Lyle Steadman

Assistant Professor Emeritus,

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Other ASU affiliations

Emeritus Professor, Emeritus College

ANTHROPOLOGY BUILDING TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Long Bio

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

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text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">Field Specializations: Kinship, Religion, Sociocultural Anthropology

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text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">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.

Expertise Areas

Sociocultural Anthropology

Anthropology of Religion

Family Communication