selected scholarly activity
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journal articles
- Lost and Found in Translation: An Education in Narrative in Fieldwork and the Classroom. Interchange. 38:245-262. 2007
- Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. American Anthropologist. 106:766-767. 2004
- Speaking of Witchcraft (Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours, and Gossip, Pamela J. Stewart and AndrewStrathern). Anthropology and Humanism. 29:205-206. 2004
- Outlaw Memories: Biography and the Construction of Meaning in Postcolonial Vanuatu. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. 18:139-156. 2000
- Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. Don Fowler and Donald Hardesty, eds. American Anthropologist. 97:380-381. 1995
- Sorcery and the Silencing of Chiefs: "Words on the Wind" in Postindependence Ambae. Journal of Anthropological Research. 49:217-235. 1993
- GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project. Miles Richardson. American Anthropologist. 95:457-458. 1993
- The Fictional, the Factual, and the True. American Anthropologist. 94:695-696. 1992
- CUSTOMS IN CONFLICT - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF A CHANGING WORLD - MANNING,F, PHILIBERT,JM. Canadian Review of Sociology, The. 28:559-560. 1991
- General/Theoretical Anthropology: Literature and Anthropology. Philip A. Dennis and Wendell Aycock, eds.. American Anthropologist. 93:723-724. 1991
- When Questions Are Answers: The Message of Anthropology, According to the People of Ambae. American Anthropologist. 93:421-434. 1991
- The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II. Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom. American Anthropologist. 93:205-205. 1991
- In the Court of the Rainmaker: The Willing Deviant in Longana, Vanuatu. Anthropologica. 33:111-111. 1991
- To Die on Ambae: On the Possibility of doing Fieldwork Forever. Anthropologica. 31:25-25. 1989
- “a law unto themselves”: legal innovation in Ambae, Vanuatu. American Ethnologist. 12:603-624. 1985
- Rethinking Kastom: On the Politics of Place Naming in Vanuatu. Oceania. 55:242-251. 1985
- The Hundred Days of Sara Mata: Explaining Unnatural Death in Vanuatu. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 14:135-144. 1984
- Book Reviews. American Anthropologist. 85:215-217. 1983
- THE 100 DAYS OF MATA,SARA - EXPLAINING UNNATURAL DEATH IN VANUATU. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 14:135-144. 1983
- COURTS AND COURTSHIP IN A NEW HEBRIDEAN SOCIETY1. Oceania. 49:35-45. 1978
- big men and middlemen: the politics of law in Longana. American Ethnologist. 4:525-537. 1977
- Ethnology: Melanesians' Choice: Tadhimboko Participation in the Solomon Islands Cash Economy. I. Q. LASAQA. American Anthropologist. 77:942-942. 1975