Barbara J King
Biographic Data
| ID | 93902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara J King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara J |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9278-3812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being
The authors critique the NY Declaration on Animal Consciousness, which does not denounce continued captivity and invasive research in the pursuit of animal consciousness markers. They argue that such research often increases animal suffering by accepting harmful practices. Instead, they propose a nonanthropocentric, ethical framework aligned with the Belmont Report’s principle of beneficence, advocating for noninvasive methods in natural habitats…
Toward an Anti-Maleficent Research Agenda
Important advances in biomedical and behavioral research ethics have occurred over the past few decades, many of them centered on identifying and eliminating significant harms to human subjects of research. Comprehensive attention has not been paid to the totality of harms experienced by animal subjects, although scientific and moral progress require explicit appraisal of these harms. Science is a public good and the prioritizing within, conduct …
Shaking it up
Factors associated with farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors in a privatized agricultural extension system
The privatization of agricultural advisory and extension services in many countries and the associated pluralism of service providers has renewed interest in farmers’ use of fee-for-service advisors. Understanding farmers’ use of advisory services is important, given the role such services are expected to play in helping farmers address critical environmental and sustainability challenges. This paper aims to identify factors associated with farme…
A typology of community forestry approaches in Indonesia
Community-based management is an increasingly important form of governance and control of forests and other natural resources. In Indonesia, government policy aims to expand the role of communities in controlling and managing forests. Since the 1970s, many different forms of community forestry (CF) have been implemented in Indonesia but there has been little systematic analysis of these different approaches. This paper presents a typology of CF i…
Anthropology Beyond Culture
The evolution of community forestry through the growth of interlinked community institutions in Java, Indonesia
The Process of Becoming a Sexual Black Woman
Interventions at multiple levels of the social ecology throughout the life course may help reduce STD/HIV risk among black women in the United States. Future research should include examination of the experiences of black females younger than 18 and evaluation of the protective strategies employed by older black females
Navigating shades of social capital and trust to leverage opportunities for rural innovation
How Animals Grieve
Transition Landscapes and Social Networks
Beilin, R., N. T. Reichelt, B. J. King, A. Long, and S. Cam. 2013. Transition landscapes and social networks: examining on-ground community resilience and its implications for policy settings in multiscalar systems. Ecology and Society 18(2): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05360-180230
Apes, Hominids, and the Roots of Religion
Towards an ethnography of African great apes1
How Gorillas and Chimpanzees Can Help Our Children
Towards an ethnography of African great apes
How can biological and social anthropologists today relate to each other's work? Using my research in biological anthropology as an example, I show that the African great apes sometimes engage in meaning-making as they act together. That is, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos communicate, especially through gesture, in contingent and creative ways, going beyond a mere exchange of signals to achieve co-construction of meaning. I argue that when bio…
How can we know the dancer from the dance
We argue that dynamic-systems theory (DST) offers researchers a promising alternative to the information-processing framework that has dominated the study of primate social communication. DST rejects a linear view of communication in which a sender transmits a signal to a receiver, who then decodes that signal for its information content. Instead, dynamic-systems theory envisions communication as an intrinsically creative process that unfolds as …
A well‐articulated volume
Review of Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society edited by Shirley C. Strum and Linda Marie Fedigan. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2000, xv + 635 pp, 7 fig., $35
Debating Culture The Ape and the Sushi Master
Syntax and language origins
Introduction to primate behavior
Juvenile Primates
Sex and gender hierarchies
Writing across the Biology‐Culture Gap
Book reviewed in this article: Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture . Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 322 pp. The Use of Tools by Human and Non‐Human Primates . Arlette Berthelet and Jean Chavaillon , eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 424 pp
Evolutionism, essentialism, and an evolutionary perspective on language
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]
Was There No Place Like Home
How Animals Grieve
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropology Beyond Culture
The Process of Becoming a Sexual Black Woman
Interventions at multiple levels of the social ecology throughout the life course may help reduce STD/HIV risk among black women in the United States. Future research should include examination of the experiences of black females younger than 18 and evaluation of the protective strategies employed by older black females
Navigating shades of social capital and trust to leverage opportunities for rural innovation
Social information transfer in monkeys, apes, and hominids
Information is a key resource for all animals because it permits choices to be made through learning. For the scientist, identifying social learning in noncaptive populations can be difficult. A focus on social information transfer, the criteria for which are more reliably measured in the field, may be preferable. A comparison of social information transfer in nonhuman primates and hominids reveals similarities and differences in two major realms…
How can we know the dancer from the dance
We argue that dynamic-systems theory (DST) offers researchers a promising alternative to the information-processing framework that has dominated the study of primate social communication. DST rejects a linear view of communication in which a sender transmits a signal to a receiver, who then decodes that signal for its information content. Instead, dynamic-systems theory envisions communication as an intrinsically creative process that unfolds as …
Extractive foraging and the evolution of primate intelligence
Transition Landscapes and Social Networks
Beilin, R., N. T. Reichelt, B. J. King, A. Long, and S. Cam. 2013. Transition landscapes and social networks: examining on-ground community resilience and its implications for policy settings in multiscalar systems. Ecology and Society 18(2): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05360-180230
Towards an ethnography of African great apes
How can biological and social anthropologists today relate to each other's work? Using my research in biological anthropology as an example, I show that the African great apes sometimes engage in meaning-making as they act together. That is, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos communicate, especially through gesture, in contingent and creative ways, going beyond a mere exchange of signals to achieve co-construction of meaning. I argue that when bio…
On Territoriality in Hunter-Gatherers
Shaking it up
The evolution of community forestry through the growth of interlinked community institutions in Java, Indonesia
Debating Culture The Ape and the Sushi Master
Syntax and language origins
Evolutionism, essentialism, and an evolutionary perspective on language
On Territoriality in Hunter-Gatherers
The effect of female proximity and social interaction on the menstrual cycle of crab-eating monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)
Extractive foraging and the evolution of primate intelligence
Chimpanzees, Science, and Ethics
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Social information transfer in monkeys, apes, and hominids
Information is a key resource for all animals because it permits choices to be made through learning. For the scientist, identifying social learning in noncaptive populations can be difficult. A focus on social information transfer, the criteria for which are more reliably measured in the field, may be preferable. A comparison of social information transfer in nonhuman primates and hominids reveals similarities and differences in two major realms…
How Monkeys See the World
The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]
Was There No Place Like Home
Inclusive fitness and varying foraging demand
Dunbar, R. I. M. Primate Social Systems. Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing, 1988. vii + 373 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. No price. Fa, John E., and Charles H. Southwick, (Eds.). Ecology and Behavior of Food‐Enhanced Primate Groups. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1988. xix 4‐ 355 pp. including foreword, chapter references and index. $59.50, cloth
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
On primatology and ethics
Sex and gender hierarchies
Writing across the Biology‐Culture Gap
Book reviewed in this article: Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture . Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 322 pp. The Use of Tools by Human and Non‐Human Primates . Arlette Berthelet and Jean Chavaillon , eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 424 pp
Evolutionism, essentialism, and an evolutionary perspective on language
Introduction to primate behavior
Juvenile Primates
Syntax and language origins
Debating Culture The Ape and the Sushi Master
A well‐articulated volume
Review of Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society edited by Shirley C. Strum and Linda Marie Fedigan. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2000, xv + 635 pp, 7 fig., $35
How can we know the dancer from the dance
We argue that dynamic-systems theory (DST) offers researchers a promising alternative to the information-processing framework that has dominated the study of primate social communication. DST rejects a linear view of communication in which a sender transmits a signal to a receiver, who then decodes that signal for its information content. Instead, dynamic-systems theory envisions communication as an intrinsically creative process that unfolds as …
Towards an ethnography of African great apes
How can biological and social anthropologists today relate to each other's work? Using my research in biological anthropology as an example, I show that the African great apes sometimes engage in meaning-making as they act together. That is, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos communicate, especially through gesture, in contingent and creative ways, going beyond a mere exchange of signals to achieve co-construction of meaning. I argue that when bio…
How Gorillas and Chimpanzees Can Help Our Children
Towards an ethnography of African great apes1
Apes, Hominids, and the Roots of Religion
How Animals Grieve
Sociology (23 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Biology (12 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · History (8 works)