Kirk Endicott | Department of Anthropology

Biography

Although I no longer teach or do fieldwork, I continue to read and write about hunter-gatherers and the indigenous minorities of Peninsular Malaysia (Orang Asli), often in collaboration with our former graduate students, Vivek Venkataraman and Thomas Kraft. Currently my main priority is to prepare my fieldnotes, photos, artifacts, and audio and video recordings of my research with the Batek hunter-gatherers for deposit in the Orang Asli Archive at the Mason Library at Keene State College, the only such archive in the United States. As a member of the archive Advisory Committee, I work with colleagues around the world to build the collection and organize webinars on Orang Asli topics.

Education

D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1976

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974

B.Litt. University of Oxford, 1969

Diploma. University of Oxford, 1966

B.A. Reed College, 1965

Publications

Endicott, Kirk. "Peaceful sociality: The causes of nonviolence among the Orang Asli of Malaysia." In Jon Henrik Ziegeler Remme and Kenneth Sillander, eds., Human Nature and Social Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 97-109. 2017.

Venkataram, Vivek V., Thomas Kraft, Nathaniel J. Dominy, and Kirk M. Endicott. "Hunter-gatherer residential mobility and the marginal value of rainforest patches." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 12, pp. 3097-3102. 2017.

Endicott, Kirk, ed., Malaysia's "Original People": Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli. Singapore National University Press, 2016.

Endicott, Kirk. "Introduction." In K. Endicott, ed., Malaysia's "Original People": Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli. National University of Singapore Press, Singapore, pp. 1-38. 2016.

Endicott, Kirk, Lye Tuck-Po, Nurul Fatanah Zahari, and Alice Rudge. "Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia's National Park." Hunter Gatherer Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 95-118. 2016.

Endicott, Karen and Kirk Endicott. "Batek childrearing and morality." In D. Narvaez, A. Fuentes, and P. Gray, eds., Ancestral Landscapes in Human Evolution: Culture, Childrearing and Social Wellbeing. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 108-25. 2014.

Endicott, Kirk. "Peaceful foragers: The significance of the Batek and Moriori for the question of innate human violence." In D. Fry, ed., War, Peace, and Human Nature. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 241-61. 2013.

Endicott, Kirk and Karen Endicott, The Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia, Malaysian edition. Subang Jaya, Malaysia: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 2012. Includes DVD "The Batek: Rainforest Foragers of Kelantan, Malaysia."

Endicott, Kirk. "Cooperative autonomy: Social solidarity among the Batek of Malaysia." In T. Gibson and K. Sillander, eds., Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia. Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven, CT, pp. 62-87. 2011.