Publications List
Books and Collections
Feinberg, Richard and Richard Scaglion (eds.) Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-945428-15-2.
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.
Other Book-Length Works
Scaglion, Richard. Police-Community Relations Project: Research Report. Police-Community Relations Project, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973.
Scaglion, Richard. Seasonal Patterns in Western Abelam Conflict Management Practices: The Ethnography of Law in the Maprik Subdistrict, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan (77-15238), 1976.
Journal Articles
Lin, Hao-Li Lin and Richard Scaglion Austronesian Speakers and Hereditary Leadership in the Pacific. Anthropological Forum 29(3): 267-283, 2019. DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2019.1624502
Scaglion, Richard. Sago: A Disparaged but Essential Food of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea. Food, Culture & Society 20(2): 201-215, 2017. DOI:10.1080/15528014.2017.1305825
María Auxiliadora Cordero and Richard Scaglion. ¿Camote Ecuatoriano en Polinesia en Tiempos Prehispánicos? El Golfo de Guayaquil como Posible Punto de Origen. Boletín del Museo Municipal de Guayaquil 13:10-14, 2013.
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, David V. Hughey and Richard Scaglion. Rural and Urban Omaha Indian Fertility. Human Biology 48:59-71, 1976.
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 and Barry Craig. ’Filming in Cannibal-Land’: The New Guinea Ethnographic Representations of Zoologists E.A. Briggs and Jock Marshall. In Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge and People in Oceania. J. Bell and J. Halvaksz (eds.) [forthcoming].
Scaglion, Richard. 'Flying by the Seats of our Pants’: Changing Topics in the Field. In First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 and Now. L. Tamakoshi (ed.) pp. 89-101, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2018.
Scaglion, Richard. Customary Law Development in Papua New Guinea. In Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology (Fourth Edition), Gary Ferraro (ed.), pp. 103-110, Wadsworth Publishing Co., Belmont, CA, 2015 (reprinted from Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action).
Scaglion, Richard. Indigenous Education in the Pacific Islands. In Indigenous Education: Language, Culture, and Identity. W. J. Jacob, S. Y. Cheng, and M. K. Porter (eds.), pp. 281-299. Springer, Dordrecht, 2015.
Scaglion, Richard. Law (Chapter 17). In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, Revised Edition. M. Rapaport (ed.), pp. 202-213. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2013.
Scaglion, Richard. Socio-Political Organization. In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds.), pp. 157-171. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, Pittsburgh, 2012.
Scaglion, Richard and Richard Feinberg. Introduction: The Polynesian Outliers. In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds.), pp. 1-16. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, Pittsburgh, 2012.
Feinberg, Richard and Richard Scaglion. Preface. In Polynesian Outliers: The State of the Art. R. Feinberg and R. Scaglion (eds.), p. v. Ethnology Monographs No. 21, Pittsburgh, 2012.
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, Lanham, MD, 2011.
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, Lanham, 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. (translated and reprinted from Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands).
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 (reprinted from Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals).
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. Berghahn 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. 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 (reprinted from The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales From the Pacific).
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 (adapted and reprinted from Pacific Studies).
Scaglion, Richard and Todd R. Hooe. Tuber Transformations: The Impact of the Sweet Potato in the Indo-Pacific. In Consequences of Cultivar Diffusion. L. Plotnicov and R. Scaglion (eds.), pp. 105-118. Ethnology Monographs No. 17, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1999 (also in The Globalization of Food, L. Plotnicov and R. Scaglion, (eds.), pp. 105-118, Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, 2002).
Scaglion, Richard. Law. In The Pacific Islands: Environment & Society. M. Rapaport (ed.), pp. 221-233. Bess Press, Honolulu, 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. (Adapted from "Analysing the Results" In Doing Your Own Research: Basic Descriptive Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities).
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. Abelam: Giant Yams and Cycles of Sex, Warfare and Ritual. In Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals. M. Ember and C. R. Ember (eds.), pp. 3-24. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. (also in Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals, Volume 4: Asia and Oceania. M. Ember, C.R. Ember and D. Levinson (eds.), pp. 277-300, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 1998).
Scaglion, Richard. Legal Planning in Papua New Guinea. In Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. A. Podolefsky and P. J. Brown (eds.), pp. 172-180. Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View, CA, 1991 (reprinted from Oceania, with new postscript; also in second edition, 1994, pp. 199-207).
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. Ethnocentrism and the Abelam. In The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales From the Pacific. P. DeVita (ed.), pp. 29-34. Wadsworth Publishing Co., Belmont, CA, 1990.
Scaglion, Richard. Legal Planning in Papua New Guinea. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. A. Podolefsky and P. J. Brown (eds.), pp. 226-233. Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View, CA, 1989 (adapted and reprinted from Oceania).
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. 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. 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 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.
Multimedia Contributions
Scaglion, Richard. Law and Society. In MyAnthroLibrary, C.R. Ember, M. Ember and P.N. Peregrine (eds.) MyAnthroLibrary.com, 2009. Pearson (reprinted from Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science, Volume 1).
Scaglion, Richard. Abelam: Giant Yams and Cycles of Sex, Warfare and Ritual. In MyAnthroLibrary, C.R. Ember, M. Ember and P.N. Peregrine (eds.) MyAnthroLibrary.com, 2009. Pearson (reprinted from Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals).
Scaglion, Richard. Law and Society. In New Directions in Anthropology. C.R. Ember, M. Ember and P.N. Peregrine (eds.) CD-ROM. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004 (reprinted from Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science, Volume 1).
Scaglion, Richard. Abelam: Giant Yams and Cycles of Sex, Warfare and Ritual. In New Directions in Anthropology. C.R. Ember, M. Ember and P.N. Peregrine (eds.) CD-ROM. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004 (reprinted from Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals).
Popular Contributions and Brief Pieces
Scaglion, Richard. Abelam Masks: New Perspectives. Tribal Art 96:42-49. 2020. (also appears in French version as Masques de Nouvelle-Guinée: Nouvelle Perspectives).
Scaglion, Richard. Foreword. In The Stars are Eyes: A New Perspective on the Art of the Abelam, by Mark Assayag, African and Oceanic Art, pp. 6-7, 2019.
Documet, P.I., L. Macia, R. Scaglion and K. M. DeWalt. Latinos and Collectivism: Parallels between Health and Legal Issues. [abstract]. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 43 (Issue 1 Supplement):125, 2012.
Scaglion, Richard. Legal Pluralism in Pacific Island Societies. In An Ocean Apart, A Family Within: International Workshop on Austronesian Cultures and Societies, pp. 64-71. National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan, 2005. (Also in Workshop Proceedings pp 113-118).
Scaglion, Richard. Ritual Art in Cultural Context: James Tobin’s New Guinea Collection. In Melanesian Images: The Virginia M. And James D. Tobin Collection, pp. 7-18. Board of Trustees of Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 1996.
Scaglion, Richard. The Dani of New Guinea. Carnegie Magazine 61: 9,36, 1992.
Scaglion, Richard. The Samukundi Abelam of New Guinea. Carnegie Magazine 56:33-43, 1983.
Scaglion, Richard. The Martha's Vineyard Wampanoag: A Political and Demographic Overview with Historical and Cultural Bibliography. InThe Dukes County Intelligencer, Quarterly Journal of the Dukes County Historical Society 19:44-46, 1977.
Scaglion, Richard. The Moshop Tale: A Chronological Analysis of a Wampanoag Indian Myth. In The Dukes County Intelligencer, Quarterly Journal of the Dukes County Historical Society 16:19-26, 1974.
Book Reviews
Scaglion, Richard. Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area, by Jerry K. Jacka, Duke University Press. Anthropological Forum 27(2): 184-186, 2017. DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2017.1279393.
Scaglion, Richard. Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea by Ludovic Coupaye, Berghahn Books. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 18(3): 264-265, 2017. DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2017.1297191
Scaglion, Richard. Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960-1975 by Ceridwen Spark, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey. University of Queensland Press. Pacific Affairs 89(1):241-243, 2016.
Scaglion, Richard. Monumentality and Ritual Materialization in the Society Islands: The Archaeology of a Major Ceremonial Complex in the ‘Opunohu Valley, Mo‘orea by Jennifer G. Kahn and Patrick Vinton Kirch. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Anthropology 13. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11:144-146, 2016.
Scaglion, Richard. Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea by Alex Golub. Journal of Anthropological Research 71(2):273-274, 2015.
Scaglion, Richard. The Haus Tambaran of Bongiora: A View from within of the Tambaran and Yam Cults of the Abelam in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, 1972-1977 by G.J.M. Gerrits (E. Gnecchi Ruscone and C. Kaufmann, eds.), Museo delle Culture. Anthropos 109:280-281, 2014.
Scaglion, Richard. Reite Plants: An Ethnobotanical Study in Tok Pisin and English by Porer Nombo and James Leach, Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 4. Pacific Affairs 85(4):872-874, 2012.
Scaglion, Richard. Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of New Guinea by Michael Goddard, Berghahn Books. American Ethnologist 39:650-651, 2012.
Scaglion, Richard. Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard, Berghahn Books. Oceania 80(2):230, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture & History by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz, University of Chicago Press. American Anthropologist 107:726-727, 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. 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. Anthropology & Law by James M. Donovan and H. Edwin Anderson, III, Berghahn 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. 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. 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. 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. Isles of Refuge: Wildlife and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands by Mark J. Rauzon, University of Hawai’i Press. Pacific Affairs 74:627-628, 2001.
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. Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos, Cambridge University Press. Ethnohistory 47:273-275, 2000.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions by G. W. Trompf, Cambridge University Press. Anthropological Forum 7:334-336, 1995.
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. The Culture of Coincidence: Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli by Laurence Goldman, Clarendon Press Oxford. Man 29:512-513, 1994.
Scaglion, Richard. Mundugumor by Nancy McDowell, Smithsonian Institution Press. American Ethnologist 21:637-638, 1994.
Scaglion, Richard. The Morphology of Wambon by Lourens de Vries and Robinia de Vries-Wiersma, KITLV Press. Antara Kita 36:13, 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. 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. The Pacific Islands by Douglas L. Oliver, University of Hawaii Press. American Anthropologist 92:795-796, 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. Auyana: Those Who Held Onto Home by Sterling Robbins, University of Washington Press. Pacific Studies 8:156-158, 1984.
Scaglion, Richard. Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies by Andrew Strathern (ed.), Cambridge University Press. American Anthropologist 86:220-221, 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.
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