Rupert Stasch

Selected Publications:

 

2009    Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place. University of California Press.

2008    Knowing Minds is a Matter of Authority: Political Dimensions of Opacity Statements in Korowai Moral Psychology. Anthropological Quarterly 81(2): 443-453.

2008    Referent-Wrecking in Korowai: A New Guinea Abuse Register as Ethnosemiotic Protest. Language in Society 37(1):1-25.  

2007    Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community. In Bambi Schieffelin and Miki Makihara, eds., Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies, pp. 96-124. Oxford University Press.  

2006    Structuralism in Anthropology. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, vol. 12, pp. 167-170. Oxford: Elsevier.  

2003    The Semiotics of World-Making in Korowai Feast Longhouses. Language & Communication 23(3/4):359-383.  

2003    Separateness as a Relation: The Iconicity, Univocality, and Creativity of Korowai Mother-in-law Avoidance. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (n.s.) 9(2):311-329.  

2002    Joking Avoidance: A Korowai Pragmatics of Being Two. American Ethnologist 29(2):335-365.  

2001    Giving Up Homicide: Korowai Experience of Witches and Police. Oceania 72(1):33-52.