Karen Endicott
Media Focus on the Batek and the Endicotts
For the past few weeks, Dartmouth College has been publicizing the Batek people of Peninsular Malaysia and the faculty couple, Kirk and Karen Endicott, who have done extensive research about them. The Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs issued a press release to announce a new book by the Endicotts, The Headman Was a Woman: […]
Gender Equality Among the Batek [book review]
Kirk M. Endicott and Karen L. Endicott have just published an exciting new book on the egalitarian gender relationships among the Batek. As an added bonus, they have included a 37 minute DVD by Kirk showing life in a Batek band in 1990. The authors define gender equal societies as ones where neither sex controls […]
Batek Practice Gender Equality
Some anthropologists argue that men dominate all human societies, but Karen Lampell Endicott describes gender equality among the Batek and some other nomadic hunter/gather societies in an article she wrote in 1981. It has been scanned and added as a PDF to the Archive of this website this week. One anthropologist maintained that sexual asymmetry […]
