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PUBLICATIONS

2007 Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press
2005 And The Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among The Makassar. University of Hawaii Press
1986 Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society among the Buid of Mindoro. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 58 London: The Athlone Press

MONOGRAPHS IN PREPARATION
 
  Ritual and Self Knowledge in Southeast Asia. Manuscript completed.
 

War and Peace in Southeast Asia.   Manuscript completed. 

 

Narratives of Authority and Rebellion: Makassar Texts, Translations and Commentaries.  In progress.


SELECTED ARTICLES
 
2005 “From humility to lordship in Island Southeast Asia.”  In (eds) Thomas Widlok and Wolde Gossa Tadesse Property and Equality Volume II: Encapsulation, Commercialisation, Discrimination.  New York:  Berghahn Books.
2000 “Islam and the spirit cults in New Order Indonesia:  global flows vs. local knowledge.” Indonesia 69: 41-70.
1995 “Having your house and eating it:  houses and siblings in Ara, South Sulawesi.”  In (eds) Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh-Jones  About the House:  Buildings, Groups, and Categories in Holistic Perspective.  Essays on an idea by C. Lévi-Strauss.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
1994 “Childhood, colonialism and fieldwork among the Buid of the Philippines and the Konjo of Indonesia.” In (eds) Jeannine Koubi and Josiane Massard, Enfants et sociétés d’Asie du Sud-Est.  Paris:  L’Harmattan.
1994 “Ritual and revolution:  contesting the state in central Indonesia.”  In Social Analysis 35: 61-83.
1994 “Concluding reflections on units of analysis in the study of the official and the popular.”  In Social Analysis 35: 157-164.
1990 “Raiding, trading and tribal autonomy in insular Southeast Asia.”  In The Anthropology of War (ed) Jonathan Haas.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.
1989 “Collective ritual as a model for corporate economic activity among the Buid of Mindoro.”  In Changing Lives, Changing Rites:  Ritual and Social Dynamics in Philippine and Indonesian Uplands (eds) Susan D. Russell and Clark E. Cunningham. Michigan Studies of South and Southeast Asia, No. 1.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.
1989 “Symbolic representations of tranquility and aggression among the Buid.”  In Societies at Peace (eds) Roy Willis and Signe Howell.  London: Routledge.
1988 “Meat sharing as political ritual:  forms of transaction vs modes of subsistence.”  In Hunters and Gatherers, Vol. II:  Property, Power and Ideology (eds) T. Ingold, D. Riches and J. Woodburn.  London:  Berg Publishers.
1985 “The sharing of substance versus the sharing of activity among the Buid.”  Man 20 (3):  391-411.
 
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