Lyle Steadman

Assistant Professor Emeritus
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Biography
Lyle 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.
Education
Ph.D. Australian National University 1972
Research Interests
SHESC Themes: Culture, Heritage and Identity
Field Specializations: Kinship, Religion, Sociocultural Anthropology
Regional Focus: Oceania
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.
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