands East Indies took full possession in 1859. An important condition guaranteed religious freedom to Catholics in the transferred territories. Dutch authorities took this concession seriously and requested that Dutch Catholic missionaries be sent to Larantuka, Flores. Eventually the Jesuits assumed responsibility. The Dutch Cath…
Sultans, Shamans & Saints
Federspiel, a political scientist, describes this book as a study of Islam and Muslims in the non-Arabic setting of Southeast Asia. He does not intend, he says, the book to be a history, although it uses a historical framework. He postulates an Islamic zone of Southeast Asia crossing political and geographical boundaries and inhabited by Sunni Muslims. Despite the great cultural differences, not to mention religious differences, in what he calls …
The Power of Strangers in Flores and Timo
Anthropos , Seite 343 - 354
A Legendary History in Witihama, Eastern Adonara, Indonesia
An anthropological literature dealing with conflict such as has afflicted Indonesia in recent years is beginning to emerge. The present article is one of a series dealing with different incidents and forms of conflict and violence in a region of eastern Indonesia. It furthers a discussion on contested claims for precedence. Such claims in Indonesia are often made by means of legends of origin. Descent groups claiming outside origin may, neverthel…
Public Religion' and the Pancasila-Based State of Indonesia
In 1945, with Japanese collapse imminent, Sukarno set out as the philosophy for a new nation his doctrine of five principles, Pancasila: belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy. This doctrine defined what were to become the official guiding principles of the Republic of Indonesia and eventually its unifying ideology. At the time Islamic leaders wanted Islam to be given a more prominent role. Nationalists leaders,…
Death Notices
Maurice Godelier and the Metamorphosis of Kinship, A Review Essay
Once it was thought that kinship was the preeminent subject of anthropology, one about which considerable progress was possible. “Kinship” itself was, for some, fairly unproblematic. Thus Radcliffe-Brown (1952: 46) asserted that, “if any society establishes a system of corporations on the basis of kinship ... it must necessarily adopt a system of unilineal reckoning of succession,” and Fortes (1959: 209) announced that, “Kinship, being an irreduc…
Two Crows Denies It
In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lévi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the s…
Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis
Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis." Diplomacy & Statecraft, 31(1), pp. 196–197
Contexts and levels
Origins, Ancestry and Alliance
This is the third in a series of volumes produced in the Departme of Anthropology from the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. 1 The first of these volumes examined the comparative design of Austronesian houses and related these spatial forms to the social and ritual practices of their resident groups.The second volume provided a general survey of the Austronesians focusing on their common origins and historical transformations.This thi…
Early Austronesian Social Organization
Published views on early Austronesian social organization can be characterized broadly as representing one of two mutually irreconcilable positions: one that recognizes descent groups and another that does not. The former position-in a highly specific form that I call the "prescriptive-alliance hypothesis"-has been adopted by most Dutch scholars concerned with the culture history of Indonesia and was independently reached by Levi-Strauss in the c…
Remarks and Inventions
1. Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage2. Age, Category, and Descent3. Surmise, Discovery, and Rhetoric
Marriage by Capture
Il y a longtemps que les theories de John F. McLennan, maintenant considerees demodees, ont ete refutees. L'ethnologie moderne a produit depuis, des analyses de plus en plus sophistiquees qu'il est pertinent de rapporter aux idees de cet auteur. Un echantillonage d'exemples ethnographiques provenant d'Indonesie, des Caraibes, d'Amazonie, Australie et Nouvelle Guinee est examine par l'A., et confronte aux hypotheses formulees par McLennan, en part…
Showing Signs of Violence
Leadership and Social Mobility in a Southeast Asian Society
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
Symbolic Structures
Preface 1. The ethnographic background 2. Symbolism and the punctuation of culture 3. Some problems of the representational model of symbolism 4. The leopard cannot change his spots 5. Water and fertility 6. Tarniisnohgbarklele: 'the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death' 7. 'It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised' 8. The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation Appendix: The fest…
Dispersed Alliance and the Prohibition of Marriage
Two Crows Denies It
In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lévi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the s…
Avarice and iniquity at the Solor Fort
A source-critical or tradition-historical approach to the Genesis Apocryphon will quite justifiably emphasize the features of the Apocryphon that point toward what can be described as its lack of compositional unity. There exists, however, a level on which the Apocryphon can be shown to be a whole; that is its narrative unity. The latter is the result of the ways in which the final author/composer organized and manipulated the sources and traditi…
Kedang
Barter and Money in an Indonesian Village Economy
Maurice Godelier and the Metamorphosis of Kinship, A Review Essay
Once it was thought that kinship was the preeminent subject of anthropology, one about which considerable progress was possible. “Kinship” itself was, for some, fairly unproblematic. Thus Radcliffe-Brown (1952: 46) asserted that, “if any society establishes a system of corporations on the basis of kinship ... it must necessarily adopt a system of unilineal reckoning of succession,” and Fortes (1959: 209) announced that, “Kinship, being an irreduc…
Les deux soeurs et leur mere
Lamalerap
The Timor Straits have borne vessels trafficking in the colorful and historic ventures of many periods in human navigation. Anciently, sandalwood from the island of Timor found its way, in all probability, to markets in China. The same product later attracted Arab, and Makasarese, Portuguese and Dutch traders and fleets. Local traditions allude to the navies of the ancient Javanese empire of Madjapahit or the political influence of the spice king…
Native American Mathematics
Preface *1. Native American Number Systems (Michael P. Closs) *2. Numerical Representations in North American Rock Art (William Breen Murray) *3. Some Notes on Quantification and Numerals in an Amazon Indian Language (Maurizio Covaz Gnerre) *4. The Calendrical and Numerical Systems of the Nootka (William J. Folan) *5. Chumash Numerals (Madison S. Beeler) *6. Cultural Ecology of Mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit Hunters (J. Peter Denny) *7. Tallies a…
The Majapahit dependency Galiyao
The Migara-Kertsgama contains a list of dependencies of Majapahit, including a series of islands in eastern Indonesia, among them Galiyao, Sumba, Solot and Timur (Pigeaud 1962, IV:34). In a recent article van Fraassen (1976) has attempted to identify Galiyao with Kalao between Saleier and Flores. I shall try on the contrary to bring Galiyao back to the Solor Archipelago. It speaks in favor of van Fraassen's choice that the name Galiyao appears in…
A History of Anthropological Thought
Number and Number Use in Kedang, Indonesia
Hongi Hinga and its implications; A war of colonial consolidation in the Timor residence in 1904
A war of colonial consolidation in the Timor Residency in 1904Around 1910, the Netherlands Indies established its boundaries as they were to remain until, depending on how one chooses to view the matter, 1942 or 1949.In order to achieve this end, the government adopted an aggressive policy of forcibly subjecting those principalities in the Indies which previously it had indulged with considerable, if inconsistent, neglect. 1 A repeated complaint …
Alliance and warfare in an Eastern Indonesian principality. Kédang in the last half of the nineteenth century
Two Crows Denies It
Journal Article Two Crows Denies It: A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology Get access Two Crows Denies It: A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology. By Barnes R. H.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xiii + 272 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, indexes. $24.95.) Willard H. Rollings Willard H. Rollings Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qua…
A Maternal Religion
International Oil Companies Confront Governments
Journal Article International Oil Companies Confront Governments: A Half-Century of Experience Get access Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Department of Business Administration, York College of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 1972, Pages 454–471, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013609 Published: 01 December 1972
Lamalerap
The Timor Straits have borne vessels trafficking in the colorful and historic ventures of many periods in human navigation. Anciently, sandalwood from the island of Timor found its way, in all probability, to markets in China. The same product later attracted Arab, and Makasarese, Portuguese and Dutch traders and fleets. Local traditions allude to the navies of the ancient Javanese empire of Madjapahit or the political influence of the spice king…
Comments on a Pantar language, with a postscript by F.S. Watuseke
Ethnology
Mancala in Kédang
Kedang
Dispersed Alliance and the Prohibition of Marriage
On the Prehistory of Marriage
Remarks and Inventions
1. Remarks on the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage2. Age, Category, and Descent3. Surmise, Discovery, and Rhetoric
Mata in Austronesia
Hidatsa Personal Names
Hidatsa social organization has been taken to be the exact matrilineal converse of Omaha social organization. In fact, Hidatsa pass male personal names from classificatory fathers to classificatory sons. Furthermore, Hidatsa names have meanings, descriptive of neither the bearer nor the giver, but often of some third agnatic relative. This paper relates names to customs of avoidance, friendsnip and license; it compares the views of Lévi-Strauss o…
Early Austronesian Social Organization
Published views on early Austronesian social organization can be characterized broadly as representing one of two mutually irreconcilable positions: one that recognizes descent groups and another that does not. The former position-in a highly specific form that I call the "prescriptive-alliance hypothesis"-has been adopted by most Dutch scholars concerned with the culture history of Indonesia and was independently reached by Levi-Strauss in the c…
Karo Batak terminology
In recent essay on Karo Batak social organization with especial reference to Masri Singarimbun's very readable and accomplished ethnography (1975), Needham (1978: 146) has had occasion to refer to some of my own comments about form of their terminological system. In particular he has drawn into contention my claim that Karo Batak have prescriptive with asym metric features (1976: 389). He opposes (p. 142) to this interpretation his own to effect …
Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia
Minangkabau Social Formations
List of maps, figures and tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The internal and the external in a Minangkabau village: an introduction to the world of the concrete 3. Adat, kinship and marriage: the constitution of the subsistence community 4. Agriculture and subsistence: the reproduction of the subsistence community 5. Commodity production in the village economy: the case of blacksmithing 6. Occupation, class and the peasant economy 7. The structur…
Ethnology
Improving Doctor Performance
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington Seattle, Washington
The Minangkabau Response to Dutch Colonial Rule in the Nineteenth Century
The Majapahit dependency Galiyao
The Migara-Kertsgama contains a list of dependencies of Majapahit, including a series of islands in eastern Indonesia, among them Galiyao, Sumba, Solot and Timur (Pigeaud 1962, IV:34). In a recent article van Fraassen (1976) has attempted to identify Galiyao with Kalao between Saleier and Flores. I shall try on the contrary to bring Galiyao back to the Solor Archipelago. It speaks in favor of van Fraassen's choice that the name Galiyao appears in…
Number and Number Use in Kedang, Indonesia
Indonesische Reisrituale
A History of Anthropological Thought
Short review and book note
W. Owen Cole ed., Comparative religions—A modern textbook, London, Blandford Press 1982, 256 pp. £6.95 Ake Hultkrantz, Belief and worship in native North America, edited, with an introduction, by Christopher Vecsey. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press 1981, xxvii + 330 pp. $30 Richard C. Martin, Islam: A cultural perspective, Prentice-Hall series in world religions, Prentice-Hall International 1982. 178 pp. £5.95 A. Rosalie David, A gui…
Essais sur l'individualisme
Symbolic Structures
Preface 1. The ethnographic background 2. Symbolism and the punctuation of culture 3. Some problems of the representational model of symbolism 4. The leopard cannot change his spots 5. Water and fertility 6. Tarniisnohgbarklele: 'the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death' 7. 'It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised' 8. The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation Appendix: The fest…
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