Robert L Winzeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 138756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Winzeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Winzeler |
| SIGNATURE | WINZELER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo
Among Borneo's spectacular indigenous buildings, the longhouses, mortuary monuments, and other architectural forms of the interior are some of the most outstanding, and much of the renewed interest in indigenous architecture has focused on the rapidly vanishing or now extinct traditional forms of a small number of surviving examples or recreations. Drawing on the author's extensive research and travel in Borneo, this impressive and original study…
Religious Transitions in Twentieth Century Southeast Asia
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Please check back later for the full article. The diverse religions of the peoples of Southeast Asia include indigenous traditions of supernaturally oriented beliefs and practices plus four of the largest world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. The main changes that have taken place in religion in 20th-century Southeast …
They Lie, We Lie: Gettingon With Anthropology, Peter Metcalf
The title of this elegantly written book about Peter Metcalf’s fieldwork among the longhouse-dwelling Berawan of northern central Borneo has a double meaning. In literal terms, the phrase “They lie, we lie” is a translation of a formulaic opening used by a Berawan elder to begin her narration of a sacred epic. The author regards the statement as profound and, therefore, offers no exact interpretation of its meaning except to say that it is defini…
Judith Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life
Tom Harrisson, who died suddenly in an automobile accident in Thailand a quarter of a century ago, distinguished himself in various areas, first at an early age as an ornithologist, then soon after as an author of a best-selling book (Savage Civilization) on Melanesian tribal society and change in the New Hebrides, then as one of the founders of Mass Observation studies in Great-Britain. Judith Heimann’s welcome, carefully researched and detailed…
Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land, and Ethnicity in the Malaysian Peninsula and Borneo
Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Culture Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia
Is Latah Always Fakery and Deception
Latah in South-East Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome
The seen and the unseen: Shamanism, mediumship and possession in Borneo
Ethnic Relations in Kelantan: A Study of the Chinese and Thai as Ethnic Minorities in a Malay State
The study of Malay magic
To protect the soul-substance of his staple food-plant, the Malay peasant, conservative as agriculturalists all the world over, is content with the primitive ritual of the animist, covered for decency's sake with a thin veneer of later religions.Sir Richard Winstedt (1961:103) "Again and again I have tried to abandon this inconvenient system [of coinage]", said a Pahang Prince to Abdullah Munchi; "but the tigers took to eating men, and the crocod…
Ethnology: The Mystical World of Indonesia: Culture and Economic Development in Conflict. Allen M. Sievers
On Nias and Southeast Asian State Formation
More on Southeast Asian Ecology and State Formation
On Soviet Ethnography and State Formation in Southeast Asia
Ethnic Differences and Economic Change in a Local Malaysian Setting
As the first town beyond the major east-coast border complex the town tends not only to be a center of local but also of trans-border trade, the point through which large quantities of goods-rice, livestock, fruits, cloth and clothing-from Thailand pass legally and illegally into Malaya, some destined for local Kelantan markets, some to move southward to the major markets of the west coast.Surrounding the town on three sides, and across the river…
Ecology, Culture, Social Organization, and State Formation in Southeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
In this paper I call attention to the significance of Southeast Asia to discussions of the nature of state formation. While it is now apparent that certain phases of cultural evolution came early in Southeast Asia, the state was a late and, in some respects, incomplete development. Southeast Asian states do not appear to have developed into the fully centralized, highly stratified, totalitarian regimes held to typify other regions of Asia, such a…
Malinowski's Magic: The Riddle of the Empty Cell [and Comments and Reply]
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Peasant Citizens: Politics, Religion, and Modernization in Kelantan, Malaysia
Ethnic Complexity and Ethnic Relations in an East-Coast Malay Town
Sex Role Equality, Wet Rice Cultivation, and the State in Southeast Asia
Ethnic Relations in Kelantan: A Study of the Chinese and Thai as Ethnic Minorities in a Malay State
Ecology, Culture, Social Organization, and State Formation in Southeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
In this paper I call attention to the significance of Southeast Asia to discussions of the nature of state formation. While it is now apparent that certain phases of cultural evolution came early in Southeast Asia, the state was a late and, in some respects, incomplete development. Southeast Asian states do not appear to have developed into the fully centralized, highly stratified, totalitarian regimes held to typify other regions of Asia, such a…
Sex Role Equality, Wet Rice Cultivation, and the State in Southeast Asia
The study of Malay magic
To protect the soul-substance of his staple food-plant, the Malay peasant, conservative as agriculturalists all the world over, is content with the primitive ritual of the animist, covered for decency's sake with a thin veneer of later religions.Sir Richard Winstedt (1961:103) "Again and again I have tried to abandon this inconvenient system [of coinage]", said a Pahang Prince to Abdullah Munchi; "but the tigers took to eating men, and the crocod…
Ethnic Complexity and Ethnic Relations in an East-Coast Malay Town
Malinowski's Magic: The Riddle of the Empty Cell [and Comments and Reply]
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Latah in South-East Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome
Ethnic Complexity and Ethnic Relations in an East-Coast Malay Town
Sex Role Equality, Wet Rice Cultivation, and the State in Southeast Asia
Ethnic Differences and Economic Change in a Local Malaysian Setting
As the first town beyond the major east-coast border complex the town tends not only to be a center of local but also of trans-border trade, the point through which large quantities of goods-rice, livestock, fruits, cloth and clothing-from Thailand pass legally and illegally into Malaya, some destined for local Kelantan markets, some to move southward to the major markets of the west coast.Surrounding the town on three sides, and across the river…
Ecology, Culture, Social Organization, and State Formation in Southeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
In this paper I call attention to the significance of Southeast Asia to discussions of the nature of state formation. While it is now apparent that certain phases of cultural evolution came early in Southeast Asia, the state was a late and, in some respects, incomplete development. Southeast Asian states do not appear to have developed into the fully centralized, highly stratified, totalitarian regimes held to typify other regions of Asia, such a…
Malinowski's Magic: The Riddle of the Empty Cell [and Comments and Reply]
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Peasant Citizens: Politics, Religion, and Modernization in Kelantan, Malaysia
Ethnology: The Mystical World of Indonesia: Culture and Economic Development in Conflict. Allen M. Sievers
On Nias and Southeast Asian State Formation
More on Southeast Asian Ecology and State Formation
On Soviet Ethnography and State Formation in Southeast Asia
The study of Malay magic
To protect the soul-substance of his staple food-plant, the Malay peasant, conservative as agriculturalists all the world over, is content with the primitive ritual of the animist, covered for decency's sake with a thin veneer of later religions.Sir Richard Winstedt (1961:103) "Again and again I have tried to abandon this inconvenient system [of coinage]", said a Pahang Prince to Abdullah Munchi; "but the tigers took to eating men, and the crocod…
Ethnic Relations in Kelantan: A Study of the Chinese and Thai as Ethnic Minorities in a Malay State
The seen and the unseen: Shamanism, mediumship and possession in Borneo
Latah in South-East Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome
Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land, and Ethnicity in the Malaysian Peninsula and Borneo
Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Culture Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia
Is Latah Always Fakery and Deception
Judith Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life
Tom Harrisson, who died suddenly in an automobile accident in Thailand a quarter of a century ago, distinguished himself in various areas, first at an early age as an ornithologist, then soon after as an author of a best-selling book (Savage Civilization) on Melanesian tribal society and change in the New Hebrides, then as one of the founders of Mass Observation studies in Great-Britain. Judith Heimann’s welcome, carefully researched and detailed…
They Lie, We Lie: Gettingon With Anthropology, Peter Metcalf
The title of this elegantly written book about Peter Metcalf’s fieldwork among the longhouse-dwelling Berawan of northern central Borneo has a double meaning. In literal terms, the phrase “They lie, we lie” is a translation of a formulaic opening used by a Berawan elder to begin her narration of a sacred epic. The author regards the statement as profound and, therefore, offers no exact interpretation of its meaning except to say that it is defini…
Religious Transitions in Twentieth Century Southeast Asia
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Please check back later for the full article. The diverse religions of the peoples of Southeast Asia include indigenous traditions of supernaturally oriented beliefs and practices plus four of the largest world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. The main changes that have taken place in religion in 20th-century Southeast …
The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo
Among Borneo's spectacular indigenous buildings, the longhouses, mortuary monuments, and other architectural forms of the interior are some of the most outstanding, and much of the renewed interest in indigenous architecture has focused on the rapidly vanishing or now extinct traditional forms of a small number of surviving examples or recreations. Drawing on the author's extensive research and travel in Borneo, this impressive and original study…
Asian Studies and History (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Law (7 works)