Scott, Michael W.

Number of items: 38.
Anthropology
  • 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. (2022). Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: exploring anamorphic comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon missions and the Anglican Melanesian mission. In Jolly, K. L. & Brooks, B. E. (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England (pp. 190 - 216). Boydell & Brewer. 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. (2015). When people have a vision they are very disobedient. A Solomon Islands case study for the anthropology of Christian ontologies. In Reinhard, W., Linkenbach-Fuchs, A. & Fuchs, M. (Eds.), Individualisierung durch christliche Mission? (pp. 635 - 650). Otto Harrassowitz (Firm).
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Book review: anthropological cosmochemistry. Anthropology of This Century, (11),
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity. In Abramson, A. & Holbraad, M. (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, B. & Bolton, L. (Eds.), The Things We Value: Culture and History in the Solomon Islands (pp. 67-79). Sean Kingston Publishing.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Equal time for entities. Fieldsights: Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology Online,
  • Scott, Michael W. (2014). Aquarelles de Léopold Verguet, île de Makira. In Mélandri, M. & Revolon, S. (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, M. & Revolon, S. (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, M. & Revolon, S. (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). 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). Dance-clubs of south-east Solomon Islands. In Bolton, L., Thomas, N., Bonshek, E., Adams, J. & Burt, B. (Eds.), Melanesia: Art and Encounter (pp. 245-247). British Museum.
  • 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
  • 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, M. & McDougall, D. (Eds.), Christian Politics in Oceania (pp. 49-77). Berghahn Books.
  • 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. (2012-04-25 - 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. (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. (2011). The Makiran underground army: kastom mysticism and ontology politics in Southeast Solomon Islands. In Hviding, E. & Rio, K. M. (Eds.), Made in Oceania: Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific (pp. 195-222). Sean Kingston Publishing.
  • 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. (2008). Proto-people and precedence: encompassing Euroamericans through narratives of 'first contact' in Solomon Islands. In Stewart, P. J. & Strathern, A. (Eds.), Exchange and Sacrifice (pp. 141-176). Carolina Academic Press.
  • 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. (2007). The severed snake: matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands. Carolina Academic Press.
  • 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. (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.
  • Scott, Michael W. (2000). Ignorance is cosmos; knowledge is chaos: articulating a cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. Social Analysis, 44(2), 56-83.