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Number of items: 38.
Article
  • Scott, Michael W. (2024). Religence: conceptualising posthuman religion. Social Anthropology, 32(2), 93 - 111. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.022003 picture_as_pdf
  • Scott, Michael W. (2023). Honiara: village-city of Solomon Islands. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 69(3), 574-576. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12945 picture_as_pdf
  • Scott, Michael W. (2021). How the missionary got his mana: Charles Elliot Fox and the power of name-exchange in Solomon Islands. Oceania, 91(1), 106 - 127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5286 picture_as_pdf
  • Scott, Michael W. (2018). God is other(s): anthropological pietism and the beings of metamorphosis. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1/2), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/698409 picture_as_pdf
  • Scott, Michael W. (2017). Getting more real with wonder: an afterword. Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 3(3), 212-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/20566093.2017.1351174
  • Scott, Michael W. (2016). To be Makiran is to see like Mr Parrot: the anthropology of wonder in Solomon Islands. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(3), 474 - 495. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12442
  • Scott, Michael W. (2015). Cosmogony today: counter-cosmogony, perspectivism, and the return of anti-biblical polemic. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 6(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2015.060104
  • Scott, Michael W. (2015). Book review: The ethnographic experiment: A. M. Hocart and W. H. R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908, Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg, eds. Journal of Anthropological Research, 71(3), 749-750.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2015). Book review: Verguet's sketchbook: a Marist missionary artist in 1840s Oceania. Outrigger, 58, p. 10.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Book review: anthropological cosmochemistry. Anthropology of This Century, (11),
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Equal time for entities. Fieldsights: Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology Online,
  • Scott, Michael W. (2013). The anthropology of ontology (religious science?). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19(4), 859-872. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12067
  • Scott, Michael W. (2013). Book review: truth in motion: the recursive anthropology of Cuban divination. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 4(1), 217-221.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2013). Book review: an Otago storeman in Solomon Islands: the diary of William Crossan, copra trader, 1885–86. Journal of Pacific History, 48(2), 241-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2013.793261
  • Venkatesan, Soumhya, Martin, Keir, Scott, Michael W., Pinney, Christopher, Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai, Cook, Joanna, Strathern, Marilyn (2013). The group for debates in anthropological theory (GDAT), The University of Manchester: the 2011 annual debate - non-dualism is philosophy not ethnography. Critique of Anthropology, 33(3), 300-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X13490310
  • 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), 115-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2012.649276
  • Scott, Michael W. (2011). Book review: my God, my land: interwoven paths of Christianity and tradition in Fiji. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 2, 193-194.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2009). Book review: tell it as it is: autobiography of Rt.Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, KBE, PC Solomon Islands. New Zealand Journal of History, 43(1), 110-111.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2007). Neither "new Melanesian history" nor "new Melanesian ethnography": recovering emplaced matrilineages in southeast Solomon Islands. Oceania, 77(3), 337-354.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2005). 'I was like Abraham' : notes on the anthropology of Christianity from the Solomon Islands. Ethnos, 70(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840500048565
  • 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), 190-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417505000083
  • Scott, Michael W. (2003). Book review: inscribed landscapes: marking and making place. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(2), 176-178.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2003). Book review: emplaced myth: space, narrative, and knowledge in aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea. American Ethnologist, 30(2), 331-332. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.331
  • Scott, Michael W. (2000). Ignorance is cosmos; knowledge is chaos: articulating a cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. Social Analysis, 44(2), 56-83.
    • Book
  • Scott, Michael W. (2007). The severed snake: matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands. Carolina Academic Press.
    • Chapter
  • Scott, Michael W. (2022). Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: exploring anamorphic comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon missions and the Anglican Melanesian mission. In Jolly, Karen Louise, Brooks, Britton Elliott (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England (pp. 190 - 216). Boydell & Brewer. picture_as_pdf
  • Scott, Michael W. (2015). When people have a vision they are very disobedient. A Solomon Islands case study for the anthropology of Christian ontologies. In Reinhard, Wolfgang, Linkenbach-Fuchs, Antje, Fuchs, Martin (Eds.), Individualisierung durch christliche Mission? (pp. 635 - 650). Otto Harrassowitz (Firm).
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity. In Abramson, Allen, Holbraad, Martin (Eds.), Framing Cosmologies: The Anthropology of Worlds (pp. 31-54). Manchester University Press.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Collecting Makira: kakamora stones, shrine stones and the grounds for things in Arosi. In Burt, Ben, Bolton, Lissant (Eds.), The Things We Value: Culture and History in the Solomon Islands (pp. 67-79). Sean Kingston Publishing.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Aquarelles de Léopold Verguet, île de Makira. In Mélandri, Magali, Revolon, Sandra (Eds.), L'Éclat des ombres : L'Art en noir et blanc des Îles Salomon (pp. 110-113). Coédition Musée du Quai Branly, Somogy éditions d'art.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). La métaphysique des particules. In Mélandri, Magali, Revolon, Sandra (Eds.), L'Éclat des ombres : L'Art en noir et blanc des Îles Salomon (pp. 172-176). Coédition Musée du Quai Branly, Somogy éditions d'art.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). La pêche à la bonite: au cœur d’un maelström sacré. In Mélandri, Magali, Revolon, Sandra (Eds.), L'Éclat des ombres : L'Art en noir et blanc des Îles Salomon (pp. 165-169). Coédition Musée du Quai Branly, Somogy éditions d'art.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2013). Dance-clubs of south-east Solomon Islands. In Bolton, Lissant, Thomas, Nicholas, Bonshek, Elizabeth, Adams, Julie, Burt, Ben (Eds.), Melanesia: Art and Encounter (pp. 245-247). British Museum.
  • 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, McDougall, Debra (Eds.), Christian Politics in Oceania (pp. 49-77). Berghahn Books.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2011). The Makiran underground army: kastom mysticism and ontology politics in Southeast Solomon Islands. In Hviding, Edvard, Rio, Knut M. (Eds.), Made in Oceania: Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific (pp. 195-222). Sean Kingston Publishing.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2008). Proto-people and precedence: encompassing Euroamericans through narratives of 'first contact' in Solomon Islands. In Stewart, Pamela J., Strathern, Andrew (Eds.), Exchange and Sacrifice (pp. 141-176). Carolina Academic Press.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Scott, Michael W. (2012-04-25 - 2012-04-28) When people have a vision they are very disobedient: a Solomon Islands case study for the anthropology of Christian ontologies [Paper]. Individualization through Christian missionary activity, Erfurt, Germany, DEU.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2002-07-04 - 2002-07-06) Present primordialities: the post-colonial landscape in Arosi (Solomon Islands) [Paper]. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Vienna, Austria, AUT.