J Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2896-7358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 487 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1909 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby
“We Are Ekelesia”
The Scope of Anthropology
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapt…
Christian Politics in Oceania
The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Van…
The Missionary’s Dilemma
Better homes and gardens' with a description of contemporary Tubetube houses. 'These houses,' she observed, 'being made entirely from "bush materials", conform to Western notions of the primitive or traditional architecture appropriate to a small tropical island ' (1989, p. 156). Tubetube people, however, attributed the houses to Islander teachers who served as the workforce of the Methodist mission that arrived on the island in 1892. Drawing upo…
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
This chapter is the front matter to Section Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.
Bibliographies
Converts, Christians and anthropologists
First advanced in a major essay published in 2010, Mark Mosko's ‘partible penitent’ thesis asserts that Melanesian and Christian cultures are based upon analogous conceptions of dividual personhood. Consequently, conversion in the region has been characterised by continuity rather than rupture, as argued most prominently by Joel Robbins. This essay offers an assessment of Mosko's thesis in terms of his critique of the theoretical and ethnographic…
Who cares?’ Gender, care and secondary schooling
A breadth of research explores gendered professional identities, practices and spaces across a range of UK educational institutions. One focus has been on links between gender, care and education in early years settings and primary schools, although less attention has been given to caring within secondary schools. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in London within an in‐school seclusion unit, this article brings together a Lefebvrian conc…
Mixed Grammars and Tangled Hierarchies
The article is divided into two parts. In the first, I explore what is known about the precontact history of Collingwood Bay based on archaeological, linguistic, and oral evidence. While much must be left to speculation, the evidence strongly suggests that the Bay has long been a meeting point between Austronesian and Papuan peoples. The second and longer part of the paper attends to the political system found in most Collingwood Bay communities.…
The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication
Channels are a means through which people communicate in organizations. Communication channels are important because the core functions of organizations, such as processing information or making and communicating decisions, occur through communication channels. Theories of channel selection show that organizations can be improved if organizational members learn how and when to use the most appropriate channel. New information and communication te…
Drudges, Shrews, and Unfit Mothers
Among the first Europeans to encounter and settle on the southeastern coast of New Guinea, members of the London Missionary Society contributed a large corpus of publications concerning indigenous peoples from the mid-1870s until the rise of professional anthropology in the 1920s. While these works focus mainly on the activities and concerns of men, women provide a key index of “civilization” relative to the working British middle class from whic…
Youth transitions
Whilst Western societies may have reached ‘peak car’, young people are arguably the most significant group whose levels of car ownership, use and driving licence acquisition have declined. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses qualitative research conducted in Reading, UK, considering young people’s (aged 12–20) views about bus travel. Whilst current pricing structures (both in Reading and across the UK) often offer under 18s discounted trav…
The Mothers’ Union goes on strike
This paper explores the story of the formation and subsequent activities of a church women's group in Maisin villages and women's experiences of Christianity more broadly, in relation to the changing production and uses of traditional bark cloth ( tapa ), a signature women's product which has become a marker of Maisin identity. While the influence of the local Mothers’ Union has waxed and waned over the past 60 years, tapa cloth has had a continu…
Key thinkers in childhood studies
Key thinkers in childhood studies: The SAGE handbook of child research." Children's Geographies, 14(1), pp. 124–125
Moral anthropology
"Moral anthropology: a critical reader, edited by Didier Fassin and Samuel Lézé." Anthropological Forum, 25(3), pp. 308–309
Aspirations for automobility
While a burgeoning body of research explores how families shape children’s everyday experiences, less is known about how families influence children’s future aspirations. Drawing on two research projects exploring children’s mobility, this article explores children and young people’s aspirations for cars in adulthood. The article considers what these aspirations can tell us about current and future relationships between children, siblings and par…
Geographers out of place
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
The One and the Many
The emerging field of the anthropology of Christianity appears suspended between two poles: a concern with understanding the continuous and relatively coherent traits of the religious tradition as a whole (the "One"), and the documentation of the highly contingent forms found in local communities (the "Many"). This tension, in turn, feeds sometimes intense debates about whether conversion to Christianity along the modern missionary frontier is be…
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Photography is an increasingly popular research method, used to explore a number of topics with a wide range of social groups, including children and young people. Drawing upon two UK research projects, focused on firstly childcare and secondly children’s mobility, this paper critically considers photography as a research method with children and young people. Firstly, we consider the production of photographs and the need to look behind the lens…
Secondary Conversion and the Anthropology of Christianity in Melanesia
Anthropologists have in recent years turned their attention to Christianity in Melanesia. Much of this new work treats Melanesian Christianity in terms of the confrontation between indigenous "tradition" and global "modernity". However useful for long-term analysis, such dualistic framing distorts our understanding of the present, which is instead characterized by growing sectarianism and secondary conversions. I call for three changes in the way…
Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school
Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools
A growing interest in the geographies of schooling has led to an exploration of a variety of school spaces. An increasing number of secondary schools offer internal fixed‐term exclusions so that temporary removal from school is not seen as ‘time off’ for students. This particular strategy has led to the creation of a new type of space in schools. Drawing upon research undertaken in a London secondary school, this paper explores the geography of t…
Butterflies and barbarians
The varieties of Melanesian Christian experience
Is it fun?” developing children centred research methods
Over the past ten years, geographers have contributed to the growing body of interdisciplinary research developing new ways of undertaking research with children. Traditional research methods which do not directly involve working with children, such as the large scale observation of children, have been criticised for carrying out research on rather than with children. Instead, drawing upon the increasingly important children’s rights movement, re…
The Road Less Travelled - New Directions in Children's and Young People's Mobility
This collection emerges from the intersection of two vibrant, dynamic and expanding academic endeavours. The papers are situated within ‘new’ social‐scientific studies of childhood and youth and al
Driven to Distraction
Cars have become increasingly significant features in the lives of many children and adults in the UK and elsewhere. Whilst there is a growing body of research considering how adults experience automobility, that is the increasingly central role of cars within societies, there has been little equivalent research exploring children's perspectives. Drawing upon a variety of methods including personal diaries, photographs, in-depth interviews and su…
Passengers or political actors? Children's participation in transport policy and the micro political geographies of the family
Transport is currently at the forefront of the political agenda. Successive government transport policies have increased the spatial mobility of the majority of the UK population, largely through encouraging car ownership and use. However, transport and children's geographers have highlighted that children are one social group that face increasing restrictions on their independent spatial mobility. These spatial restrictions are caused in part by…
Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school
Power, Positionality and Practicality
In this paper we provide a reflexive account of fieldwork in out of school clubs in a range of localities across England and Wales. By reflecting upon our personal experiences of researching with children aged between 5 and 12 years, we examine the impact of the positionality of the researcher on the research encounter, and highlight the ways in which relationships between adult researchers and child subjects are gendered. Finally, we identify a …
Christian Bodies
This article examines the impact of a Charismatic youth fellowship movement among the Maisin people of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, in the late 1990s. Drawing upon ethnographic and archival sources, I show that the response conforms to a pattern repeated periodically over a century of regional religious movements focused upon eradicating sorcery and promoting health. Over several generations, Maisin have experienced and interpreted Christianit…
Geography of Methodological Issues in Research with Children
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the methodologies used in research with children. Geographers have contributed to the growing body of research that highlights that children are not simply passive objects dependent on adults, but are competent social actors that make sense of and actively contribute to their environment. The growing trend to conceptualize children as social actors has profound implications for geogra…
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Photography is an increasingly popular research method, used to explore a number of topics with a wide range of social groups, including children and young people. Drawing upon two UK research projects, focused on firstly childcare and secondly children’s mobility, this paper critically considers photography as a research method with children and young people. Firstly, we consider the production of photographs and the need to look behind the lens…
Contested Spaces
Based on research carried out with over 400 children in England and Wales, this article explores the complexity of the social space of the out of school club, an increasingly important environment in the social landscape of British childhood. By exploring the ways in which children construct and contest the meanings they attach to the material and social environments they inhabit after school and during the school holidays, we aim to show how the…
The One and the Many
The emerging field of the anthropology of Christianity appears suspended between two poles: a concern with understanding the continuous and relatively coherent traits of the religious tradition as a whole (the "One"), and the documentation of the highly contingent forms found in local communities (the "Many"). This tension, in turn, feeds sometimes intense debates about whether conversion to Christianity along the modern missionary frontier is be…
Asiwinarong
Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast of that cycle, is invoked by the word asiwinarong, which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence restOriginally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of…
Secondary Conversion and the Anthropology of Christianity in Melanesia
Anthropologists have in recent years turned their attention to Christianity in Melanesia. Much of this new work treats Melanesian Christianity in terms of the confrontation between indigenous "tradition" and global "modernity". However useful for long-term analysis, such dualistic framing distorts our understanding of the present, which is instead characterized by growing sectarianism and secondary conversions. I call for three changes in the way…
Village Inventions
Anthropologists have come to realize that even the most ‘traditional’ Melanesian practices and ideologies may be historically shaped by the people's experiences within encompassing regional systems. This article examines the reshaping of local understandings of the village among the Maisin people of Oro Province over the past century. I distinguish three contexts within which Maisin notions of the village have been formed: colonial models of vill…
Territoriality, enterprise and réglementation in industry governance
The term ‘governance’ is used differently in different literatures. This paper relates the uses of the term and the theoretical concepts to which it is attached in three bodies of literature – the new institutional economics, a geographic literature exploring spatial embeddedness, and the regulation approach. Each adopts a different theoretical point of entry and highlights a particular sphere of governance, centred on the enterprise, people in p…
Self-rated health as a predictor of hospital admission and nursing home placement in elderly public housing tenants
We assessed the validity of self-rated health in a one-year prospective study of 155 elderly public housing tenants. Compared to studies of elderly community residents, tenants had poorer self-rated health, and higher hospital admission and nursing home placement rates. Poor self-rated health was a risk factor for both outcomes. We conclude that self-rated health may be useful in identifying persons at increased risk for hospital admission and nu…
Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools
A growing interest in the geographies of schooling has led to an exploration of a variety of school spaces. An increasing number of secondary schools offer internal fixed‐term exclusions so that temporary removal from school is not seen as ‘time off’ for students. This particular strategy has led to the creation of a new type of space in schools. Drawing upon research undertaken in a London secondary school, this paper explores the geography of t…
The varieties of Melanesian Christian experience
Geographers out of place
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close B runel U niversity's D epartment of G eography and E arth S ciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have remained at B runel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic G eography. In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and elsewhere, has significant implications for both indiv…
Coming back’ Aborigines and archaeologists at Cuddie Springs
Australian archaeologists wishing to undertake research into Aboriginal history in New South Wales are required to consult with local Aboriginal communities and obtain permission to excavate before permits are granted by the government body. We present a case study of Aboriginal community involvement in a major archaeological research project at Cuddie Springs in western NSW. The discussion is based on the experiences of the project director and …
Encounters With Evil
Cheerful pragmatists
The Anthropology of Christianity. Fenella Cannell The Limits of Meaning
Commodifying the countryside
The growing interest in rural geography has highlighted that symbolic representations of the ‘rural idyll’ are often contradictory to the lived experiences of many rural children. Increasingly, children's spatial mobility is restricted due to adult concerns over children's use of public space, and the continuing privatization of rural space. Whilst children are prevented from using the countryside as a resource, there is also a lack of provision …
The wider relevance of undertaking research with children
This special edition of Children’s Geographies is the second in a set of two special issues arising from the Emerging Issues in Children’s Geographies conference held at Brunel University in June 2005 (The first issue in this collection appeared in Children’s Geographies, 4 (3)). The conference attracted a wealth of innovative work that sought to build on existing strengths and to stretch current conceptual and methodological developments both wi…
Recent Literature
Mihaia. The Prophet Rua Kenana and His Community at Maungapohatu
Rua Kenana was one of many Maori prophetic leaders of the 19th and 20th centuries. He called himself Te Mihaia hou, the new messiah, and was the leader of a section of the Tuhoe at a time when their land, the Urewera country, was threatened by possible prospecting and milling. Withdrawing to Maungapohatu, in the heart of Urewera, he established a community. This work is a history of Rua and his people, of the destruction of the community, by the …
The Life of Some Island People of New Guinea. Karl BÖHM
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings
Self-rated health as a predictor of hospital admission and nursing home placement in elderly public housing tenants
We assessed the validity of self-rated health in a one-year prospective study of 155 elderly public housing tenants. Compared to studies of elderly community residents, tenants had poorer self-rated health, and higher hospital admission and nursing home placement rates. Poor self-rated health was a risk factor for both outcomes. We conclude that self-rated health may be useful in identifying persons at increased risk for hospital admission and nu…
New Ethnographies
T. F. Mcllwraith and Anthropology at the University of Toronto 1925‐63
Thomas Forsyth McIlwraith a PtP le premier et pendant longtemps le seul anthropologue professionnel a enseigner dans une universiti canadienne. Cet article examine le rBle de McIlwraith au travail musiographique du Musie Royal de I'Ontario, au diveloppement d'un programme de recherches archiologiques dans l'ontario, et i l'introduction de cours d'anthropologie P l'Universit6 de Toronto. A partir d'un manuscrit inedit de J. Norman Emerson et d'aut…
Cheerful pragmatists
Asiwinarong
Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast of that cycle, is invoked by the word asiwinarong, which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence restOriginally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The Indians of Puget Sound
Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest
Malinowski among the Magi
Women's Facial Tattooing Among the Maisin of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea
The Maisin women of northeastern Papua New Guinea are among the last coastal Papuans to tattoo their faces. This article first describes the techniques and social process of Maisin tattooing. We then examine the resilience of the custom in light of changes in puberty rites and notions of gender. We argue that these contexts have lost their cultural salience as a result of the Maisins' incorporation into the larger Papua New Guinea society. Tattoo…
Encounters With Evil
New ethnographies for old
Romanucci‐Ross, Lola. Mead's Other Manus: Phenomenology of the Encounter. Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1985. xxii + 230 pp. including maps, pictures, appendices, references and selected bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth
Oceania Volumes 1 and 2
Missionary Lives
Abstracts of the 14th International Radiocarbon Conference
Experiments were started in 1984 at the Geological Survey of Finland (GSF) with a new 14C dating system that consists of a passive shield of 90-year-old iron, a liquid-scintillation anticoincidence guard and three CO2 proportional counters of conventional size. The counting room is an air- conditioned Faraday cage constructed of limestone concrete
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society
The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding
Important discoveries in private and public archives have recently brought to light many new letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist Sarah Fielding (1710-68). Published here for the first time is their entire extant correspondence, edited with an Introduction and explanatory annotations - 77 letters from and to Henry Fielding written over the years 1727 to 1754, and 33 letters from and to Sarah Fielding …
Identity Through History
Footsteps in the Sea
Big Men & Great Men
Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements
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