Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart are a husband and wife research team, and are both in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pittsburgh. They have published many articles and books on their fieldwork in the Pacific (e.g., Papua New Guinea), Asia (e.g. Taiwan), and Europe (e.g. Ireland and Scotland). Their most recent co-authored books include:

• Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective (1999, Carolina Academic Press)
• Collaborations and Conflicts (1999, Harcourt Brace College Publishers)
• Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History (2000, Kent State University Press)
• The Python's Back: Pathways of Comparison between Indonesia and Melanesia (2000, Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing)
• Stories, Strength and Self-Narration (2000, Adelaide, Australia: Crawford House Publishing)
• Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea (2001, Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group)
• Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western Europe (2001, Carolina Academic Press
• Remaking the World (2002, Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press)
• Violence: Theory and Ethnography (2002, New York and London: Continuum Publishing)
• Gender, Song, and Sensibility (2002, Praeger); and Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip (2004, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
• Nouvelle-Guinee. Danses de la couleur (2004, Translated French version of English text. Paris, France, Hazan)
• Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (2004, New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
• Rumours, Imagination, Body and History (2005, Long Long Book House 01 2005 3901. Chinese translation of the 2004 Strathern and Stewart lectures, "Contemporary Topics in Anthropology", presented in October 2004 at Peking University, Beijing, China. Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, ISBN 7 300 06742 5 / C 291)
• Medical Anthropology: Basics and Practices, Hironari Narita (trans.) with Rica Tomita (trans. asst.). (2009, Tokyo, Japan: Kokonshoin. Japanese Version of Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective.).
• Second edition, Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective [Updated and Revised]. (2010, Durham N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
• Kinship in Action: Self and Group. (2011, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall Publishing).
• Peace-making and the Imagination: Papua New Guinea Perspectives. (In press, 2011) Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.]

Stewart and Strathern have also co-edited many books, including:

• Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan (2005, For, Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series, London, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing)
• Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity-Making (2005, For, Ritual Studies Monograph Series, Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press)
• Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures (2007, For, Ritual Studies Monograph Series, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press)
• Exchange and Sacrifice (2008, For, Ritual Studies Monograph Series, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press)
• Chinese Version (updated and revised) of Religious and Ritual Change: Cosmologies and Histories. [Co-Edited with Yeh, Chueng-rong] (2010, Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing.
• Ritual. (The International Library of Essays in Anthropology), (2010, London: Ashgate Publishing).
• Religious and Ritual Change: Cosmologies and Histories. (2009, For, Ritual Studies Monograph Series, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press).

They are the co-editors of:

• Medical Anthropology Series (Carolina Academic Press), Ritual Studies Monograph Series (Carolina Academic Press), Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series (now complete, Ashgate Publishing), and the Journal of Ritual Studies

Their most recent research work continues to be in the Pacific, Asia, and Europe.

Website: http://www.pitt.edu/~strather

Photo Gallery
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Round sweet potato beds in gardens at high altitude on the south road from Mt. Hagen to Tambul, Papua New Guinea, 1998. The sweet potato has been of prime importance in the social evolution of societies in the Highland region. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]

Pigs lined up and tethered to stakes for a compensation payment, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, 1998. The occasion brought people from two different language groups together, since a killing had taken place between the Hagen and the Enga peoples, threatening the peace in the town of Mount Hagen itself, where immigrants from Enga live along with Hageners. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]

Large house built on stilts amid secondary regrowth in Hagu settlement among the Duna speakers of the Aluni Valley, Papua New Guinea, 1999. This house was being build for a young pastor of the Baptist church who is from the settlement, and its design reflects the status accorded to this new category of ritual leader. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]

Two statues of the Deity Mazu sit in the midst of worshipers and tables covered with offerings to honor the Deity on the celebration of her birthday. Kuantu temple in Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]

Prof. Andrew Strathern (A.W. Mellon Professor of Anthropology, U. of Pittsburgh) stands next to a newly constructed, privately funded, temple dedicated to the Earth God. He holds a fruit that a local worshiper shared with him after the worshiper prayed to the Deity at this temple, 2002. This temple is near to the Institute of Ethnology, where Prof. Strathern and Dr. Stewart are affiliated when they work in Taiwan. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]

Dr. Pamela J. Stewart (Anthropology Research Associate, U. of Pittsburgh; and Visiting Research Fellow, University of Durham, England) stands next to a resting dragon puppet that has just completed a dragon dance through the control of a local temple worship performance troupe. The location is the Kuantu temple, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002. The celebration was to mark the birthday of the Deity Mazu. [Photo from the Stewart/Strathern Photographic Archive]