Alan Barnard

Biographic Data

ID3611545
NAMEAlan Barnard
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEBarnard
SIGNATUREBARNARD A
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia
ORCID0000-0002-9037-9952
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS110
TOTAL CITATIONS915
AUTHOR COUNT108
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX13

  • Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

    Alan Barnard, Gerd Baumann et al.BOOKCulture Wars2022

    The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoreti…

  • History and Theory in Anthropology

    Open AccessAlan BarnardBOOKHistory and Theory in Anthropology2021

    In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about …

  • The Public Role of Churches in Early Responses to Covid-19 in Africa: Snapshots from Nigeria, Congo, Kenya and South Africa

    Open AccessEmma Wild-Wood, Lorna Grant et al.ARTICLEStudies in World Christianity2021Cited by: 2

    The public role of Christianity in Africa has gained increased attention from scholars. This article gives four snapshots of the responses of churches to COVID-19 in Africa in the early weeks of disease spread on the continent. In many countries, churches are at the forefront of formal and informal health delivery and disease control, through medical services and faith healing. An examination of different approaches of Christian communities to th…

  • An Original Affluent Society?

    Alan BarnardCHAPTERAnthropology and the Bushman2020

  • Anthropology and the Bushman

    Alan BarnardBOOKAnthropology and the Bushman2020

  • Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology

    Alan BarnardBOOKHunter-Gatherers in History,…2020

  • Bushmen: Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers and Their Descendants

    Open AccessAlan BarnardBOOKBushmen2019Cited by: 8References: 63

    The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a unity is not as strange as it may seem, for they share a common origin: they are an original hunter-gatherer population of southern Africa with a history of many thousands …

  • H xaro

    Open AccessAlan BarnardOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Hxaro is a formalized gift‐giving custom found among some Bushman or San groups in the northern Kalahari. The initial “h” is not pronounced but is there simply to indicate, for English‐speakers lacking a glottal fricative, that the x is to be pronounced. In some dialects it is known as //' ãe , which is the relevant verb. It is also, and more correctly, written as xaro

  • Hunter‐Gatherers

    Open AccessAlan BarnardOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Hunter‐gatherers are those people who live by hunting animals, gathering wild plants, and fishing alone. They have no agriculture and therefore no experience of the domestication of crops or of animals. In recent years, though, this conventional understanding of hunter‐gatherer subsistence has been relaxed, and some whose ancestors had in the past been pure hunter‐gatherers are now thought of as maintaining a hunter‐gatherer ethos if not a mode o…

  • Archaeology and anthropology: A Growing Divide

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEAntiquity2018

    The three volumes reviewed here have different origins but a common theme: all try to put some social or cultural anthropology into, or back into, archaeology. In the United Kingdom these are separate disciplines anyway, but in North America they are usually taught in the same department and have similar interests. The problem is that they are growing apart

  • Egalitarian and Non-Egalitarian Sociality

    Open AccessAlan BarnardCHAPTERHuman Nature and Social Life2017

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  • Nothing wrong with reasoned speculation

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEAntiquity2016References: 3

    In essence, Pargeter et al. argue that claims for the antiquity of modern San 'cultures' involve a misuse of analogical reasoning. In general, I agree. But, let me take issue with a few of the specifics they discuss, and argue instead that things may be more complicated than they seem

  • Unity versus Interdisciplinarity: A Future for Anthropology

    Alan BarnardARTICLECurrent Anthropology2016Cited by: 5References: 25

    This paper explores the failure of anthropology, at least since the 1970s, to look at the big picture: what the four fields can contribute to each other. It focuses on kinship as a key example, on other aspects of sociality, and on language and symbolic thought. I argue that an understanding of humanity as a whole, and especially hunter-gatherers, is important for grasping the nature of the human species. Cultural or social anthropology progresse…

  • Language in Prehistory

    Open AccessAlan BarnardBOOKLanguage in Prehistory2015

    For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is…

  • Defining hunter-gatherers

    Alan BarnardBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the…2013

  • Lavenda, Robert H., and Emily A. Schultz: Anthropology. What Does It Mean to Be Human

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEAnthropos2013

    Anthropos , Seite 335 - 336

  • Genesis of Symbolic Thought

    Open AccessAlan BarnardBOOKGenesis of Symbolic Thought2012

    Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Genesis of Symbolic Thought applies ideas from social anthropology, old and new, to understand some of the areas also being explored in fields …

  • The origin of our species - By Chris Stringer

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2012

  • Social Anthropology and Human Origins

    Open AccessAlan BarnardBOOKSocial Anthropology and Human…2011

    The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social anthropological theory has much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution, including changes in technology, subsistence and exchange, famil…

  • Obituary: David Riches 1947-2011

    Alan BarnardARTICLEHunter Gatherer Research2011

  • Schizophrenia and the Progression of Emotional Expression in Relation to Others

    Open AccessJames A Le Lievre, Robert D Schweitzer et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2011References: 20

    Gaining an improved understanding of people diagnosed with schizophrenia has the potential to influence priorities for therapy. Psychosis is commonly understood through the perspective of the medical model. However, the experience of social context surrounding psychosis is not well understood. In this research project we used a phenomenological methodology with a longitudinal design to interview 7 participants across a 12-month period to understa…

  • Interactions between hunter-gatherers and farmers: From prehistory to present - Edited by Kazunobu Ikeya, Hidefumi Ogawa & Peter Mitchell

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2010

  • Social origins: Sharing, exchange, kinship

    Alan BarnardCHAPTERThe cradle of language2009

    This chapter considers three social aspects of the emergence of language: sharing, exchange, and kinship. I shall argue that the earliest full language coincided with the development of other forms of communication, including human kinship—with sharing practices and rules, marital alliance, kin classification, and ultimately kin category extension to the limits of social systems. Virtually all human hunter-gatherer societies retain completely uni…

  • To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.ARTICLECritical African Studies2009Cited by: 4References: 50

    Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…

  • Nharo Kinship in Social and Cosmological Perspective: Comparisons between Southern African and Australian Hunter-Gatherers

    Open AccessAlan BarnardARTICLEMankind2009References: 20