Kirk Endicott
Biographic Data
| ID | 629228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Endicott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Endicott |
| SIGNATURE | ENDICOTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rudge, Alice: Sensing Others. Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Orang Asli Land and Resource Rights in the Malay States, 1874–1939
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 93, Part 2, No. 317, December 2020
Preserving quantifiable ethnographic records of disappearing human lifeways
The human evolutionary sciences place high value on quantitative data from traditional small‐scale societies that are rapidly modernizing. These data often stem from the sustained ethnographic work of anthropologists who are today nearing the end of their careers. Yet many quantitative ethnographic data are preserved only in summary formats that do not reflect the rich and variable ethnographic reality often described in unpublished field notes, …
Foraging Performance, Prosociality, and Kin Presence Do Not Predict Lifetime Reproductive Success in Batek Hunter-Gatherers
Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli
Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia's national park
The Batek are a foraging-trading people living in and around Peninsular malaysia’s largest national park, taman Negara. In recent years some of their semi-permanent camps near the park headquarters at Kuala tahan have become tourist attractions. Batek residents allow groups of malaysian and foreign tourists to visit, and they demonstrate some of their specialised skills, including shooting blowpipes and making fire with rattan vines and dry wood,…
Myths about hunter-gatherers redux: Nomadic forager war and peace
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critique several studies that claim to show that nomadic foragers engage in high levels of inter-group aggression. This is done through exploring four myths: nomadic foragers are warlike; there was a high rate of war mortality in the Pleistocene; the nomadic forager data support the “chimpanzee model” of lethal raiding psychology; and contact and state influence inevitably decrease aggression in nomadic f…
Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list: Steven Pinker and the “Bellicose School's” treatment of forager violence
Purpose – The question of violence in hunter-gatherer society has animated philosophical debates since at least the seventeenth century. Steven Pinker has sought to affirm that civilization, is superior to the state of humanity during its long history of hunting and gathering. The purpose of this paper is to draw upon a series of recent studies that assert a baseline of primordial violence by hunters and gatherers. In challenging this position th…
War, peace and Northwest Coast complex hunter-gatherers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to question the assumptions behind the aggressive competitive image of Northwest Coast (NWC) forager societies, given that their most reflective descendants emphasize sharing and paying back as constant peacemaking actions through history. Also to seek data that help ascertain whether this contemporary view might predate today's sensibilities colored by life as post-foragers encapsulated in nation states. De…
Violence, fear and anti-violence: The Batek of Peninsular Malaysia
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze socio-cultural and political forces which have shaped anti-violent attitudes and strategies of the Batek and Batek Tanum of Peninsular Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection during the authors’ long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the Batek and Batek Tanum in Peninsular Malaysia. Methodology included participant observation, semi-structured interviews a…
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
Social Anthropology and Human Origins byAlan Barnard
The Agta people: A photographic depiction
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society: A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply]
The possibility of independent foraging in the rain forest of Peninsular Malaysia
Cultural/Ethnology: Forest Traders: A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram
Batek Negrito Religion
The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia: A Problem of Alternatives
1979). The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 7-22
Jaarverslag 1971
An Analysis of Malay Magic
Traditional Malay beliefs and practices - the folk-religion of the Malays divorced from its Islamic overlay - has held a fascination for Europeans and generated a body of literature to which Annandale, Skeat and Winstedt number amongst the distinguished contributors. In this study the author attempts to identify some order and coherence out of the vast labyrinth of concepts, superstitions and observances which form the skein of Malay magic, and t…
Denial of affect and conformity
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society: A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply]
Myths about hunter-gatherers redux: Nomadic forager war and peace
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critique several studies that claim to show that nomadic foragers engage in high levels of inter-group aggression. This is done through exploring four myths: nomadic foragers are warlike; there was a high rate of war mortality in the Pleistocene; the nomadic forager data support the “chimpanzee model” of lethal raiding psychology; and contact and state influence inevitably decrease aggression in nomadic f…
The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia: A Problem of Alternatives
1979). The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 7-22
Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list: Steven Pinker and the “Bellicose School's” treatment of forager violence
Purpose – The question of violence in hunter-gatherer society has animated philosophical debates since at least the seventeenth century. Steven Pinker has sought to affirm that civilization, is superior to the state of humanity during its long history of hunting and gathering. The purpose of this paper is to draw upon a series of recent studies that assert a baseline of primordial violence by hunters and gatherers. In challenging this position th…
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia's national park
The Batek are a foraging-trading people living in and around Peninsular malaysia’s largest national park, taman Negara. In recent years some of their semi-permanent camps near the park headquarters at Kuala tahan have become tourist attractions. Batek residents allow groups of malaysian and foreign tourists to visit, and they demonstrate some of their specialised skills, including shooting blowpipes and making fire with rattan vines and dry wood,…
War, peace and Northwest Coast complex hunter-gatherers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to question the assumptions behind the aggressive competitive image of Northwest Coast (NWC) forager societies, given that their most reflective descendants emphasize sharing and paying back as constant peacemaking actions through history. Also to seek data that help ascertain whether this contemporary view might predate today's sensibilities colored by life as post-foragers encapsulated in nation states. De…
Violence, fear and anti-violence: The Batek of Peninsular Malaysia
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze socio-cultural and political forces which have shaped anti-violent attitudes and strategies of the Batek and Batek Tanum of Peninsular Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection during the authors’ long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the Batek and Batek Tanum in Peninsular Malaysia. Methodology included participant observation, semi-structured interviews a…
Foraging Performance, Prosociality, and Kin Presence Do Not Predict Lifetime Reproductive Success in Batek Hunter-Gatherers
Denial of affect and conformity
An Analysis of Malay Magic
Traditional Malay beliefs and practices - the folk-religion of the Malays divorced from its Islamic overlay - has held a fascination for Europeans and generated a body of literature to which Annandale, Skeat and Winstedt number amongst the distinguished contributors. In this study the author attempts to identify some order and coherence out of the vast labyrinth of concepts, superstitions and observances which form the skein of Malay magic, and t…
Jaarverslag 1971
The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia: A Problem of Alternatives
1979). The hunting methods of the batek negritos of malaysia. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 7-22
Batek Negrito Religion
Cultural/Ethnology: Forest Traders: A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram
The possibility of independent foraging in the rain forest of Peninsular Malaysia
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society: A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply]
The Agta people: A photographic depiction
Social Anthropology and Human Origins byAlan Barnard
Myths about hunter-gatherers redux: Nomadic forager war and peace
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critique several studies that claim to show that nomadic foragers engage in high levels of inter-group aggression. This is done through exploring four myths: nomadic foragers are warlike; there was a high rate of war mortality in the Pleistocene; the nomadic forager data support the “chimpanzee model” of lethal raiding psychology; and contact and state influence inevitably decrease aggression in nomadic f…
Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list: Steven Pinker and the “Bellicose School's” treatment of forager violence
Purpose – The question of violence in hunter-gatherer society has animated philosophical debates since at least the seventeenth century. Steven Pinker has sought to affirm that civilization, is superior to the state of humanity during its long history of hunting and gathering. The purpose of this paper is to draw upon a series of recent studies that assert a baseline of primordial violence by hunters and gatherers. In challenging this position th…
War, peace and Northwest Coast complex hunter-gatherers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to question the assumptions behind the aggressive competitive image of Northwest Coast (NWC) forager societies, given that their most reflective descendants emphasize sharing and paying back as constant peacemaking actions through history. Also to seek data that help ascertain whether this contemporary view might predate today's sensibilities colored by life as post-foragers encapsulated in nation states. De…
Violence, fear and anti-violence: The Batek of Peninsular Malaysia
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze socio-cultural and political forces which have shaped anti-violent attitudes and strategies of the Batek and Batek Tanum of Peninsular Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection during the authors’ long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the Batek and Batek Tanum in Peninsular Malaysia. Methodology included participant observation, semi-structured interviews a…
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia's national park
The Batek are a foraging-trading people living in and around Peninsular malaysia’s largest national park, taman Negara. In recent years some of their semi-permanent camps near the park headquarters at Kuala tahan have become tourist attractions. Batek residents allow groups of malaysian and foreign tourists to visit, and they demonstrate some of their specialised skills, including shooting blowpipes and making fire with rattan vines and dry wood,…
Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli
Foraging Performance, Prosociality, and Kin Presence Do Not Predict Lifetime Reproductive Success in Batek Hunter-Gatherers
Orang Asli Land and Resource Rights in the Malay States, 1874–1939
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 93, Part 2, No. 317, December 2020
Preserving quantifiable ethnographic records of disappearing human lifeways
The human evolutionary sciences place high value on quantitative data from traditional small‐scale societies that are rapidly modernizing. These data often stem from the sustained ethnographic work of anthropologists who are today nearing the end of their careers. Yet many quantitative ethnographic data are preserved only in summary formats that do not reflect the rich and variable ethnographic reality often described in unpublished field notes, …
Rudge, Alice: Sensing Others. Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Asian Studies and History (5 works)