Circumcision and Masculinity:
Motherly Men or Brutal Patriarchs?
In Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity
H. Brod and S. Zevit, eds. The Men's Studies Press. In press.
Mysteries Dark and Vast:
Grateful Dead Concerts and the Initiation into the Sublime.
In The Grateful Dead in Concert: Essays on Live Improvisation.
S. Spector and J. Tuedio, eds. McFarland Publishing. In press
Moderate Expectations and Benign Exploitation:
Tourism in Papua New Guinea.
In Tourism at the Grass Roots: Villagers and Visitors in the Asia Pacific. 2008.
John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke, eds. pp. 58-76. London: Routledge.
Sepik River Selves in a Changing Modernity:
From Sahlins to Psychodynamics.
In The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia:
Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change. 2005.
J. Robbins and H. Wardlow, eds. pp. 85-101. Burlington: Ashgate.
Cannibalizing, Commodifying, and Creating Culture:
Power and Creativity in Sepik River Tourism.
In Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. 2004.
V. Lockwood, ed. pp. 339-57. New York: Prentice-Hall.
(click here to download the essay)
Iatmul.
In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. 2004.
C.R. Ember and M. Ember, eds. Pp. 487-97. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
The Cut of Wholeness:
Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Biblical Circumcision.
In The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite. 2003.
E.W. Mark, ed. pp. 43-57. University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press.
From Totemic Space to Cyberspace:
Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian Myth, Knowledge and Art.
In Emplaced Myth:
Space, Narrative and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea Societies. 2001.
J. Weiner and A. Rumsey, eds. pp. 189-214. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Art, Tourism and the Crafting of Identity in the Sepik River (Papua New Guinea).
In Unpacking Culture:
Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, 1999.
R. Phillips and C. Steiner, eds. pp. 51-66. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Indigenous Mapping in Papua New Guinea.
In The History of Cartography, Vol. 2, Book 3:
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. 1998.
D. Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, eds. pp. 423-42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(The book received the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize for 1999)
Clifford Geertz:
Towards A More A "Thick" Understanding?
In Reading Material Culture:
Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post‑Structuralism. 1990.
C. Tilley, ed. pp. 121‑59. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Miscellaneous Academic Publications
Circumcision, Male.
In The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. 2009.
R.A. Shweder, et al., eds., pp. 168-71. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Anthropology of Time.
In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2001.
N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. pp. 15683--86. Oxford: Pergamon.
Symbolism: Cosmic.
In The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Vol. 1. 1997.
P. Oliver, ed. pp. 586-87. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Body Arts ‑ Melanesia.
In The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 23. 1996.
J.S. Turner, ed., pp. 721-22. London: MacMillan.
The Art of Papua New Guinea:
Cultural Traditions of the Sepik River.
Exhibition Catalog with essay. 1988.
University Gallery, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville.
