Ryan Schram Yawahigu ana amwahao Ol rot bilong laip bilong mi (or, Curriculum vitae)
publications
Article
“Sanguma em i stap (Sanguma is real)”: Sorcery stories and the ethnographic citizenship of Tok Pisin print journalism
Current Anthropology 64(1): 49-73 (2023)
Article
Independent declarations: Attributions of peoplehood in news narratives
Signs and Society 10(3): 287–313 (2022)
Article
The compensation page News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism
The Contemporary Pacific 34(1): 63–94 (2022)
Encyclopedia article
Translation
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, edited by James Stanlaw. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. (2020)
Review
The rights of the dead (A book symposium comment on Erik Mueggler’s Songs for dead parents [2017])
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(3): 1109–1112 (2020)
Article
The tribe next door: The New Guinea Highlands in a postwar Papuan mission newspaper
The Australian Journal of Anthropology 30(1): 18–34 (2019)
Encyclopedia article
Religion and economy
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. (2018)
Monograph
Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (2018)
Review
Nils Bubandt, The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
Oceania 87(2): 231–232 (2017)
Review
Kinship with God: Indigenous Christianity in an Amazonian World
Marginalia: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel (2017)
Article
“Tapwaroro is true”: Indigenous voice and the heteroglossia of Methodist missionary translation in British New Guinea
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 26(3): 259–277 (2016)
Review
Debra McDougall, Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in Rural Solomon Islands
Oceania 86(2): 210–211 (2016)
Article
Indecorous, Too Hasty, Incorrect: Market and Moral Imagination in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
Anthropological Quarterly 89(2): 515–537 (2016)
Article
Birds Will Cover the Sky: Humiliation and Meaning in Two Historical Narratives from Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
Ethnohistory 63(1): 95–117 (2016)
Review
Jeffrey Sissons, The Polynesian Iconoclasm: Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power
Oceania 85 (2): 243–244 (2015)
Article
A society divided: Death, personhood, and Christianity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(1): 317–337 (2015)
Article
Notes on the Sociology of Wantoks in Papua New Guinea
Anthropological Forum 25(1): 3–20 (2015)
Review
Marshall Sahlins, What Kinship Is–And Is Not
The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(3): 289–292 (2014)
Article
Only the names have changed: Dialectic and differentiation of the indigenous person in Papua New Guinea
Anthropological Theory 14(2): 133–152 (2014)
Review
Liana Chua, The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo
Comparative Studies in Society and History 55(3): 756–757 (2013)
Review
Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall (eds.), Christian Politics in Oceania
The Australian Journal of Anthropology 24(3): 357–359 (2013)
Article
One Mind: Enacting the Christian Congregation in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology 24 (1): 30–47 (2013)
Review essay
The Border in the Eye of the Beholder: Interculturalism in the Pacific
Anthropological Quarterly 85 (4): 1257–67 (2012)
Article
Finding Money: Business and Charity in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
Ethnos 75 (4): 447–70 (2010)
Article
Witches’ Wealth: Witchcraft, Confession and Christian Personhood in Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16 (4): 726–742 (2010)
Thesis