Cultural History In Focus | “Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu: Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms” by Yancey Orr

 

Sultan Moh.Jamalul Kiram II of Sulu with an Islamic scholar and a court official.
G.R. Lambert & Co. (Photographer)
Sulu Archipelago 1894-1936
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 
 

Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu

Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms

 

by Yancey Orr

 

This article is generously provided by Yancey Orr.

 

Chest Armor of Portuguese Manufacture
Sulu Archipelago | 1750-1866
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Chainmail
Sulu Archipelago
Trapezoidal horn plates, connected and interspersed by brass rings.
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Executioner’s Sword
Sulu Archipelago | 1800s - 1920s
© The British Museum

Sword Hilt
Sulu | 1750’s - 1824
Raffles Collection
© The British Museum

Sword Hilt
Sulu | 1750’s - 1824
Raffles Collection
© The British Museum

Sword
Sulu | 18th - 19th Century
© The British Museum

Sword
Sulu | 19th Century
© The British Museum

Sword
Sulu Archipelago | Before 1922
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Sword and Decorated Sheath
Sulu Archipelago | Before 1889
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Sword with Handle in the Shape of a Bird's Head with Scabbard
Sulu Archipelago | Before 1875
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 
 

Yancey Orr

 
 
 
 
 

Yancey Orr is an environmental and cultural anthropologist who has worked in communities in Southeast Asia and North America. He has conducted fieldwork among the Tausug, Maguindanao, Sumbanese, Balinese, and Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. He has published on the relationship between agricultural systems and violence, the emergence of culturally specific perception, and the global connections of indigenous peoples. He has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation for his research and is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

 
 

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Author | © Yancey Orr
Source | Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol. 168, No. 2/3, pp. 253-273
Publisher | KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Year of Publication | 2012