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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.

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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)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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). 

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Scaglion, Richard. Law. In The Pacific Islands: Environment & Society. M. Rapaport (ed.), pp. 221-233. Bess Press, Honolulu, 1999.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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. 

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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. 

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Scaglion, Richard. The Dani of New Guinea. Carnegie Magazine 61: 9,36, 1992.

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Scaglion, Richard. The Samukundi Abelam of New Guinea. Carnegie Magazine 56:33-43, 1983.

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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.

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Book Reviews

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Scaglion, Richard. The Culture of Coincidence: Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli by Laurence Goldman, Clarendon Press Oxford. Man 29:512-513, 1994.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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