Publications

* Seafaring and Navigation, 4000-1000 BCE. Pp. 370-371 in McGeough, Kevin M. (ed), World History Encyclopedia, ERA 2: Early Civilizations, 4000-1000 BCE. eBookCollection:ABC-CLIO, 2011.
* Complementarity in a Western Indian Ocean Community. Paper presented at the Anthropologie Comparative des Societies Insulaires de l'Ocean Indian Occidental: Terrains et Theories meetings. Paris, April, 2011. (http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~omar/Paris%20Paper%20Revised.html)
* Relativity and Culture. (http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~omar/Chapter%201.html)
* 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 Central States Anthropological Society meetings. Minneapolis, April, 2007.
* Comoro Islands. Pp. 487-93 in New Encyclopedia of Africa. Charles Scribner's Sons. 2007. With Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer.
* 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. Manuscript