Andrew Strathern Explained

Andrew Jamieson Strathern (born 19 January 1939) is a British anthropologist.

Strathern earned a doctorate at the University of Cambridge, and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, where he serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology.^[1] He is married to Pamela J. Stewart, a fellow anthropologist employed at Pitt. A collection of their joint work is held at the University of Pittsburgh, as the Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern Archive,^[2] and at the University of California, San Diego, as the Strathern (Andrew) and Pamela J. Stewart Photographs and Audiorecordings.^[3] Andrew Strathern is a fellow of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.^[4] He was previously married to Marilyn Strathern.

Selected publications

• Book: Strathern . Andrew . The Rope of Moka: Big-men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea . 1971 . Cambridge University Press . 9780521099578. ^[5]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Strathern . Marilyn . Self Decoration In Mount Hagen . 1971 . Backworth . 9780715605165. ^[6]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . One Father, One Blood: Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People . 1972 . Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences . 9780708106990. ^[7]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Ongka: A Self Account By A New Guinea Big Man . 1979 . Palgrave Macmillan . 9780312585662. ^[8]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies . 1982 . Cambridge University Press . 9780521244893. ^[9]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . A Line of Power . 1984 . Tavistock Publications . 9780422789004. ^[10]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Body Thoughts . 1996 . University of Michigan Press . 9780472065806. ^[11]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Stewart . Pamela . Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective . 1999 . Carolina Academic Press . 9780890899427. ^[12]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Stewart . Pamela . Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History . 2000 . Kent State University Press . 9780873386616. ^[13]
• Book: Strathern . Andrew . Stewart . Pamela . Kinship in Action: Self and Group . 2010 . Routledge . 9780131844841. ^[14]
• Strathern, Andrew; Stewart, Pamela, et al. (2017), OceaniaAn Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders. 2nd ed. Carolina Academic Press.

External links

• Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Recordings From the Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Photographs and Audiorecordings. MSS 477. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Notes and References

1. News: Andrew J. Strathern . 2 January 2022 . University of Pittsburgh.
2. News: Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew J. Strathern Archive . 2 January 2022 . University of Pittsburgh.
3. News: Strathern (Andrew) and Pamela J. Stewart Photographs and Audiorecordings . 2 January 2022 . Online Archives of California. Alternate link
4. News: ANDREW STRATHERN (FELLOW) . 2 January 2022 . Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
5. Wagner . Roy . Ethnology: The Rope of Moka: Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. ANDREW STRATHERN . American Anthropologist . December 1972 . 74 . 6 . 1415–1416 . 10.1525/aa.1972.74.6.02a00440.
6. Lewis . Phillip H. . Ethnology: Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen. ANDREW STRATHERN and MARILYN STRATHERN . American Anthropologist . April 1973 . 72 . 5 . 436 . 10.1525/aa.1973.75.2.02a00490.
7. Glasse . Robert M. . Ethnology: One Father, One Blood: Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People. ANDREW STRATHERN . American Anthropologist . October 1974 . 76 . 4 . 909–910 . 10.1525/aa.1974.76.4.02a00560. free .
8. Lindenbaum . Shirley . Ethnology: Ongka: A Self-Account by a New Guinea Big-Man. Andrew Strathern . American Anthropologist . December 1980 . 82 . 4 . 918–919 . 10.1525/aa.1980.82.4.02a00640.
9. Reviews include:
   • Weiner . James F. . Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies. Andrew Strathern . Journal of Anthropological Research . 1984 . 40 . 4 . 10.1086/jar.40.4.3629803.
   • Ledermann . Rena . Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies. ANDREW STRATHERN, ed . American Ethnologist . February 1985 . 12 . 1 . 166–167 . 10.1525/ae.1985.12.1.02a00230.
   • Scaglion . Richard . Cultural/Ethnology: Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies. Andrew Strathern . American Anthropologist . 1984 . 86 . 1 . 220–221 . 10.1525/aa.1984.86.1.02a00730. free .
10. Lederman . Rena . Social/Cultural Anthropology: A Line of Power. Andrew Strathern. . American Anthropologist . September 1986 . 88 . 3 . 751–752 . 10.1525/aa.1986.88.3.02a00640.
11. Lamb . Sarah . Body Thoughts . American Ethnologist . August 1998 . 25 . 3 . 509 . 10.1525/ae.1998.25.3.509.1.
12. Samuelson . Helle . Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective; Everyday Spirits and Medical Interventions: Ethnographic and Historical Notes on Therapeutic Conventions in Zanzibar Town; Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village; The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji; Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy: Spirituality and Cultural Transformations among the Ju!'hoansi . Medical Anthropology Quarterly . March 2001 . 15 . 1 . 130–134 . 10.1525/maq.2001.15.1.130.
13. Wesch . Michael . Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. . Pacific Studies . 2002 . 3 .
14. Pazhoohi . Farid . Kinship in Action: Self and Group . Ethnobiology Letters . 2013 . 4 . 10.14237/ebl.4.2013.20. free .