From Symbolism to Structuralism: Lévi-Strauss in a Literary Tradition
The Anthropological Romance of Bali: 1597-1972: Dynamic Perspectives in Marriage, Caste, Politics, and Religion
Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts
Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-European Allure
Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts... Showbiz
The Cross-Cultural Kiss: Edwardian and Earlier, Postmodern and Beyond
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1995 "Panofsky and Lévi-Strauss (and Iconographers and Mythologiques) Re-regarded." In Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views from the Outside. I. Lavin, ed. Princeton University Press.
1998 “Accenting Hybridity: Postcolonial Cultural Theory, A Boasian Anthropologist, and I." In Culture and the Problem of the Disciplines. John Rowe, ed. New York: Columbia University Press.
1998 "The Cross-cultural Kiss: Edwardian and Earlier, Postmodern and Beyond." David Skomp Distinguished Lectures in Anthropology. Indiana University.
2000 “Showbiz as a Cross-Cultural System: Circus and Song, Garland and Geertz, Rushdie, Mordden ... and More." Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 424-56
2001 “Kenneth Burke's 'True Irony': One Model for Ethnography, Still." In Irony in Action. J. Fernandez and M. Huber, eds. University of Chicago Press.
2002 “Subtly Showy Lowie, or Anthropology’s Ancestors may be Trickier than We Think (even Frazer).” Franz Boas Lecture Series. Columbia University. Department of Anthropology.
2002 “Inter-sensory Travel-Writing as Scientific Dandyism: Select Episodes.” Paper for Conference, “The Science (and Art) of Travel Writing, 1750-1850.” Internationales Forschungscentrum Kulturwissenschaften. University of Vienna.
2004 “Claude Lévi-Strauss.” In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Second Edition. M. Groden and M. Kreiswirth, eds. Johns Hopkins Press.
2004 “Anthropology, Ethnology, and Religion.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition. Macmillan Press.
2005 “Geertz’s Style: A Moral Matter.” In Clifford Geertz by his Colleagues. R. Shweder and B. Good, eds. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
2005 “Its All Fijian to Me” (Review Essay of Marshall Sahlins, Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa). Anthropology and Humanism, Fall.
2005 “Can Music Compare (et traduire)?: Weberian Affinities (and Hunches).” Paper for Colloquium on Weber et La Musique, IRCAM, Paris.
2007 “Also 100 Years Since Weber Flirted with Ethnography.” In Max Weber’s “Objectivity” Reconsidered. Laurence Mcfalls, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2007 “The Birth of Anthropology out of a Pause on Pausanias: Frazer’s Travel-Translations Re-interrupted and Resumed.” In Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology. G. Marcus and N. Panourgia, eds. Fordham University Press (in press).
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The Anthropological Romance of Bali: 1597-1972: Dynamic Perspectives in Marriage, Caste, Politics, and Religion
Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts
Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-European Allure
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