Reviews for Choice
Scaglion, Richard. The Melanesian World by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason (eds.). Routledge. Choice review (in press).
Scaglion, Richard. Haunted Pacific: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania by Roger Ivan Lohmann (ed.). Carolina Academic Press. Choice review 57:3003, 2019.
Scaglion, Richard. Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands by Emily C. Donaldson. Washington. Choice review 57-1374, 2019.
Scaglion, Richard. Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing by Sean Mallon and Sébastian Galliot. University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 56-3290, 2019.
Scaglion, Richard. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Harper Colins. Choice review 57-1087, 2019.
Scaglion, Richard. Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands by Greg Dvorak. University of Hawai’i Press, Choice review 56-4416, 2019.
Scaglion, Richard. Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands by Mike T. Carson. Routledge World Archaeology. Choice review 56-1178, 2018.
Scaglion, Richard. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania by Ethan E. Cochrane and Terry L. Hunt (eds.). Oxford University Press. Choice review 56-1172, 2018.
Scaglion, Richard. Niue 1774-1974: 200 Years of Contact and Change by Margaret Pointer, University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 53-3629, 2016.
Scaglion, Richard. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Katerina Martina Teaiwa, Indiana University Press. Choice review 52-6042, 2015.
Scaglion, Richard. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History by Gregory T. Cushman, Cambridge University Press. Choice review 51-2638, 2014.
Scaglion, Richard. A Shark Going Inland is my Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai’i by Patrick Vinton Kirch, University of California Press. Choice review 50-5079, 2013.
Scaglion, Richard. Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples and Cultures by Matt K. Matsuda, Cambridge University Press. Choice review 50-0430, 2012.
Scaglion, Richard. From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural “Economy” of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands by Paul Sillitoe, Yale University Press. Choice review 49-0374, 2011.
Scaglion, Richard. Ethno-Ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society by Sonia Tidemann and Andrew Gosler (eds.), Earthscan. Choice review 48-3360, 2011.
Scaglion, Richard. Multi-ethnic bird guide of the sub-Antarctic forests of South America by Ricardo Rozzi with Francisca Massardo et al. (eds.), [2nded], University of North Texas/Universidad de Magallanes. Choice review 48-2678, 2011.
Scaglion, Richard. A Papuan Plutocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island by John Liep, Aarhus University Press. Choice review 48-0960, 2010.
Scaglion, Richard. Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place by Rupert Stasch, University of California Press. Choice review 47-5112, 2010.
Scaglion, Richard. Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization by Glenn Petersen, University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 47-5111, 2010.
Scaglion, Richard. The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu by John Patrick Taylor, Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 22. Choice review 47-0364, 2009.
Scaglion, Richard. Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest by John Barker, Broadview Press. Choice review 46-0375, 2008.
Scaglion, Richard. Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea by Stuart Kirsch, Stanford University Press. Choice review 44-6314, 2007.
Scaglion, Richard. Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea by Paige West. Duke University Press. Choice review 44-5801, 2007.
Scaglion, Richard. Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Göttingen: an exhibition held at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawai’i, February 23-May 16, 2006, the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, June 22-September 10, 2006, by Stephen Little and Peter Ruthenberg (eds.), 3v, Honolulu Academy of Arts. Choice review 44-5737, 2007.
Scaglion, Richard. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 by Brenda Johnson Clay, University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 43-5969, 2006.
Scaglion, Richard. Cannibal Talk: The Man-eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas by Gananath Obeyesekere, University of California Press. Choice review 43-4754, 2006.
Scaglion, Richard. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society by Joel Robbins, University of California Press. Choice review 42-4123, 2005.
Scaglion, Richard. Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men’s House by Gilbert Herdt, University of Michigan Press. Choice review 41-5374, 2004.
Scaglion, Richard. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History by Clive Moore, The University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 41-4825, 2004.
Scaglion, Richard. Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea by Shelley Mallett, The University of Michigan Press. Choice review 41-1639, 2003.
Scaglion, Richard. Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific by Dorothy K. Billings, Lexington Books. Choice review 40-3484, 2003.
Scaglion, Richard. An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-39 by Michael W. Young and Julia Clark, University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 40-0387, 2002.
Scaglion, Richard. Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea by Eric Kline Silverman, University of Michigan Press. Choice review 39-6503, 2002.
Scaglion, Richard. Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change by Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles, Berg. Choice review 39-4052, 2002.
Scaglion, Richard. Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll by Keith Chambers and Anne Chambers, Waveland. Choice review 39-2869, 2002.
Scaglion, Richard. Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea by Harriet Whitehead, University of Michigan Press. Choice review 38-5652, 2001.
Scaglion, Richard. Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology by Sjoerd R. Jaarsma and Marta A. Rohatynskyj (eds.), University of Hawai’i Press. Choice review 38-5090, 2001.
Scaglion, Richard. Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland : The Activation of Matriliny among the Sursurunga by Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Bergin & Garvey. Choice review 38-5088, 2001.