"Scott, Michael W."

Article

Scott, Michael W. (2012) The matter of Makira: colonialism, competition, and the production of gendered peoples in contemporary Solomon Islands and medieval Britain. History and anthropology, 23 (1). pp. 115-148. ISSN 0275-7206

Scott, Michael W. (2007) Neither "new Melanesian history" nor "new Melanesian ethnography": recovering emplaced matrilineages in southeast Solomon Islands. Oceania, 77 (3). pp. 337-354. ISSN 0029-8077

Scott, Michael W. (2005) 'I was like Abraham' : notes on the anthropology of Christianity from the Solomon Islands. Ethnos, 70 (1). pp. 101-125. ISSN 0014-1844

Scott, Michael W (2005) Hybridity, vacuity, and blockage: visions of chaos from anthropological theory, island Melanesia, and central Africa. Comparative studies in society and history, 47 (1). pp. 190-216. ISSN 0010-4175

Scott, Michael W. (2000) Ignorance is cosmos; knowledge is chaos: articulating a cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. Social analysis, 44 (2). pp. 56-83. ISSN 0155-977X

Book Section

Scott, Michael W. (2013) "Heaven on earth" or Satan’s "base" in the Pacific?: internal Christian politics in the dialogic construction of the Makiran underground army. In: Tomlinson, Matt and McDougall, Debra, (eds.) Christian politics in Oceania. ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology (2). Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780857457462

Scott, Michael W. (2011) The Makiran underground army: kastom mysticism and ontology politics in Southeast Solomon Islands. In: Hviding, Edvard and Rio, Knut M., (eds.) Made in Oceania: social movements, cultural heritage and the state in the Pacific. Sean Kingston Publishing, Wantage, UK, pp. 195-222. ISBN 9781907774065

Scott, Michael W. (2008) Proto-people and precedence: encompassing Euroamericans through narratives of 'first contact' in Solomon Islands. In: Stewart, Pamela J. and Strathern, Andrew, (eds.) Exchange and sacrifice. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N. C., USA, pp. 141-176. ISBN 9781594601798

Scott, Michael W. Collecting Makira: kakamora stones, shrine stones, and the grounds for things in Arosi. In: Burt, Ben and Bolton, Lissant, (eds.) The things we value: culture and history in the Solomon Islands. Sean Kingston Publishing, Oxford, UK. (In Press)

Conference or Workshop Item

Scott, Michael W. (2002) Present primordialities: the post-colonial landscape in Arosi (Solomon Islands). In: Fifth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, 4-6 July 2002, University of Vienna, Austria. (Unpublished)

Book

Scott, Michael W. (2007) The severed snake: matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands. Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs . Carolina Academic Press, Durham, USA. ISBN 1594601534