Welcome to the Publications page

Welcome to the Publications page.

Here is a list of most of my publications (not including books):

2010 Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment. With Joseph Henrich (Corresponding Author),Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Science 327: 1480-1484.

2008 More “Altruistic” Punishment in Larger Societies. With Frank W. Marlowe (Corresponding Author), J. Colette Berbesque, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jean Ensminger, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Richard McElreath, and David Tracer. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 587–590.

2007 Rethinking the Arbitrariness of Language. In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology, 5^th ed. P. C. Rice and D. W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 61-65. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

2006 Costly Punishment Across Human Societies. With Joseph Henrich (Corresponding Author),Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Barrett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Science 213 (5781): 1767–1770.

2006 Review of Tattoo: An Anthropology. Makiko Kuwahara. Oxford: Berg. The American Historical Review 111:1494–1495.

2005 Holding a “Witch Election.” In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology, 4^th ed. P. C. Rice and D. W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 131–133. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

2005 Review of Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments. Glyndwyr Williams, ed. Suffolk: The Boydell Press: 2004. The American Historical Review 110:1512–1514.

2005 Review of The Myth of the Noble Savage. Ter Ellingson. Berkeley: University of California Press: 2001. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11:589–592.

2005 A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness. With D.M.T. Fessler (Corresponding Author), D. Nettle, Y. Afshar, I. de Andrade Pinheiro, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, M. Cravalho, T. Delgado, B. Gruzd, M. Oliveira Correia, D. Khaltourina, A. Korotayev, J. Marrow, L. Santiago de Souza, and A. Zbarauskaite. Archives of Sexual Behavior 34:267–276.

2002 Our Propensity to Delude Ourselves: Institutionalized Defense Mechanisms in the Church. Christian Counseling Today 10(3): 34–37.

2001 Gender and Residence in Southern New Ireland. Notes on Anthropology 5:61–73.

2001 Biology and the New Modernism in Twenty-first Century Social Science. Christian Scholar’s Review 30:435–450.

1999 Culture and Cognition. Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed., D.G. Benner, ed. Pp. 305–307. Grand Rapids: Baker Books.

1998 Economic Cooperatives, Development, and Matriliny in Papua New Guinea. Notes on Anthropology 2:31–49.

1998 Watching Our P’s and Q’s in Teaching Anthropology. Anthropology Newsletter 39(8):15.

1998 Where is Claes Pietersz Bay?: An Episode in the History of the Sursurunga of New Ireland. Ethnohistory 45:319–347.

1997 Review of Articulating Change in the “Last Unknown” by F. K. Errington and D. B. Gewertz. Pacific Studies 19:151–153.

1996 Musings on Matriliny: Understandings and Social Relations Among the Sursurunga of New Ireland. In Gender, Kinship, Power. M.J. Maynes, A. Waltner, B. Soland, and U. Strasser, eds. Pp. 81–97. London: Routledge.

1996 With Thomas N. Headland. Review of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change by M.L. Goldberger, B.A. Maher, and P.E. Flattau, eds. Notes on Linguistics 75:38–40.

1995 Hegemony and Voice in Papua New Guinea. Review of Constructing Inequality by R. C. Kelly and Voices of Conflict by A.J. Strathern. American Anthropologist 97:139–141.

1995 Matriliny and Revisionist Anthropology. Anthropos 90:169–180.

1995 Second Reply to Watson-Franke. Anthropos 90:585–586.

1994 The Care and Feeding of Anthropological Science: Toward a Methodology for S.I.L. Fieldworkers. Notes on Anthropology and Intercultural Community Work 14:3–15.

1994 Defending Against Grief on New Ireland: The Place of Mortuary Feasting in Sursurunga Society. Journal of Ritual Studies 8:115–133.

1994 Legitimacy, Coercion, and Leadership Among the Sursurunga of Southern New Ireland. Ethnology 33:53–63.

1988 Messages From Symbols That We Often Miss. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 24:230–234.

1985 How We Reduced Those Early Cultural Surprises. Evangelical Missions Quarterly 21:266–271. (Reprinted 1988. In Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions. K.S. O’Donnell and M.L. O’Donnell, eds. Pp. 329–334. Pasadena: William Carey Library.)