Kirk Endicott
Center for Global Nonkilling [Panel Presentations, part 1]
Kirk Endicott delivered an engrossing paper that described the nature of Batek nonviolence, plus the conditions that foster it, at a panel session on Wednesday evening, November 16th, in Montreal. His presentation was part of the program “Challenging the Legacy of Innate Depravity: The New Tidemarks of the Nonkilling Paradigm,” held as part of the […]
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 […]
Summer Vacation Reading, Part 2: Articles on the Batek and the Ju/’hoansi
Two fine articles by noted scholars have been added to the Archive of Articles about Peaceful Societies this week, and both are worth taking on vacation to read along with some good books. Kirk Endicott’s piece “Property, Power, and Ideology among the Batek of Malaysia” describes how the concepts of property ownership among a forest-dwelling […]
Cultural Assimilation and Change among the Batek
Among the Batek, “man and woman are equals … there is no men’s or women’s work,” declared Kirk Endicott, an anthropologist who sees many advantages for that Malaysian Orang Asli society in retaining its traditional culture. Endicott and Robert Welsch, both professors from the anthropology department at Dartmouth, discussed the issues confronting indigenous societies that […]
Religious Basis for Malaysian Discrimination against Orang Asli [anthology chapter review]
“When all Orang Asli have become Malays, then Malays will become Orang Asli,” one Semai man explained, getting right to the heart of a major problem for his society. In a recent article, Kirk Endicott and Robert Knox Dentan review many facets of the continuing Malaysian commitment to assimilating the Orang Asli societies—the Semai, the […]
