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 6047 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-646-1275
Fax: 603-646-1140
kirk.m.endicott@dartmouth.edu
I continue to be fascinated by hunting and gathering peoples. I am currently
studying how some, but not all, hunting and gathering societies maintain
egalitarian social relations, in some cases even between the sexes. My wife
Karen and I have recently finished a book focusing on gender roles and
relations among the Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia, a people we have
studied intermittently since 1971 (see below). The Batek appear to be one of
the most gender egalitarian societies in the world. I also maintain both my
scholarly and humanitarian interest in questions concerning the human rights of
indigenous peoples who are disrupted by economic development and nation
building. In August 2001 and 2004 I was able to briefly visit Orang Asli
(Malaysian Aboriginal) and Iban settlements that have been displaced by logging
and dam, road, and airport construction. I continue to work with the Center for
Orang Asli Concerns in Malaysia on matters concerning the welfare of Orang Asli
. A few years ago my colleague Rob Welsch and I edited a reader on
controversies in anthropology, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial
Issues in Anthropology (Dushkin/McGraw-Hill). This was an interesting departure
from my usual academic work. We have now completed a fourth edition of this
reader and a second edition of a companion volume on cultural anthropology
alone, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cultural
Anthropology. We have enjoyed working with a series of outstanding Dartmouth
undergraduates who have served as research assistants on this project.
Selected Recent Publications
- Endicott, K. 2003. Indigenous Rights Issues in Malaysia.
In: Dean, B. and J. M. Levy (eds.), At Risk of Being Heard:
Identity, Indigenous Rights and Post-Colonial States. University of
Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
- Endicott, K. and R. K. Dentan, 2004. Into the Mainstream or Into the
Backwater? Malaysian Assimilation of Orang Asli. In: C.
Duncan (ed.), Civilizing the Margins: Southeast Asian Government
Programs for the Development of Minorities. Cornell University
Press, Ithaca.
- Endicott, K. and R. Welsch (eds.). 2004. Taking Sides:
Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology, 3rd ed.
McGraw Hill/ Dushkin, Dubuque, Iowa.
- Welsch, R. and K. Endicott (eds.) 2005. Taking
Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cultural Anthropology,
2nd ed. McGraw Hill/Dushkin, dubuque, Iowa.
- Endicott, K. 2005. The Significance of Trade in an
Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case. In: T. Widlock and
T. Wolde (eds.), Property and Equality. Vol. 2.
Encapsulation, Commercialization, Discrimination. Berghahn Books,
Oxford.
- Endicott, K.M. and K.L. Endicott. 2008. The Headman Was a Woman: The
Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia. Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL.
- Endicott, K. and R. Welsch (eds.). 2008. Taking Sides: Clashing Views
in Anthropology, 4th ed. McGraw Hill/ Dushkin, Dubuque, Iowa.
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