Victor T King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor T King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor T |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING V T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0583-1976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Angela Ruth Hobart (1939–2025)
Angela Hobart in Ascona, Switzerland, 2017. Photo: Maya Hobart.A portrait of Angela Hobart in Ascona, Switzerland, 2017, smiling at the camera while seated outdoors beside blooming garden flowers.I...
Re-Orienting Ikat Textiles and Ethnicity in Borneo: An innovative approach
Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 transitions: Case study on the Lao PDR
Purpose The purpose of this review paper is to investigate the consequences of tourism development and economic growth within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, focusing specifically on Lao PDR post-pandemic. The adverse effect of COVID-19 on tourism and economic sectors has been pervasive across the ASEAN region, with varying degrees of impact. Some of these difficulties are set to continue, though there are positive s…
A pilot study of virtual Harm Reduction Talking Circles for American Indian and Alaska Native adults with alcohol use disorder
Prior research suggests that culturally aligned, accessible and lower‐barrier interventions are well‐placed to align with the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Taking into account community members' suggestions and the need for physical distancing during the COVID‐19 pandemic, our team developed a protocol for virtual Harm Reduction Talking Circles (HaRTC) to incorporate these points. The a…
Content Analysis Informing the Development of Adapted Harm Reduction Talking Circles (HaRTC) with Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives Experiencing Alcohol Use Disorder
Prior studies with Native populations have highlighted concerns about the cultural acceptability of highly directive, Eurocentric approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and 12-step programs in treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). When asked in a prior qualitative study how they would redesign AUD treatment, urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) participants reported wanting more low-barrier, harm-reduction treatment options, N…
A Tribute to Professor Jan Wisseman Christie (1947-2021)
It is with great sadness that I write this obituary on behalf of Jan Christie.I could hardly bring myself to write this when I heard of her death from cancer in February 2021 from her husband, Clive Christie.She was a dear friend and colleague during the 30 years that I was privileged to work with her.I spoke to her on the phone in December 2020 and within two months from that phone call she had left us.I studied and taught with her and Clive Chr…
Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia: Critical Perspectives
Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia
Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia
Prologue: Rehearsing the Self and Reflexivity: Notions of Self from Two Anthropologists
Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia
Besides the more obvious threats and impediments to human security posed by conflict or natural disaster, a central problem in examining and addressing multiple insecurities in Southeast Asia is at what level. Each country confronts a different context of human security and faces a host of intersecting circumstances that render situational day-to-day forms of precariousness difficult to recognise and interpret. How then are we to proceed? This ar…
Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics: Contentious Issues
Tourism in South-East Asia
Tourism and Monarchy in Southeast Asia
Tourism and Erik Cohen in Thailand: Comparisons, Impacts, Mobilities and Encounters
The leading scholar in research in the feld of tourism in Thailand is Professor \nErik Cohen. Not only has he contributed to the store of empirical material on \nThailand on a wide range of tourism-related subjects, but he has been involved in \nan important series of debates about theories and paradigms in the sociologicalanthropological study of tourism. These debates examine the appropriate concepts \nto be deployed in understanding leisure ac…
Tourism and Ethnodevelopment
Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-Determination
Tourism and ethnodevelopmentAn introduction
The concept of ethno development, sometimes rendered as ethno-development, is now well established in the development studies literature, and though it is not so well known in the field of tourism studies. This chapter focuses on collective and organisational responses to development projects and to the changes which ensue from government and other policy and practical interventions in ethnic tourism and ecotourism, and covers the theme of &s;Eth…
Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture
"This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary fields of the social sciences, with the weight of attention devoted to anthropological research and related fields such as development studies, gender studies, environmental studies, social policy studies and cultural studies. Some of the chapters in this book are extende…
Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
Identities, Nations and Ethnicities: A Critical Comparative Study from Southeast Asia
The paper focuses on images of identity in Southeast Asia and argues that it is analytically useful to distinguish these identities and their "modes of representation" at different levels or scales of magnitude.In this regard, it is necessary to examine images of nationhood or the identities expressed and displayed at the national level in interaction with identities at the sub-national level which comprise what are usually referred to as ethnic …
Claiming Authority: Derek Freeman, His Legacy and Interpretations of the Iban of Borneo
The anthropological enterprise of translating other cultures is explored in the case of the Iban of Borneo. Derek Freeman’s demonstration of authority in his analyses of Iban religion and social organization, his establishment of a lineage of authority, and his development of an evolutionary biological-cultural interactionist paradigm is critically evaluated. Freeman’s legacy of authority, as expressed in Michael Heppell’s detailed interpretation…
Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia
Identity, material culture and tourism: Of ritual cloths and totem poles
In this study of the relationships between identity, material culture and tourism some of the different roles of the anthropologist in engaging with the wider field of cultural identity are examined. It commences with the approach of the conceptually-oriented anthropologist in addressing issues of culture, identity and ethnicity. Then it explores the role of the anthropologist in an applied mode with regard to the ritual cloths of the Iban of Sar…
Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century
Now an energy-rich sultanate, for centuries an important trading port in the South China Sea, Brunei has taken a different direction than its Persian Gulf peers. Immigration is restricted, and Brunei's hydrocarbon wealth is invested conservatively, mostly outside the country. Today home to some 393,000 inhabitants and comprising 5,765 square kilometers in area, Brunei first appears in the historical record at the end of the 10th century. After th…
Tourism in South-East Asia
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
Professional Middle Class Youth in Post-Reform Vietnam: Identity, Continuity and Change
There is very little information or analysis on middle class youth in Vietnam. This paper begins to fill this gap in our knowledge by utilising data on urban, educated professional youth from the Survey Assessment of Vietnamese Youth (2003-04) and an ethnographic investigation in Hanoi between 1999 and 2002. It considers some of the conceptual and analytical issues in addressing the character and definition of the middle class in Southeast Asia m…
The Peoples of Borneo
Preface. List of Plates. List of Maps. List of Tables. 1. The Island of Borneo: General Perspectives. 2. The People. 3. Prehistory: Australoids and Mongoloids. 4. India, China and Islam. 5. Europeans and Borneo: From Early Trade to Independence. 6. Economic Systems. 7. Socio-Political Organization. 8. Worldview and Religion. 9. Material Culture. 10. Modernization and Development. References. Index
Some Aspects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan
The nineteenth century witnessed extensive Iban migrations from the upper Batang Lupar riverI in Sarawak's Second Division. The majority of Iban moved via the nearby Kapuas lakes and the Leboyan and Embaloh2 rivers of Dutch West Borneo (now West Kalimantan) and on to the Rejang basin the Third Division of Sarawak. However, much of the scholarly work which has been done on these important indigenous movements has focused on them in a Sarawak conte…
A Question of Identity: Names, Societies, and Ethnic Groups in Interior Kalimantan and Brunei Darussalam
Issues of ethnic identity and nomenclature loom large in the recent anthropological literature on Borneo. The difficulties of delineating and naming ethnic categories and groups can be aptly illustrated in two recent debates: one on the nature of traditional Maloh society in the Upper Kapuas region of West Kalimantan and the appropriateness of the ethnic label Maloh, and the other on the definition and characterization of Brunei society. The two …
Discourses with the past: Tourism and heritage in South-East Asia
This special issue is intended to explore in some empirical detail the relationships between culture (including ethnicity) nature, tourism, development, and political action, and in this connection to focus specifically on what is widely called ‘heritage’ and its conceptualization and representation in South-East Asia. Heritage is both a narrow concept, literally ‘what is or may be inherited’ (Little Oxford English Dictionary, 1996: 294), and a b…
Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
Encounters and Mobilities: Conceptual Issues in Tourism Studies in Southeast Asia
There have been recent attempts to advance research in tourism studies and to redefine the rationale and focus of this field of study. Erik Cohen and Scott A. Cohen have published important and stimulating papers in a recent exercise aimed at rethinking the sociological and anthropological analysis of tourism. They propose a “mobilities” paradigm as a conceptual way forward. However, with reference to Southeast Asian research material the establi…
Models and Realities: Malaysian National Planning and East Malaysian Development Problems
In this paper my main empirical data are taken from the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, but much of what I say applies equally to the other East Malaysian state of Sabah. What is more, my argument is relevant in large part to the southern two-thirds of the island of Borneo-that is, to the four provinces of Indonesian Borneo or Kalimantan. For the purposes of this discussion I have to treat the small, newly independent oil-rich sultanate of Brune…
Some observations on the Samin movement of North-Central Java. Suggestions for the theoretical analysis of the dynamics of rural unrest
In recent years the Samin peasant movement of north-central Java has received a good deal of attention from students of Indonesian colonial history.In particular there is Benda and Castles' article published in this journal in 1969 1 and the series of articles by The Siauw Giap. 2 Their work is based mainly on Dutch official reports written before 1930, and together it offers a fairly comprehensive view of the Samin movement.However, since it was…
Images of Malay-Indonesian Identity
Ethnicity in Borneo: An Anthropological Problem
What is Brunei Society? Reflections on a Conceptual and Ethnographic Issue
Introduction Although a general survey of the ethnographic literature on Brunei Darussalam is urgently needed so that we might satisfactorily assess what has been accomplished and what remains to be done, I do not propose to present an overview here. In the course of the discussion I shall indicate some of the strengths and weaknesses of the anthropology of Brunei, but, in the main, I shall be concerned with both a conceptual and an ethnographic …
Claiming Authority: Derek Freeman, His Legacy and Interpretations of the Iban of Borneo
The anthropological enterprise of translating other cultures is explored in the case of the Iban of Borneo. Derek Freeman’s demonstration of authority in his analyses of Iban religion and social organization, his establishment of a lineage of authority, and his development of an evolutionary biological-cultural interactionist paradigm is critically evaluated. Freeman’s legacy of authority, as expressed in Michael Heppell’s detailed interpretation…
Identity, material culture and tourism: Of ritual cloths and totem poles
In this study of the relationships between identity, material culture and tourism some of the different roles of the anthropologist in engaging with the wider field of cultural identity are examined. It commences with the approach of the conceptually-oriented anthropologist in addressing issues of culture, identity and ethnicity. Then it explores the role of the anthropologist in an applied mode with regard to the ritual cloths of the Iban of Sar…
Tourism and Culture in Malaysia
Southeast Asia: Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change
World Heritage Sites and Domestic Tourism in Thailand: Social Change and Management Implications
This study examines some of the tensions inherent in the mobilization of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for tourism in Thailand, set against the imperatives of conservation management. The authors look at two cultural sites (the Historic City of Ayutthaya and the Historic Town of Sukhothai) and one natural site (the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex). They focus particularly on domestic tourism emanating from the urban middle class in Thailand, …
Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down
Natural Man: A Record from Borneo
Compass for Fields Afar: Essays in Social Anthropology
Land Settlement Schemes and the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Sarawak, East Malaysia: A Critical Commentary
Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia
Besides the more obvious threats and impediments to human security posed by conflict or natural disaster, a central problem in examining and addressing multiple insecurities in Southeast Asia is at what level. Each country confronts a different context of human security and faces a host of intersecting circumstances that render situational day-to-day forms of precariousness difficult to recognise and interpret. How then are we to proceed? This ar…
Tourism and Monarchy in Southeast Asia
Some observations on the Samin movement of North-Central Java. Suggestions for the theoretical analysis of the dynamics of rural unrest
In recent years the Samin peasant movement of north-central Java has received a good deal of attention from students of Indonesian colonial history.In particular there is Benda and Castles' article published in this journal in 1969 1 and the series of articles by The Siauw Giap. 2 Their work is based mainly on Dutch official reports written before 1930, and together it offers a fairly comprehensive view of the Samin movement.However, since it was…
Migration, Warfare, and Culture Contact in Borneo: A Critique of Ecological Analysis
Some Aspects of Iban-Maloh Contact in West Kalimantan
The nineteenth century witnessed extensive Iban migrations from the upper Batang Lupar riverI in Sarawak's Second Division. The majority of Iban moved via the nearby Kapuas lakes and the Leboyan and Embaloh2 rivers of Dutch West Borneo (now West Kalimantan) and on to the Rejang basin the Third Division of Sarawak. However, much of the scholarly work which has been done on these important indigenous movements has focused on them in a Sarawak conte…
Cursing, special death and spirits in Embaloh society
To my knowledge very little work has been published on the subject of cursing in South-East Asian societies, although there are many scattered references to cursing in the African literature. 1 Since it is a relatively neglected subject in the South-East Asian world this article is an attempt to examine some of the verbal curses used in a Dayak society of Indonesian West Borneo (Kalimantan) and to try and relate these curses to other areas of Day…
Unity, formalism and structure: Comments on Iban augury and related problems. With a rejoinder by Peter Metcalf
This paper was, in part, stimulated by Peter Metcalf s recent article in Bijdragen on 'Birds and Deities in Borneo' in which he describes Berawan augural belief and practice and compares it with that of the Iban (1976:96-123).Metcalf has provided us with interesting and much needed data on a vitally important but as yet neglected area of Bornean belief, and I would not wish to question his exposition of Berawan augury as such.On the other hand hi…
Status, economic determinism and monocausality: More on the Samin
I read with great interest A. Pie ter E. Korver's article on 'The Samin Movement and Millenarism' (Bijdragen, 132 (1976), pp. 249-266) in which he is critical of my analysis of this movement.1 It is always tedious to have to defend one's own position and I am not prepared to do this at great length, but in the light of the continuing debate on the Samin perhaps I can clarify a few issues on which I have apparently been misunderstood
Revitalization movements’ in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)∗
Essays on Borneo Societies
The Rejang of South‐West Sumatra: Notes on social organization
Ethnicity in Borneo: An Anthropological Problem
Southeast Asia and the Concept of Ethnicity
Land Settlement Schemes and the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Sarawak, East Malaysia: A Critical Commentary
Southeast Asia: Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change
The Maloh of West Kalimantan. An Ethnographic Study of Social Inequality and Social Inequality and Social Change Among an Indonesian Borneo People
The Tillema collection in Leiden
Compass for Fields Afar: Essays in Social Anthropology
Models and Realities: Malaysian National Planning and East Malaysian Development Problems
In this paper my main empirical data are taken from the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, but much of what I say applies equally to the other East Malaysian state of Sabah. What is more, my argument is relevant in large part to the southern two-thirds of the island of Borneo-that is, to the four provinces of Indonesian Borneo or Kalimantan. For the purposes of this discussion I have to treat the small, newly independent oil-rich sultanate of Brune…
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
Natural Man: A Record from Borneo
Nomades et Sedentarisation a Borneo: Histoire Economique et Sociale
Central Borneo: Making Sense of ItCentral Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society.Jerome Rousseau
Western Europe and South-East Asia: Co-operation or competition
Journal Article Western Europe and South-East Asia: co-operation or competition? Get access Western Europe and South-East Asia: co-operation or competition?Edited by Giuseppe Schiavone. London: Macmillan. 1989. 276pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 333 46703 5. Victor T. King Victor T. King 1University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 607–608, https…
Margins and Minorities: The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia
A Journey Among the Peoples of Central Borneo in Word and Picture
Editor's introduction Hendrik Tillema's life and work Tillema's journey to the Apo Kayan (Kayan Plateau) Tillema after his Apo Kayan journey A bibliography of Tillema's main publications (with particular reference to Borneo) Editor's bibliography The book Part I The Apo Kayan in word and picture Chapter I To the Apo Kayan I make preparations for the journey I make a list of more than 250 queries about the journey, luggage, etc., etc. Small presen…
Tourism and Culture in Malaysia
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