Martin
Ottenheimer, Ph.D.

PUBLICATIONS
- Review of Robert Parkin & Linda Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family:
An Anthropological Reader. Anthropological Quarterly
80(2):597-610. 2007.
- Why
I am Not a Cultural Relativist. Paper presented at the CSAS meetings. Minneapolis, April,
2007.
- Comoro Islands.
Pp. 487-93 in New Encyclopedia of Africa.
Charles Scribner's Sons. 2007. With Harriet
Joseph Ottenheimer.
- Seafaring and Navigation
4000-1000 BCE. Encyclopedia of World History. In Press.
- The Anthropology of
Kinship: An Introductory Text. National Social Science Press. www.nsspress.com. 2006.
- The Seasons of Kinship. Journal
of Cognition and Culture 3(4):335-340. 2003.
- Living in the Comoro Islands. Escape From America
Magazine With Harriet Ottenheimer. May, 2003. (www.escapeartist.com/efam/46/Living_In_Comoros.html)
- US SAILING Judges
Manual: 2001 – 2004. Portsmouth,
RI: United States Sailing
Association. Editor. 2003.
- The Current Controversy in
Kinship. The Czech Sociological Review 9(2):201-210. 2001.
- The Cultural Analysis of
Kinship: The Legacy of David Schneider. University of Illinois
Press. 2001.(Edited with Richard Feinberg)
- Relativism in Kinship
Analysis. In The Cultural Analysis of Kinship. 2001.
- Review of Kinship and Social
Organization: an interactive tutorial. Choice 38, Special Issue:138. 2001
- Cultural Anthropology.
PowerPoint Presentation. Harcourt Publishers. 2001.
- Comoros. Encyclopedia
Britannica. With Harriet Ottenheimer. 2000.
- Anthropology. PowerPoint
Presentation. Harcourt Publishers. 1999.
- Review of Access to origins: affines, ancestors, and aristocrats by Mary W. Helms. Choice
35:5758, 1999.
- Cultural Anthropology.
PowerPoint Presentation. Harcourt Publishers. 1998.
- Review of Perspectives on the
family in Spain,
past and present by Davis S. Reher. Choice
35(6):3396, 1998.
- The Comoro Islands.
In The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa.
With Harriet Ottenheimer. Charles Scribner's
Sons. 1997.
- Comoro. In The
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Cambridge U. Press. 1997.
- Review of Human Families by Stevan Harrell. Choice 34(11/12). 1997
- Forbidden
Relatives. University
of Illinois Press.
1996.
- Why is there no kinship,
Daddy? Human Mosaic 28(2):65-72, 1995.
- Review of Nuptiality
in sub-saharan Africa
edited by Caroline Bledsoe and Gilles Pison. Choice32(8):GN645, 1995.
- Historical Dictionary of
the Comoro Islands. Metuchen: Scarecrow
Press. With Harriet Ottenheimer, 1994.
- Marriage in Domoni. Salem:
Sheffield Publishing Co. 1994 (Orig. 1985).
- Social Organization and Trade
in the Indian Ocean. Zeitschrift
für Ethnologie 199(1):125-134,
1993.
- Review of Paradox of Plenty:
a Social History of Eating in Modern America by Harvey Levenstein. Choice:415,
1993.
- Modeling Systems of
Kinship 3.0 (Computer Program in QuickBASIC
with documentation). Dubuque:
Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1992.
- Review of The
Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret
Mead and Reo Fortune by Nancy McDowell. Choice:433,
1992.
- Music of the Comoro Islands - Domoni
(Original Record, Folkways 1982).With Harriet Ottenheimer.
Now available on CD: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings FE4243.
- Lewis Henry Morgan and the
Prohibition of Cousin Marriage in the United States. Journal of
Family History 15(3):325-334, 1990.
- Review of Firewalking
and Religious Healing: the Anastenaria of Greece
and the American firewalking movement. Choice:373, 1990.
- Review of Kinship, Honour and Solidarity: Cousin Marriage in the Middle East by Ladislav
Holy. Choice:414, 1989.
- Review of Marriage and
Inequality in Classless Societies by Jane Fishburne
Collier. Choice:358, 1989.
- Modeling Systems of Kinship
and Marriage. Academic Computing 2:30-47, 1988.
- Modeling Systems of
Kinship 2.0. (Electronic Journal publication of new revised version of
Computer Program in BASIC with documentation) World Cultures: Journal of
Comparative and Cross Cultural Research 4, No. 1, 1988.
- Review of Polynesian
Seafaring and Navigation: Ocean Travel in Anutan
Culture and Society by Richard Feinberg. Choice:356,
1988.
- Review of Ulysses' Sail: an
Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance by
Mary W. Helms. Choice:452, 1988.
- Review of Gender and Kinship
by Jane Fishburne Collier and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Choice:378,
1988.
- Review of Lewis Henry Morgan
and the Invention of Kinship by Thomas R. Trautmann.
Choice:396, 1988.
- Review of The
Last Navigator by Stephen Thomas. Choice:457,
1987.
- Review of Shared Wealth and
Symbol: Food, Culture, and Society in Oceania and Southeast
Asia ed. by Lenore Manderson. Choice:392, 1987.
- Review of Maritime
Archaeology in Australia
by Graeme Henderson, 1987. Choice:375,
1987.
- The Structures of Parallel
Cousin Marriage. American Anthropologist 88:934-939, 1986.
- Modeling Systems of Kinship
(Program in Microsoft BASIC). Raleigh:
National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse, 1986.
- The Use of Comorian
Documents. History in Africa
12:349-355, 1985.
- Reply to "a further note... ." American Ethnologist 12:546-547,
1985.
- On the World of Kinship. Computer
Assisted Anthropological News 2:8, 1985.
- Marriage in Domoni. Prospect
Heights: Waveland
Press, 1985.
- Some Problems and Prospects
in Residence and Marriage. American Anthropologist 86:351-358,
1984.
- Computers and Kansas Wildlife
Damage Control. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Wildlife Damage Control
Conference 30-33, 1984.
- Review of A
Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka
by Bruce Kapferer. Choice:396, 1984.
- Comment on Scheffler's "Theory and Method in Social
Anthropology." American Ethnologist 10:174, 1983.
- Review of The
Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage and Ritual in a Bengali Society by Lina Franzetti. Choice:432, 1983.
- Review of The Fixed and the
Fickle: Religion and Identity in New Zealand by Hans Mol. Choice:222, 1983.
- The Collection from the Comoro Islands. Resound, Quarterly of
the Archives of Traditional Music 1:1-2, with Harriet Ottenheimer, 1982.
- Music of the Comoro Islands - Domoni.
Folkways Records FE4243, with Harriet Ottenheimer,
1982.
- Review of Choice and
Constraint in a Swahili Community by Ann Patricia Caplan.
Journal of Asian and African Studies 14:167-169. With Harriet Ottenheimer, 1980.
- Comment on Anthropologists
Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppostions.
Current Anthropology 21(2):165-179, 1980.
- Marriage in the Comoro Islands. Africa
49:182-184, with Harriet Ottenheimer, 1979.
- Matrilocal
Residence and Nonsororal Polygyny:
a Case from the Comoro
Islands. Journal
of Anthropological Research 35:328-335, with Harriet Ottenheimer, 1979.
- A Comment on Raoul Makarius' Ancient
Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After. Current
Anthropology 18:720-721, 1977.
- A Note on the Comoro Islands and East African Coastal
History. Folia Orientalia 18:237-245,
1977.
- The Classification of the
Languages of the Comoro
Islands. Anthropological
Linguistics December:408-415, with Harriet Ottenheimer, 1977.
- Review of The Sacred Meadows:
a Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African
Town by Abdul Hamid M. el Zein. Journal
of Asian and African Studies 12:288-289. With Harriet Ottenheimer, 1977.
- Multiethnicity
and Trade in the Western Indian Ocean
Area. In W. Arens (ed.), A
Century of Change in Eastern Africa.
The World Anthropology Series. Sol Tax (series ed.), The Hague: Mouton, 1976.
- An Introduction to a
Mathematical Approach to the Study of Kinship. In P. Ballonoff
(ed.), Genealogical Mathematics. Paris: Mouton, with Richard S. Greechie, 1975.
- On the Mathematical
Organization of Social Relationships: Kinship Terminology. K.S.U.
Mathematics Technical Report #30, with Richard S. Greechie,
1972.
- The Witch in the Web: a
Structural Analysis of Ashanti
Witchcraft. Mosaic 1:39-44, 1966.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS:
Pirates and Mormons in the Comoro Islands.
Manuscript
Relativity and Culture: The Basics of Human Behavior. Manuscript
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