Scott, Michael W


Dr Michael W Scott  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

Senior Lecturer

Experience keywords:

Oceania; cosmology; ontology; Melanesia; ‘cargo cults’; Christianity; land tenure; historical anthropology

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Dr Michael W. Scott is an Oceanist with a primary focus on Melanesia; he has conducted ethnographic field research on the island of Makira in the Solomon Islands. His current theoretical interests include the anthropology of ontology; cosmology; land tenure; the anthropology of space, place, and landscape; models of sociality; ethno-histories; and indigenous Christianities.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Oceania; Solomon Islands; Melanesia

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Solomon Islands Pidgin [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Arosi (Makira, Solomon Islands) [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6057

Publications

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2013

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. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780857457462

2012

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

2011

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

2008

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

2005

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

2002

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).

2000

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

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.

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