Books and Collections

Feinberg, Richard and Richard Scaglion (eds.) Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, 2012.

Plotnicov, Leonard and Richard Scaglion (eds.) The Globalization of Food. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, 2002. ISBN 1-57766-257-1. (A revised edition of Consequences of Cultivar Diffusion)

Plotnicov, Leonard and Richard Scaglion (eds.) Consequences of Cultivar Diffusion. Ethnology Monographs No. 17, Pittsburgh, 1999. ISBN 0-945428-11-1.

Robinson, Cyril D. and Richard Scaglion with J. Michael Olivero. Police in Contradiction: The Evolution of the Police Function in Society. Greenwood, New Haven, Contributions in Criminology and Penology, No. 44, 1994. ISSN 0732-4464.

Scaglion, Richard (ed.) Customary Law and Legal Development in Papua New Guinea. Special Issue of The Journal of Anthropology: Volume 6 Nos. 1 and 2, 1987.

Scaglion, Richard (ed.) Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, Monograph No. 2, PNG Government Printer, Port Moresby, 1983. ISBN 0-07247-0746-8.

Scaglion, Richard (ed.) Homicide Compensation in Papua New Guinea: Problems and Prospects. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, Monograph No. 1, Office of Information, Port Moresby, 1981. ISBN 0-07247-0730-1.

Articles

Scaglion, Richard. “Multiple Voices, Multiple Truths: Labour Recruitment in the Sepik Foothills of German New Guinea.” The Journal of Pacific History 42(3):345-360, 2007.

Scaglion, Richard and María Auxiliadora Cordero. “Camote Ecuatoriano en Polinesia: Posible Evidencia de su Difusión en Tiempos Prehistóricos.” Revista de la Casa de la Cultura, Núcleo del Azuay 19:78-114, 2007.

Scaglion, Richard. "From Anthropologist to Government Officer and Back Again." Social Analysis 45:41-54, 2001.

Scaglion, Richard. "Then and Now: Directions in Melanesian Research." Reviews in Anthropology 30:159-169, 2001.

Scaglion, Richard. "Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward.” Ethnohistory 47:227-270. Afterword for Special Issue: Millennial Countdown in New Guinea. P.J. Stewart and A.J. Strathern, eds., 2000.

Scaglion, Richard. "Yam Cycles and Timeless Time in Melanesia." Ethnology 38:211-225, 1999.

Scaglion, Richard. "Chiefly Models in Papua New Guinea." The Contemporary Pacific 8:1-31, 1996.

Huber, Brad R. and Richard Scaglion. "Gender Differences in Computer Education: A Costa Rican Case Study." Journal of Educational Computing Research 13:271-304, 1995.

Watters, David R. and Richard Scaglion. "Beads and Pendants from Trants, Montserrat: Implications for the Prehistoric Lapidary Industry of the Caribbean." Annals of the Carnegie Museum 63:215-237, 1994.

George, Richard L. and Richard Scaglion. "Seriation Changes in Monongahela Triangular Lithic Projectiles." Man in the Northeast 44:73-81, 1992.

Scaglion, Richard. "Entropy and Convergence in Melanesian Studies." Reviews in Anthropology 21:245-253, 1992.

Scaglion, Richard. "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Woman? Family Violence in Abelam Society." Pacific Studies 13:189-204, 1990.

Scaglion, Richard. "Legal Adaptation in a Papua New Guinea Village Court." Ethnology 29:17-33, 1990.

Robinson, Cyril D. and Richard Scaglion. "The Origin and Evolution of the Police Function in Society." Law & Society Review 21:109-153, 1987.

Scaglion, Richard. "The Importance of Nighttime Observations in Time Allocation Studies." American Ethnologist 13:537-545, 1986.

Scaglion, Richard. "The 'Coming' of Independence in Papua New Guinea: An Abelam View." Journal of the Polynesian Society 92:463-486, 1983.

Scaglion, Richard. "The Effects of Mediation Styles on Successful Dispute Resolution: The Abelam Case." Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 3:256-269, 1983.

Condon, R. G. and Richard Scaglion. "The Ecology of Human Birth Seasonality." Human Ecology 10:495-511, 1982.

Saffirio, Giovanni and Richard Scaglion. "Hunting Efficiency in Acculturated and Unacculturated Yanomama Villages." Journal of Anthropological Research 38:315-327, 1982.

Frechione, John and Richard Scaglion. "Intensity of Cultivation and Kin Group Discreteness among Tropical Shifting Cultivators." Behavior Science Research 16:27-50, 1981.

Scaglion, Richard. "Samukundi Abelam Conflict Management: Implications for Legal Planning in Papua New Guinea." Oceania 52:28-38, 1981.

Scaglion, Richard and Richard G. Condon. "The Structure of Black and White Attitudes Towards Police." Human Organization 39:280-283, 1980.

Scaglion, Richard and Richard G. Condon. "Determinants of Attitudes Toward City Police." Criminology 11:485-494, 1980.

Scaglion, Richard. "Formal and Informal Operations of a Village Court in Maprik." Melanesian Law Journal 7:116-129, 1979.

Scaglion, Richard and Richard G. Condon. "Abelam Yam Beliefs and Sociorhythmicity: A Study in Chronoanthropology." Journal of Biosocial Science 11:17-25, 1979.

Scaglion, Richard. "Seasonal Births in a Western Abelam Village, Papua New Guinea." Human Biology 50:313-323, 1978.

Fonseca, Oscar M. and Richard Scaglion. "Stylistic Analysis of Stone Pendants from Las Huacas Burial Ground, Northwestern Costa Rica." Annals of the Carnegie Museum 47:281-298, 1978.

Scaglion, Richard. "On Australopithecine Sexual Dimorphism." Current Anthropology 19:153-154, 1978.

Scaglion, Richard. "A Critique of Aufenanger's the Passing Scene in North-East New Guinea (A Documentation)." American Anthropologist 79:134-135, 1977.

Liberty, Margot, Richard Scaglion, and David V. Hughey. "Rural and Urban Seminole Indian Fertility." Human Biology 48:741-755, 1976.

Liberty, Margot, David V. Hughey and Richard Scaglion. "Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility." Human Biology 48:59-71, 1976.

White, Douglas R., G.P. Murdock and Richard Scaglion. "Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered." Ethnology 10:369-388, 1971.

Chapters in Books and Collections

Scaglion, Richard. "Law." In The Pacific Islands: Environment & Society (second edition). M. Rapaport (ed.), University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu (in press).

Feinberg, Richard and Richard Scaglion. “Introduction: The Polynesian Outliers.” In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds.), Ethnology Monographs No. 21, 2012.

Scaglion, Richard. “Socio-Political Organization.” In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds.), Ethnology Monographs No. 21, 2012.

Scaglion, Richard and María-Auxiliadora Cordero. “Did Ancient Polynesians Reach the New World? Evaluating Evidence from the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil.” In Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World. T. Jones, A. A. Storey, E. A. Matisoo-Smith, and J. M. Ramírez-Aliaga (eds.), pp 171-193. Altamira Press, Landham, MD , 2011.

Jones, T. L., A. C. Clarke, M.-A. Cordero, R. C. Green, G. Irwin, K. A. Klar, E. A. Matisoo-Smith, D. Quiróz, J. M. Ramírez-Aliaga, R. Scaglion, A. A. Storey, and M. I. Weisler. “Summary and Conclusions.” In Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World. T. Jones, A. A. Storey, E. A. Matisoo-Smith, and J. M. Ramírez-Aliaga (eds.), pp. 263-276. Altamira Press, Landham, MD, 2011.

Scaglion, Richard. “Legal Pluralism in Pacific Island Societies.” In Sea of Islands: Anthropological Studies of Oceania. Y.-c. Tung (ed.), pp. 314-342. The Commercial Press, Taipei, 2009.

Scaglion, Richard. “Maori Warfare: Prefiguring Contemporary Directions in Ecological Science.” In Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. B. Walters, B. J. McCay, P. West and S. Lees (eds.), pp. 27-39. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD, 2008.

Scaglion, Richard. "Abelam: Giant Yams and Cycles of Sex, Warfare and Ritual." In Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work- Cultural Anthropology. C.R. Ember and M. Ember (eds.), pp. 21-31. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007.

Scaglion, Richard. “Kumara in the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil?” In The Sweet Potato in Oceania: a Reappraisal. C. Ballard, P. Brown, R.M. Bourke and T. Harwood (eds.), pp. 35-41. Ethnology Monographs 19 and Oceania Monograph 56, Pittsburgh and Sydney, 2005.

Scaglion, Richard. “From Anthropologist to Government Officer and Back Again.” In Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates. P. J. Stewart and A. Strathern (eds.), pp. 46-62. Berghahan Press, Oxford, 2005. (reprinted from Social Analysis).

Scaglion, Richard. “Legal Pluralism in Pacific Island Societies” In Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. V. Lockwood (ed.), pp. 86-101. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004.

Scaglion, Richard and Todd R. Hooe. "Tuber Transformations: The Impact of the Sweet Potato in the Indo-Pacific." In The Globalization of Food, L. Plotnicov and R. Scaglion, (eds.), pp. 105-118, Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, 2002.

Scaglion, Richard. "Analyzing Your Quantitative Information." In Doing Your Own Research (second edition) by E. Kane and M. O’Reilly-De Brún, Chapter 17 (pp. 311-336). Marion Boyars, London, 2001.

Scaglion, Richard. "Juxtaposed Narratives: A New Guinea Big Man Encounters the Colonial Process." In In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. N. McPherson (ed.), pp. 151-170. ASAO Monograph Series No. 19, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2001.

Scaglion, Richard. “Ethnocentrism and the Abelam.” In Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work. P. DeVita (ed.), pp. 113-118. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, 2000.

Scaglion, Richard and Marie Norman. "Where Resistance Falls Short: Rethinking Agency through Biography.” In Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. P. J. Stewart and A. Strathern (eds.), pp. 121-138. ASAO Monograph Series No. 18, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2000.

Scaglion, Richard. "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Woman? Family Violence in Abelam Society." In To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating. D. A. Counts, J. K. Brown, and J. C. Campbell (eds.), 2nd edition, pp. 137-152. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1999.

Scaglion, Richard. "Law and Society." In Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science, Volume 1. C.R. Ember and M. Ember (eds.), pp. 319-334. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1997.

Robinson, Cyril D. and Richard Scaglion. "The Origin and Evolution of the Police Function in Society." In Policing, Vol. 1. R. Reiner (ed.), pp. 3-48. Dartmouth, The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, Aldershot, England, 1996 (reprinted from Law & Society Review).

Scaglion, Richard. "Quantitative Analysis" (Chapter 17) In Seeing for Yourself: Research Handbook for Girls' Education in Africa, by E. Kane, pp. 265-286. Economic Development Institute, Washington, 1995.

Scaglion, Richard and Kimberly A. Soto. "A Prehistoric Introduction of the Sweet Potato in New Guinea?" In Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea. A. Strathern and G. Stürzenhofecker (eds.), pp. 257-294. ASAO Monograph No. 15, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1994.

Scaglion, Richard. "Legal Planning in Papua New Guinea." In Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader (second edition). A. Podolefsky and P. J. Brown (eds.), pp. 199-207. Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View, CA, 1994.

Scaglion, Richard. "Reconstructing First Contact: Some Local Effects of Labor Recruitment in the Sepik." In Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea. N. Lutkehaus et al. (eds.), pp. 50-57. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 1990.

Roscoe, Paul B. and Richard Scaglion. "Male Initiation and European Intrusion in the Sepik: A Preliminary Analysis." In Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea. N. Lutkehaus et al. (eds.), pp. 414-423. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 1990.

Scaglion, Richard. "Preface." In Customary Law and Legal Development in Papua New Guinea. R. Scaglion (ed.), pp. 1-5. The Journal of Anthropology Vol. 6 No. 1., 1987.

Scaglion, Richard. "Seasonal Births in a Western Abelam Village." In The Survey Under Difficult Conditions: Population Data Collection and Analysis in Papua New Guinea. T. McDevitt (ed.), vol. 2, pp. 250-263. HRAF Press, Buffalo, 1987 (reprinted from Human Biology).

Scaglion, Richard. "Customary Law Development in Papua New Guinea." In Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action. R. M. Wulff and S. Fiske (eds.), pp. 98-108. Westview Press, Boulder, 1987.

Scaglion, Richard. "Sexual Segregation and Ritual Pollution in Abelam Society: Implications for Data Collection." In Self, Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork. T. L. Whitehead and M. E. Conaway (eds.), pp. 151-163. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1986.

Scaglion, Richard and Rose Whittingham. "Female Plaintiffs and Sex-Related Disputes in Rural Papua New Guinea." In Domestic Violence in Papua New Guinea. S. Toft (ed.), pp. 120-133. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, Monograph No. 3, Port Moresby, 1985.

Scaglion, Richard. "The Role of Custom in Law Reform." In Essays on the Constitution of Papua New Guinea. R. DeVere, D. Colquhoun-Kerr, and J. Kaburise (eds.), pp. 31-38. Tenth Anniversary Advisory Committee, Port Moresby, 1985.

Scaglion, Richard. "Kiaps as Kings: Abelam Legal Change in Historical Perspective." In History and Ethnohistory in Papua New Guinea. D. Gewertz and E. L. Schieffelin (eds.), pp. 77-99. Oceania Monograph No. 28, Sydney, 1985.

Scaglion, Richard and Richard G. Condon. "Determinants of Attitudes Towards City Police." In Police and Law Enforcement, Volume 3. D. B. Kennedy and R. J. Homant (eds.), pp. 107-114. AMS Press, New York, 1985 (reprinted from Criminology).

Scaglion, Richard. "Analysing the Results." In Doing Your Own Research: Basic Descriptive Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, by E. Kane, Chapter XI (pp. 151-175). Turoe Press, Dublin; Marion Boyars, London, 1983.

Scaglion, Richard. "Introduction." In Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View. R. Scaglion (ed.), pp. i-x. PNG Government Printer, Port Moresby, 1983.

Scaglion, Richard and Robert Gordon. "Introduction." In Homicide Compensation in Papua New Guinea. R. Scaglion (ed.), pp. 1-4. PNG Office of Information, Port Moresby, 1981.

Scaglion, Richard. "The Plains Culture Area Concept." In Anthropology on the Great Plains. W. R. Wood and M. Liberty (eds.), pp. 23-34. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1980.

Watters, David R. and Richard Scaglion. "The Utility of a Transect Survey Technique in Caribbean Prehistoric Studies: Applications on Barbuda and Montserrat." In Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress for the Study of the Pre-Columbian Cultures of the Lesser Antilles. S. M. Lewenstein (ed.), pp. 338-347. Arizona State University, Anthropological Research Papers No. 22, 1980.

Liberty, Margot, David V. Hughey, and Richard Scaglion. "Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility." In Anthropological Studies of Human Fertility. B. A. Kaplan (ed.), pp. 59-71. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1976 (reprinted from Human Biology).

Contributions in Encyclopedias

Scaglion, Richard. “Papua New Guinea.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Peter N. Stearns, ed., (e-reference edition: http://www.oxford-modernworld.com/entry?entry=t254.e1205). Oxford University Press, New York, 2010.

Scaglion, Richard. “Papua New Guinea.” In Encyclopedia of The World’s Minorities. Carl Skutsch, ed., Martin Ryle, cons. ed., Vol. 3 pp. 948-949. Routledge, New York, 2005.

Scaglion, Richard. “Abelam.” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures. Carol and Melvin Ember, eds., pp. 257-264. Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, New York, 2004.

Scaglion, Richard. "Traditional Sanctions and Laws." In The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Brij V. Lal and K. Fortune, eds., pp. 429-432. Asia Pacific Press and University of Hawai’i Press, Canberra and Honolulu, 2000.

Scaglion, Richard. "Abelam." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Adrienne L. Kaeppler and J. W. Love, (volume eds.), pp. 549-550. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1998.

Scaglion, Richard. "Social Control." In The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds., pp. 1194-1197. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1996.

Scaglion, Richard. "Keraki." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Volume II: Oceania. Terry E. Hays, (volume ed.), pp. 112-114. G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1991.

Scaglion, Richard. "Orokolo." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Volume II: Oceania. Terry E. Hays, (volume ed.), pp. 258-261. G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1991.

Scaglion, Richard. "Tangu." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Volume II: Oceania. Terry E. Hays, (volume ed.), pp. 310-313. G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1991.

Book Reviews

Scaglion, Richard. Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia by Roy Ellen (ed.), Berghahn Books. Human Ecology 38:175-176, 2010.

Scaglion, Richard. Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film by Robert Gardiner foreword by Phillip Lopate, edited by Charles Warren, designed by Jeannet Leendertse, Peabody Museum Press (Harvard University Press). Pacific Affairs 83(1):e21-22, 2010.

Scaglion, Richard. Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard, Berghahan Books. Oceania 80(2):230, 2010.

Scaglion, Richard. Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 by Rainier F. Buschmann, University of Hawai’i Press. Bulletin of the Pacific Circle 23:18-20, 2009.

Scaglion, Richard. Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi and Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (eds.), University of Illinois Press. Pacific Affairs 82:563-564, 2009.

Scaglion, Richard. Reconciling Customary Law and Received Law in Melanesia: The Post-Independence Experience in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu by Kenneth Brown, Charles Darwin University Press. Oceania 78:128, 2008.

Scaglion, Richard. Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking Peoples by Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide (eds.), Pacific Linguistics. American Anthropologist 109:406-407, 2007.

Scaglion, Richard. Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea by Paige West, Duke University Press. American Anthropologist 109:424, 2007.

Scaglion, Richard. The Unseen City: Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard, Pandanus Books and the Australian National University. Pacific Affairs 78:689-690, 2006.

Scaglion, Richard. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society by Joel Robbins, University of California Press. Pacific Studies 29:144-146, 2006.

Scaglion, Richard. Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods by June Starr and Mark Goodale (eds.), Palgrave - Macmillan. Anthropological Forum 15:98-100, 2005.

Scaglion, Richard. Law & Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai’i by Sally Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis (eds.), School of American Research Press. Journal of Anthropological Research 61:107-109, 2005.

Scaglion, Richard. Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture & History by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz, University of Chicago Press. American Anthropologist 107:726-727, 2005.

Scaglion, Richard. Anthropology & Law by James M. Donovan and H. Edwin Anderson, III, Berghahan Books. Anthropos 99:618-619, 2004.

Scaglion, Richard. Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea by Nigel A. Stephenson, Basler Beiträge zu Ethnologie, Band 40, Wepf & Co. Oceania 73:224, 2003.

Scaglion, Richard. A Compensation Claims Procedure for Papua New Guinea: Report to the Institute of National Affairs, Port Moresby by Deborah Dwyer, Terence Dwyer, Graham Ellis, Michael Ward and Daniel Fitzpatrick, Asia Pacific Press. The Contemporary Pacific 14:484-486, 2002.

Scaglion, Richard. The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine by Robert Paddle, Cambridge University Press. Pacific Affairs 75:338-340, 2002.

Scaglion, Richard. Bird’s Head Approaches: Irian Jaya Studies– A Programme for Interdisciplinary Research by Gert-Jan Bartstra (ed.), Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, Vol. 15, A.A. Balkema. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde 158:585-586, 2002.

Scaglion, Richard. Isles of Refuge: Wildlife and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands by Mark J. Rauzon, University of Hawai’s Press. Pacific Affairs 74:627-628, 2001.

Scaglion, Richard. Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos, Cambridge University Press. Ethnohistory 47:273-275, 2000.

Scaglion, Richard. Beneath the Volcano: Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia by Gregory Forth, KITLV Press. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 31:418-420, 2000.

Scaglion, Richard. Sela Valley: The Ethnography of a Mek Society in the Eastern Highlands, Irian Jaya, Indonesia by Jan A. Godschalk, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Anthropos 94:271-27, 1999.

Scaglion, Richard. Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.), Stanford University Press. Ethnos 64:429-430, 1999.

Scaglion, Richard. The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field by Jane C. Goodale, with Ann Chowning, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. American Anthropologist 100:566-567, 1998.

Scaglion, Richard. Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea by Paula Brown, University of Hawaii Press. Pacific Affairs 70:308-309, 1997.

Scaglion, Richard. Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays Presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday by Richard Feinberg and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (eds.), Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 66, Althone Press. The Journal of the Polynesian Society 106:296-297, 1997.

Scaglion, Richard. Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village by Michael French Smith, University of Hawaii Press. The Contemporary Pacific 7:404-406, 1995.

Scaglion, Richard. Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions by G. W. Trompf, Cambridge University Press. Anthropological Forum 7:334-336, 1995.

Scaglion, Richard. The Morphology of Wambon by Lourens de Vries and Robinia de Vries-Wiersma, KITLV Press. Antara Kita 36:13, 1994.

Scaglion, Richard. Mundugumor by Nancy McDowell, Smithsonian Institution Press. American Ethnologist 21:637-638, 1994.

Scaglion, Richard. The Culture of Coincidence: Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli by Laurence Goldman,

Clarendon Press Oxford. Man 29:512-513, 1994.

Scaglion, Richard. Of People and Plants: A Botanical Ethnography of Nokopo Village, Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea by Christin Kocher Schmid, Wepf Verlag. Anthropos 88:253-254, 1993.

Scaglion, Richard. The Pacific Islands by Douglas L. Oliver, University of Hawaii Press. American Anthropologist 92:795-796, 1990.

Scaglion, Richard. Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life by Jean Lave, Cambridge University Press. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 14:290-291, 1990.

Scaglion, Richard. Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands: Encounters with Enga by Robert J. Gordon and Mervyn J. Meggitt, University Press of New England. Pacific Studies 10:97-99, 1986.

Scaglion, Richard. Structural Models in Anthropology by Per Hage and Frank Harary, Cambridge University Press. American Anthropologist 87:171-172, 1985.

Scaglion, Richard. Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies by Andrew Strathern (ed.), Cambridge University Press. American Anthropologist 86:220-221, 1984.

Scaglion, Richard. Auyana: Those Who Held Onto Home by Sterling Robbins, University of Washington Press. Pacific Studies 8:156-158, 1984.

Scaglion, Richard and David N. Maynard. Law and State in Papua New Guinea by Peter Fitzpatrick, Academic Press. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Newsletter 6:13-15, 1982.

Scaglion, Richard. Blood and Semen: Kinship Systems of Highland New Guinea by Edwin A. Cook and Denise O'Brien (eds.), Columbia University Press. American Anthropologist 83:704-705, 1981.

Scaglion, Richard. The Disputing Process: Law in Ten Societies by Laura Nader and Harry F. Todd, Jr. (eds.), Columbia University Press. Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Newsletter 4(1):11-12, 1980.

Scaglion, Richard. The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity by Donald F. Tuzin, University of California Press. American Anthropologist 80:451-452, 1978.