Lyle B. Steadman
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Australian National University, 1972
SHESC Theme: Culture, Heritage and Identity
Field Specializations: Kinship, Religion, Sociocultural Anthropology
Regional Focus: Oceania
Contact: Lyle B. Steadman
About
Steadman focuses on religion and kinship, especially their interrelationship, and the influence of natural selection on human social and cultural behavior. He has done extensive research among the Hewa, a society in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. A short period of fieldwork was also conducted in an Indian village in Baja California, Mexico.
Select Publications
Steadman, L.B. (1975). Cannibal witches among the Hewa. Oceania, 46(2), 114-121.
Steadman, L.B. (1985). The killing of witches. Oceania, 56(2), 106-124.
Steadman, L.B. & Merbs, C. (1982). Kuru and cannibalism? [Review of the book Kuru: Early letters and field-notes from the collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek]. American Anthropologist, 84(3), 611-627.
