T Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 12021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7147-8672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1909 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sociality, Value, and Symbolic Complexes among the Makassar of Indonesia
This paper explores the concepts of value and sociality in the lives of human subjects living in the village of Ara, South Sulawesi, Indonesia in the 1980s. Every individual engaged in several forms of sociality that were associated with different sets of values. As members of noble houses and kingdoms, they interacted with nonhuman subjects such as ancestor spirits and valued their ascribed social rank. As Muslims living in a cosmos structured a…
Valeurs politiques et assemblages ontologiques chez les Buid et les Makassar (Asie du Sud-Est insulaire)
Cet article compare les Buid de Mindoro (Philippines) et des Makassar du Sud de Sulawesi (Indonésie), afin de mettre en lumière deux conceptions totalement différentes de l'égalitarisme et de la hiérarchie. Ces groupes ont été choisis au départ précisément parce qu'ils se situent aux extrémités opposées d'un continuum d'attitudes à l'égard de ces valeurs dans la région peu intégrée de l'Asie du Sud-Est insulaire. Au début de la période moderne, l…
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Austronesia
The current collection of articles includes a discussion of Austronesian peoples living in modern nations situated in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Melanesia. It thus crosses many long-established boundaries in area studies which tend to develop their own theoretical dialects. While there are many valid reasons for these theoretical discussions, a shift in focus from geographically defined areas to what might be called ‘Greater Austronesi…
From Tribal Hut to Royal Palace: The Dialectic of Equality and Hierarchy in Austronesian Southeast Asia
In this paper, I will compare and contrast the Austronesian symbolic elements of the two social formations within which I have conducted extensive ethnographic and archival research, that of the highly egalitarian Buid of Mindoro, Philippines and that of the equally hierarchical Makassar of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. I will demonstrate both that their cosmological structures are built out of common symbolic elements and that these structures coul…
And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar
Over the course of a thousand years, from 600 to 1600 CE, the Java Sea was dominated by a ring of maritime kingdoms whose rulers engaged in long-distance raiding, trading, and marriage alliances with one another. And the Sun Pursued the Moon explores the economic, political, and symbolic processes by which early Makassar communities were incorporated into this regional system. As successive empires like Srivijaya, Kediri, Majapahit, and Melaka ga…
Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
The Hero Legend in Colonial Southeast Asia
Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, this article argues that hero legends generated metaphors from concrete relationships in the domestic domain to conceptualize abstract relationships in a series of other domains. The hero pattern underwent transfor…
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice: A Situated Practice of Situated Learning
This book explores the concept of situated learning through the lens of apprenticeship, arguing that learning is fundamentally a social and practical activity embedded within specific communities of practice. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger draw on ethnographic research across diverse settings, including Yucatec midwives, Vai and Gola tailors in Liberia, and US butchers, to illustrate how newcomers become integrated into these communities through le…
Rationality and Irrationality in Anthropology (In and Out of the West): Reconstructing Anthropology- By Maurice Godelier
From Stranger-King to Stranger-Shaikh: Austronesian symbolism and Islamic knowledge
Three political institutions came into being successively in Southeast Asia and co-existed for several centuries: stranger-kingship, cosmopolitan law and bureaucratic rationality. Each was based on a different set of practices, and each served to estrange political authorities from their subjects. Firstly, cosmological rituals placed the stranger-king above the factional loyalties of his subjects. Secondly, cosmopolitan legal codes and mystical p…
Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the 21st Century
This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notion
Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
Islam and the Spirit Cults in New Order Indonesia: Global Flows vs. Local Knowledge
On May 9,1998, on the eve of the end of the New Order, the New York Times carried this incisive analysis of events by "an Indonesian specialist considered by many of his peers to be the leading anthropologist of his generation":Professor Clifford Geertz said that in the tradition-laden culture of the central Indonesian island of Java . . .parents dote on their children in ways that other societies would consider indulgent, even excessive."Javanes…
Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines
The confidence to interact
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Wagering the Land: Ritual Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986
Living in a Lean-To: Philippine Negrito Foragers in Transition
Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis
De la hutte au palais: Societes a maison en asie du sud-est insulaire
Social/Cultural Anthropology: L'Eloignement du Ciel: Invention et Mémoire des Mythes chez les Palawan du Sud des Philippines. Charles Macdonald
Culture & History
The Sharing of Substance Versus the Sharing of Activity Among the Buid
Kudaman: Une epopee palawan chantee par Usuj
Toward a Stable Low-Input Highland Agricultural System: Ley Farming in Imperata cylindrica Grasslands of Northern Thailand
T. Gibson, Toward a Stable Low-Input Highland Agricultural System: Ley Farming in Imperata cylindrica Grasslands of Northern Thailand, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, Natural Resource Development and Environmental Stability in the Highlands of Northern Thailand (Nov., 1983), pp. 378-385
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice: A Situated Practice of Situated Learning
This book explores the concept of situated learning through the lens of apprenticeship, arguing that learning is fundamentally a social and practical activity embedded within specific communities of practice. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger draw on ethnographic research across diverse settings, including Yucatec midwives, Vai and Gola tailors in Liberia, and US butchers, to illustrate how newcomers become integrated into these communities through le…
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
The Sharing of Substance Versus the Sharing of Activity Among the Buid
Islam and the Spirit Cults in New Order Indonesia: Global Flows vs. Local Knowledge
On May 9,1998, on the eve of the end of the New Order, the New York Times carried this incisive analysis of events by "an Indonesian specialist considered by many of his peers to be the leading anthropologist of his generation":Professor Clifford Geertz said that in the tradition-laden culture of the central Indonesian island of Java . . .parents dote on their children in ways that other societies would consider indulgent, even excessive."Javanes…
Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines
De la hutte au palais: Societes a maison en asie du sud-est insulaire
Valeurs politiques et assemblages ontologiques chez les Buid et les Makassar (Asie du Sud-Est insulaire)
Cet article compare les Buid de Mindoro (Philippines) et des Makassar du Sud de Sulawesi (Indonésie), afin de mettre en lumière deux conceptions totalement différentes de l'égalitarisme et de la hiérarchie. Ces groupes ont été choisis au départ précisément parce qu'ils se situent aux extrémités opposées d'un continuum d'attitudes à l'égard de ces valeurs dans la région peu intégrée de l'Asie du Sud-Est insulaire. Au début de la période moderne, l…
From Tribal Hut to Royal Palace: The Dialectic of Equality and Hierarchy in Austronesian Southeast Asia
In this paper, I will compare and contrast the Austronesian symbolic elements of the two social formations within which I have conducted extensive ethnographic and archival research, that of the highly egalitarian Buid of Mindoro, Philippines and that of the equally hierarchical Makassar of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. I will demonstrate both that their cosmological structures are built out of common symbolic elements and that these structures coul…
Kudaman: Une epopee palawan chantee par Usuj
Sociality, Value, and Symbolic Complexes among the Makassar of Indonesia
This paper explores the concepts of value and sociality in the lives of human subjects living in the village of Ara, South Sulawesi, Indonesia in the 1980s. Every individual engaged in several forms of sociality that were associated with different sets of values. As members of noble houses and kingdoms, they interacted with nonhuman subjects such as ancestor spirits and valued their ascribed social rank. As Muslims living in a cosmos structured a…
The Hero Legend in Colonial Southeast Asia
Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, this article argues that hero legends generated metaphors from concrete relationships in the domestic domain to conceptualize abstract relationships in a series of other domains. The hero pattern underwent transfor…
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Austronesia
The current collection of articles includes a discussion of Austronesian peoples living in modern nations situated in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Melanesia. It thus crosses many long-established boundaries in area studies which tend to develop their own theoretical dialects. While there are many valid reasons for these theoretical discussions, a shift in focus from geographically defined areas to what might be called ‘Greater Austronesi…
The Securities Market as an Index of Business Conditions
Influences Affecting Security Prices and Values
In discussing the above question it is all-important to bear in mind that the word &dquo;values&dquo; refers to one thing, and the word &dquo;prices&dquo; refers to another and very different thing.Both are important, but in choosing a time to sell or buy securities we are primarily interested in prices as compared to values.Our great opportunities are created when the two are divorced.If prices and values always moved in consonance, our opportun…
Robert Watt: Physician and Bibliographer
ARCHIBALD L. GOODALL, THOMAS GIBSON; Robert Watt: Physician and Bibliographer, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XVIII, Issue
Sri Lanka: Economic Growth and Equity
Sri Lanka's post-war history might at first appear to run counter to the traditional teachings of growth and development. Despite its relatively poor economic performance over the post-war period, Sri Lanka has gained an enviable reputation for providing its citizenry with a much higher quality of life than many countries with substantially better economic performance. It has been suggested that the Sri Lankan experience provides a model with whi…
Toward a Stable Low-Input Highland Agricultural System: Ley Farming in Imperata cylindrica Grasslands of Northern Thailand
T. Gibson, Toward a Stable Low-Input Highland Agricultural System: Ley Farming in Imperata cylindrica Grasslands of Northern Thailand, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, Natural Resource Development and Environmental Stability in the Highlands of Northern Thailand (Nov., 1983), pp. 378-385
Kudaman: Une epopee palawan chantee par Usuj
The Sharing of Substance Versus the Sharing of Activity Among the Buid
Culture & History
De la hutte au palais: Societes a maison en asie du sud-est insulaire
Social/Cultural Anthropology: L'Eloignement du Ciel: Invention et Mémoire des Mythes chez les Palawan du Sud des Philippines. Charles Macdonald
Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis
Living in a Lean-To: Philippine Negrito Foragers in Transition
Wagering the Land: Ritual Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
The confidence to interact
Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines
Islam and the Spirit Cults in New Order Indonesia: Global Flows vs. Local Knowledge
On May 9,1998, on the eve of the end of the New Order, the New York Times carried this incisive analysis of events by "an Indonesian specialist considered by many of his peers to be the leading anthropologist of his generation":Professor Clifford Geertz said that in the tradition-laden culture of the central Indonesian island of Java . . .parents dote on their children in ways that other societies would consider indulgent, even excessive."Javanes…
Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the 21st Century
This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notion
From Stranger-King to Stranger-Shaikh: Austronesian symbolism and Islamic knowledge
Three political institutions came into being successively in Southeast Asia and co-existed for several centuries: stranger-kingship, cosmopolitan law and bureaucratic rationality. Each was based on a different set of practices, and each served to estrange political authorities from their subjects. Firstly, cosmological rituals placed the stranger-king above the factional loyalties of his subjects. Secondly, cosmopolitan legal codes and mystical p…
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice: A Situated Practice of Situated Learning
This book explores the concept of situated learning through the lens of apprenticeship, arguing that learning is fundamentally a social and practical activity embedded within specific communities of practice. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger draw on ethnographic research across diverse settings, including Yucatec midwives, Vai and Gola tailors in Liberia, and US butchers, to illustrate how newcomers become integrated into these communities through le…
Rationality and Irrationality in Anthropology (In and Out of the West): Reconstructing Anthropology- By Maurice Godelier
The Hero Legend in Colonial Southeast Asia
Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, this article argues that hero legends generated metaphors from concrete relationships in the domestic domain to conceptualize abstract relationships in a series of other domains. The hero pattern underwent transfor…
Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar
Over the course of a thousand years, from 600 to 1600 CE, the Java Sea was dominated by a ring of maritime kingdoms whose rulers engaged in long-distance raiding, trading, and marriage alliances with one another. And the Sun Pursued the Moon explores the economic, political, and symbolic processes by which early Makassar communities were incorporated into this regional system. As successive empires like Srivijaya, Kediri, Majapahit, and Melaka ga…
Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Philippine History and Culture (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)