Richard Scaglion
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 91156 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Scaglion |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Scaglion |
| FIRMA | SCAGLION R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Austronesian Speakers and Hereditary Leadership in the Pacific
This article explores the notion that peoples speaking Austronesian languages brought the ideology of social hierarchy based on hereditary leadership into the Pacific Islands. This social model contrasts with the strongly egalitarian leadership that likely characterised peoples already residing in New Guinea and nearby islands. While complex interactions between these two groups did occur, particularly in coastal areas, the latter populations rar…
Sago
Sago is a starchy food processed from the pith of the sago palm. Although it is their staple in the lean time between the harvests of more savory options, the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea do not relish it. The interlude between yam harvests has been called the “hungry time” (though there is plenty to eat) both because of the perceived unpalatability of sago and the monotony of a sago-based diet. But the sago palm has many advantages: it is l…
Alchemy in the Rain Forest
As recently as the 1960s, the Porgera Valley of Papua New Guinea (PNG) was a quiet backwater from which outsiders were restricted. However, within 30 years, the third largest mine in the world was
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships
"Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18(3), pp. 264–265
Monumentality and Ritual Materialization in the Society Islands
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
Gerrits, Godfried Johan Marie
Anthropos , Seite 280 - 281
Out of Place
Multiple Voices, Multiple Truths
Western history is typically written from a Western perspective. In particular, the public histories created by colonial governments characteristically ignore or downplay indigenous perspectives. This paper examines labour recruitment among the Abelam people of the Sepik Foothills of New Guinea during German colonial times and explicitly considers events from an Abelam point of view. It argues that, by considering local narratives and including l…
Conservation Is Our Government Now
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Paige West. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 320 pp
Papuan Pasts
Papuan Pasts
Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-Speaking Peoples. Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson, and Robin Hide, eds. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2006. 817 pp
Yali's Question
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History. Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 319 pp
Law & Empire in the Pacific
From Anthropologist to Government Officer and Back Again
From Anthropologist to Government Officer and Back Again
The Last Tasmanian Tiger
Then and now
Brown, Paula. Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xix + 296 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $36.00 cloth. Tuzin, Donald. The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiii + 256 pp. including notes, maps, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Biersack, Aletta, ed. P…
Isles of Refuge
Tort Litigation in Higher Education
Afterword
Research Article| January 01 2000 Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward Richard Scaglion Richard Scaglion Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 227–240. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Scaglion; Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward. Ethnohist…
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers
Book Review| January 01 2000 Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory By Harry Lourandos. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Richard Scaglion Richard Scaglion Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 273–275. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-273 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data…
Yam Cycles and Timeless Time in Melanesia
Western and Melanesian cultures frame time differently. The Western concept of time is mainly linear, whereas with the Abelam of Papua New Guinea it is primarily episodic and organized around a cycle of ceremonial yam growing. In episodic time, current events are thought to be repetitions in an unchanging temporal reality; in linear time, events cause change gradually. From the Abelam perspective, real change can only occur cataclysmically via a …
The Two-Party Line
The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field. Jane C. Goodale. with Ann Chowning. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Iittlefield, 1996. 209 pp
Beyond a Mountain Valley
The Mundugumor
Determinants of Attitudes Toward City Police
This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes toward police and police service among 273 citizens in 4 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Extensive socioeconomic and personal history data were collected for all individuals. Results indicate that personal history. particularly respondents’perceptions of the way in which specific officers have related to them personally in previous encounters, is a more significant determinant of …
Yali's Question
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History. Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 319 pp
The Culture of Coincidence
Professor Al.L. Epstein: Foreword. Introduction. 1: Accident and absolute liability in anthropology. 2: Talking with and through accident. 3: Questions of intent and the intent of questions. 4: Synergy and ideology in the linguistic structuring of 'murder' and 'misfortune'. 5: Fate and fortuity: perspectives on 'mind' and 'person'. 6: Transcript
Hunting Efficiency in Acculturated and Unacculturated Yanomama Villages
This paper examines hunting efficiency in two groups of Yanomama villages in the Catrimani River region of northern Brazil. One group, which has relocated along the Northern Perimeter Highway, has experienced resource degradation, reflected in lowered efficiency of traditional, predominantly individual hunting techniques. However, in developing a new overall subsistence strategy, this group has modified traditional hunting techniques, resulting i…
Legal Adaptation in a Papua New Guinea Village Court
As the title of Starr and Collier's (1989) recent volume, History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology suggests, anthropologists are becoming increasingly concerned with asymmetrical power relations and historical time in the comparative study of law. As anthropology concerns itself more with the politics of domination and resistance, law is more frequently seen as a vehicle for encoding and perpetuating power relat…
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers
Book Review| January 01 2000 Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory By Harry Lourandos. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Richard Scaglion Richard Scaglion Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 273–275. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-273 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data…
The Origin and Evolution of the Police Function In Society
Our theory states that the police function, in its modern form, is linked to economic specialization and differential access to resources that occur in the transition from a kinship- to a class-dominated society. This theory shows the incremental steps by which this transition may come about, both historically and cross-culturally. In addition, we examine the implications of these steps for modern police-community relations.Our theory is construc…
The Importance of Nighttime Observations in Time Allocation Studies
Most time allocation studies have been conducted during daylight hours alone. However, an exploratory study of time allocation among the Samukundi Abelam, a horticultural group of Papua New Guinea, revealed that significant activities take place after dark. Furthermore, the nature and duration of these activities differ from those observed during daylight hours. Results suggest that time allocation studies confined to daylight hours alone may con…
Yam Cycles and Timeless Time in Melanesia
Western and Melanesian cultures frame time differently. The Western concept of time is mainly linear, whereas with the Abelam of Papua New Guinea it is primarily episodic and organized around a cycle of ceremonial yam growing. In episodic time, current events are thought to be repetitions in an unchanging temporal reality; in linear time, events cause change gradually. From the Abelam perspective, real change can only occur cataclysmically via a …
Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered
During the brief period from 1700 to 1731 French missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators recorded the features of Natchez social life. In 1731 a war with the French led to the surrender and sale into slavery of one sector of the tribe and the dispersal of the remainder, who later were assimilated into the Creek confederacy. In writing the first modern ethnographic reconstruction of Natchez society and culture, Swanton (1911) had to r…
The Structure of Black and White Attitudes toward Police
Richard Scaglion is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently Director of the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea. Richard G. Condon is a doctoral candidate in anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Scaglion gathered the data for this paper when he was Research Director for the Police-Community Relations Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We are grateful to the Project Administration Committee a…
Austronesian Speakers and Hereditary Leadership in the Pacific
This article explores the notion that peoples speaking Austronesian languages brought the ideology of social hierarchy based on hereditary leadership into the Pacific Islands. This social model contrasts with the strongly egalitarian leadership that likely characterised peoples already residing in New Guinea and nearby islands. While complex interactions between these two groups did occur, particularly in coastal areas, the latter populations rar…
The Last Tasmanian Tiger
Afterword
Research Article| January 01 2000 Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward Richard Scaglion Richard Scaglion Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 227–240. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Scaglion; Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward. Ethnohist…
Samukundi Abelam Conflict Management
Sago
Sago is a starchy food processed from the pith of the sago palm. Although it is their staple in the lean time between the harvests of more savory options, the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea do not relish it. The interlude between yam harvests has been called the “hungry time” (though there is plenty to eat) both because of the perceived unpalatability of sago and the monotony of a sago-based diet. But the sago palm has many advantages: it is l…
Intensity of Cultivation and Kin Group Discreteness among Tropical Shifting Cultivators
We hypothesized that in kinship-based agricultural societies, as the intensity of use of arable land increases, the kinship groups as sociated with this use become more discrete. We used two variables: intensity of cultivation was measured by the ratio of cropping to fallowing period; kin group discreteness was measured by a Guttman scale of kin group attributes. We tested these two variables on a sample of nineteen tropical-horticultural societi…
Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered
During the brief period from 1700 to 1731 French missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators recorded the features of Natchez social life. In 1731 a war with the French led to the surrender and sale into slavery of one sector of the tribe and the dispersal of the remainder, who later were assimilated into the Creek confederacy. In writing the first modern ethnographic reconstruction of Natchez society and culture, Swanton (1911) had to r…
A Critique of Aufenanger's
Ethnology
On Australopithecine Sexual Dimorphism
Abelam yam beliefs and sociorhythmicity
The Western Abelam of Papua New Guinea display an annual cycle of social conflicts and births which is a function of a system of ritual beliefs involved in the growing of ceremonial yams. This sociorhythmic ritual complex involves adherence to various taboos which encourage a 6-month period in which social conflict is avoided and sexual activity is markedly curtailed. Conflict case studies and demographic data collected from one village over a 15…
Determinants of Attitudes Toward City Police
This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes toward police and police service among 273 citizens in 4 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Extensive socioeconomic and personal history data were collected for all individuals. Results indicate that personal history. particularly respondents’perceptions of the way in which specific officers have related to them personally in previous encounters, is a more significant determinant of …
The Structure of Black and White Attitudes toward Police
Richard Scaglion is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently Director of the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea. Richard G. Condon is a doctoral candidate in anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Scaglion gathered the data for this paper when he was Research Director for the Police-Community Relations Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We are grateful to the Project Administration Committee a…
Intensity of Cultivation and Kin Group Discreteness among Tropical Shifting Cultivators
We hypothesized that in kinship-based agricultural societies, as the intensity of use of arable land increases, the kinship groups as sociated with this use become more discrete. We used two variables: intensity of cultivation was measured by the ratio of cropping to fallowing period; kin group discreteness was measured by a Guttman scale of kin group attributes. We tested these two variables on a sample of nineteen tropical-horticultural societi…
Ethnology
Samukundi Abelam Conflict Management
Hunting Efficiency in Acculturated and Unacculturated Yanomama Villages
This paper examines hunting efficiency in two groups of Yanomama villages in the Catrimani River region of northern Brazil. One group, which has relocated along the Northern Perimeter Highway, has experienced resource degradation, reflected in lowered efficiency of traditional, predominantly individual hunting techniques. However, in developing a new overall subsistence strategy, this group has modified traditional hunting techniques, resulting i…
Cultural/Ethnology
General/Theoretical
The Importance of Nighttime Observations in Time Allocation Studies
Most time allocation studies have been conducted during daylight hours alone. However, an exploratory study of time allocation among the Samukundi Abelam, a horticultural group of Papua New Guinea, revealed that significant activities take place after dark. Furthermore, the nature and duration of these activities differ from those observed during daylight hours. Results suggest that time allocation studies confined to daylight hours alone may con…
The Origin and Evolution of the Police Function In Society
Our theory states that the police function, in its modern form, is linked to economic specialization and differential access to resources that occur in the transition from a kinship- to a class-dominated society. This theory shows the incremental steps by which this transition may come about, both historically and cross-culturally. In addition, we examine the implications of these steps for modern police-community relations.Our theory is construc…
Linguistic Anthropology
Legal Adaptation in a Papua New Guinea Village Court
As the title of Starr and Collier's (1989) recent volume, History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology suggests, anthropologists are becoming increasingly concerned with asymmetrical power relations and historical time in the comparative study of law. As anthropology concerns itself more with the politics of domination and resistance, law is more frequently seen as a vehicle for encoding and perpetuating power relat…
Entropy and convergence in Melanesian studies
Schieffelin, Edward L. and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. xix + 325 pp. including references and index. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Healey, Christopher. Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xxii + 401 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index…
The Mundugumor
The Culture of Coincidence
Professor Al.L. Epstein: Foreword. Introduction. 1: Accident and absolute liability in anthropology. 2: Talking with and through accident. 3: Questions of intent and the intent of questions. 4: Synergy and ideology in the linguistic structuring of 'murder' and 'misfortune'. 5: Fate and fortuity: perspectives on 'mind' and 'person'. 6: Transcript
Beyond a Mountain Valley
The Two-Party Line
The Two-Party Line: Conversations in the Field. Jane C. Goodale. with Ann Chowning. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Iittlefield, 1996. 209 pp
Yam Cycles and Timeless Time in Melanesia
Western and Melanesian cultures frame time differently. The Western concept of time is mainly linear, whereas with the Abelam of Papua New Guinea it is primarily episodic and organized around a cycle of ceremonial yam growing. In episodic time, current events are thought to be repetitions in an unchanging temporal reality; in linear time, events cause change gradually. From the Abelam perspective, real change can only occur cataclysmically via a …
Tort Litigation in Higher Education
Afterword
Research Article| January 01 2000 Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward Richard Scaglion Richard Scaglion Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 227–240. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Scaglion; Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward. Ethnohist…
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