Lyle Steadman Bibliography

Lyle Steadman. “Neighbours and Killers: Residence and Dominance among the Hewa of New Guinea.” Ph.D. diss., Australian National University, Canberra, 1972.

Lyle Steadman. “Cannibal Witches in the Hewa.” Oceania, 46, no. 2 (December 1975): 114-121.

Lyle Steadman. “On the Sociocentric/Egocentric Status Dichotomy.” Current Anthropology 16, no. 3 (1975): 488.

Lyle Steadman. “The Hewa of the Lagaip River.” In Blood and Semen: Kinship Systems of Highland New Guinea, edited by E. Cook and D. O'Brien. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980.

Lyle Steadman. Review of Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands, by Shirley Lindenbaum. American Anthropologist, 82, no. 3 (September 1980): 692-694.

Lyle Steadman and Charles Merbs. “Kuru and Cannibalism?,” Review of Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek, edited by Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek. American Anthropologist 84, no. 3 (September 1982): 611-627.

Lyle Steadman. “The Killing of Witches.” Oceania 56, no. 2 (December 1985): 106-124.

Lyle Steadman and Reed Wadley. “Cannibals and Cooking.” Discover (June 1987).

Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. “Visiting Dead Ancestors: Shamans as Interpreters of Religious Traditions.” Zygon 29, no. 2 (June 1994): 173-189.

Kathryn Coe and Lyle Steadman. “The Human Breast and the Ancestral Reproductive Cycle: A Preliminary Inquiry into Breast Cancer Etiology using Modern Darwinian Theory.” Human Nature 6, no.3 (1995): 197-220.

Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. “Religion as an Identifiable Traditional Behavior Subject to Natural Selection.” Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 18, no.2 (1995): 149-164.

Lyle Steadman, Craig Palmer, and Christopher Tilley. “The Universality of Ancestor Worship.” Ethnology 35, no.1 (1996): 63-76.

Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. “Myths as Instructions from Ancestors: The Example of Oedipus.” Zygon 32, no. 3 (1997): 341-350.

Craig Palmer and Lyle Steadman. “Human Kinship as a Descendant-Leaving Strategy: A Solution to an Evolutionary Puzzle.” Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 20, no.1 (1997): 39-51.

Craig Palmer and Lyle Steadman. “With or Without Belief: A New Approach to the Definition and Explanation of Religion.” Evolution and Cognition 10, no. 1 (2004).

Craig Palmer, L. Steadman, and Reed Wadley. “Restaging the Will to Believe.” American Anthropologist (to appear June).

Craig T. Palmer, Lyle B. Steadman, and Chris Cassidy. “Traditional Religious Ritual Sacrifice: Cultural Materialism, Costly Signaling, or Descendant-Leaving Strategy?” Journal of Ritual Studies (forthcoming).