Robert Barnes Publications

Books

2005

Robert Barnes
Two Crows denies it: a history of controversy in Omaha sociology, 2005, University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, Nebraska.

1996

Robert Barnes
Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera., 1996, Clarendon Press: Oxford.

1984

Robert Barnes
Two Crows denies it: a history of controversy in Omaha sociology, 1984, University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, Nebraska.

1975

Robert Barnes
Josef Kohler, On the prehistory of marriage, totemism, group marriage, mother right, 1975, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.

1974

Robert Barnes
Kédang: a study of the collective thought of an eastern Indonesian people, 1974, The Clarendon Press: Oxford.

Edited books

1995

Robert Barnes
Indigenous Peoples of Asia, 1995, Association for Asian Studies: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1985

Robert Barnes
Contexts and levels: anthropological essays on hierarchy, 1985, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Oxford.

Contribution to book

2010

Robert Barnes
‘On Sense and Reference in Eastern Indonesian Personal Names: Finding Space for a Sociology of Naming’, In Zheng Yangwen and Charles J.-H. Macdonald (eds) Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2010, pp. 224-244.

2005

Robert Barnes
‘Indigenous Use and Management of Whales and Other Marine Resources in East Flores and Lembata, Indonesia’, In Nobuhiro Kishigami and James M. Savelle Senri Ethnological Studies, National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka, 2005.
Robert Barnes
‘Forward’ Journey to Paradise, Paula Zina, AuthorHouse: Bloomington, 2005.

2002

Robert Barnes
‘Yami Boats and Boat Building in a Wider Perspective’, In David Parkin and Ruth Barnes Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology in the Indian Ocean, Routledge Curzon: London, 2002.

2001

Robert Barnes
‘Review of Juliette Koning,, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg and Ratna Saptari, eds., Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices.’ Journal of Islamic Studies., 2001.
Robert Barnes
‘Yami Boats and Boat Building in a Wider Perspective’, In David Faure Search of the Hunters and Their Tribes: Studies in the History and Culture of the Taiwan Indigenous People, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines Monograph, Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines: Taipei, 2001.
Robert Barnes
‘Structuralism’, In N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,, Pergamon: Oxford, 2001, pp. 15222-15225.

2000

Robert Barnes
‘Trying to Get There: Approaches to Indonesia.’, In Wendy James Paul Dresch and David Parkin Anthropologists in a Wider World, Methodology and History in Anthropology, Berghahn: New York, 2000.

1998

Robert Barnes and Thomas R. Trautmann and R. H. Barnes
‘“Dravidian”, “Iroquois” and “Crow-Omaha” in North American Perspective.’, In Thomas R. Trautmann Maurice Godelier and Franklin E. Tjon Sie Fat Transformations of Kinship,, Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C., 1998.
Robert Barnes
‘Alliance, Exchange, and the Organization of Boat Corporations in Lamalera (E. Indonesia).’, In Thomas Schweizer and Douglas R. White Kinship, Networks, and Exchange, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1998, pp. 90-107.

1997

Robert Barnes
‘Time’, In Thomas J. Barfield The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, Blackwell Publishers: Oxford and Malden, MA, 1997.

1996

Robert Barnes
‘Occasions of Sacrifice: Attenuated Forms in a Christian Village in Indonesia’, In Signe Howell For the Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia, Occasional Publications, Research School CNWS: Leiden, 1996.

1995

Robert Barnes
‘Time and the Sense of History in an Indonesian Community: Oral Tradition in a Recently Literate Culture. In Time: Histories and Ethnologies’, In Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1995.

1994

Robert Barnes
‘Lamalera, A Subsistence Whaling Village in Eastern Indonesia’ Wildlife and Local Culture: Background Papers. (The Fourth International Whaling Symposium), Institute of Cetacean Research: Tokyo, 1994.

1993

Robert Barnes
‘Lamaholot’, In Paul Hockings Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume V: East and Southeast Asia, G. K. Hall and Co: Boston, 1993.
Robert Barnes
‘Kédang’, In Paul Hockings Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume V: East and Southeast Asia, G. K. Hall and Co: Boston, 1993.
Robert Barnes
‘Salt Production in and near the East Flores Regency, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia.’, In Pierre Le Roux and Jacques Ivanoff Le Sel de la Vie en Asie du Sud-Est, White Lotus: Bangkok, Thailand, 1993.

1992

Robert Barnes
‘Preface. In Détente in Asia?, (ed.) Leslie Palmier.’ St. Antony's/Macmillan Series, 1992.

1990

Robert Barnes
‘A Legacy of Misperception and Invention: the Omaha Indians in Anthropology.’, In James A. Clifton The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies, Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.), 1990.

1988

Robert Barnes
‘Moving and staying space in the Malay Archipelago. In Time Past, Time Present, Time Future: Perspectives on Indonesian Culture, Essays in Honour of P. E. de Josselin de Jong’, In Henri J. M. Claessen and David S. Moyers Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Institut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Foris Publications: Dordrecht-Holland/ Providence-U.S.A., 1988, pp. 131.

1987

Robert Barnes
‘Anthropological comparison.’, In Ladislav Holy Comparative Anthropology, Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1987.

1984

Robert Barnes
‘Kédang’, In Richard V. Weekes Muslim Peoples: a World Ethnographic Survey, second edition, revised and expanded. 2 vols., Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, 1984.
Robert Barnes
‘Lamaholot’, In Richard V. Weekes Muslim Peoples: a World Ethnographic Survey, second edition, revised and expanded. 2 vols., Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, 1984.

1980

Robert Barnes
‘Concordance, structure and variation: considerations of alliance in Kédang.’, In James J. Fox The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1980.
Robert Barnes
‘Marriage, exchange and the meaning of corporations in eastern Indonesia.’, In J. L. Comaroff The Meaning of Marriage Payments, Academic Press: London, 1980.
Robert Barnes
‘Cetaceans and cetacean hunting: Lamalera, Indonesia.’ Report on World Wildlife Fund Project 1428. Typescript, 1980, pp. 82 pp..

1972

Robert Barnes
‘Solorese’, In Frank M. LeBar Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, Human Relations Area Files Press: New Haven, 1972.
Robert Barnes
‘Ngada’, In Frank M. LeBar Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, Human Relations Area Files Press: New Haven, 1972.

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