2021 “My Ancestors’ Keys: In Search of the Jews of Cuba,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, February 21, 2021.
2015 “Read More, Write Less,” Savage Minds, February 2, 2015.
2015 “Goodbye Comadre,” Savage Minds, January 26, 2015.
2012 “What Renato Rosaldo Gave Us,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 37:1: 205-211.
2011 “The Death of the Angel: Reflections on the Relationship between Enlightenment and Enchantment in the Twenty-first Century,” Temenos 47:1: 77-96.
2011 “Folklore and the Search for Home,” in Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race and Identity, Knowledge, edited by Debra Journet, Beth A. Boehm, and Cynthia E. Britt, New York: Hampton Press: 207-222.
2009 “Believing in Anthropology as Literature,” in Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing, edited by Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi. West Sussez: Wiley-Blackwell: 106-116.
2003 “The Anthropologist’s Son,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 55 (13) 2008: B99.
2003 “Ethnography and the book that was lost,” Ethnography, vol 4(1) 2003: 15-39.
2003 “Everything I Kept: Reflections of an Anthropoeta,” in Women Writing and Resistance in Latin America, edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez (Cambridge: South End Press, 2003): 47-58.
2002 “While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Afterthoughts about Adio Kerida,” Michigan Quarterly Review, vol 41 (4), Fall: 651-667. Reprinted in The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, edited by Kristin Ruggiero, Sussex Academic Press, 2005, and Memory and Oblivion:Modern Jewish Culture in Latin America, edited by Marjorie Agosin, University of Texas Press, 2005.
2001 “Yellow marigolds for Ochún: An experiment in feminist ethnographic fiction,” Qualitative Studies in Education 14 (2): 107-116.
2001 “Anthropology’s Epiphanies: Some Things I Learned From James Fernandez,” Anthropology and Humanism 25 (2): 1-6.
2000 “Post-Utopia: The Erotics of Power and Cuba’s Revolutionary Children,” in Cuba, the Elusive Nation: Interpretations of National Identity, edited by Damián J. Fernandez and Madeline Cámara Betancourt (Gainesville: University Press of Florida): 134-154.
2000 “Honeymoon Nightgowns That A Black Woman Saved for a White Woman: A Perilous Journey into the Cuban Historical Imagination,” American Studies 41:2/3 (Summer/Fall 2000): 287-302.
1999 “Ethnography: Cherishing Our Second-Fiddle Genre,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, special issue on “Ethnography: Reflections at the Century’s Turn,” vol. 28, no. 5 (October, 1999): 472-484.
1997 “A Woman’s Body is Her Country: Cuba, Art Review,” in ii: The Journal of the International Institute. Winter 1998, pp. 6-7. (Reprinted from bilingual English/Spanish essay featured in artist catalogue prepared for exhibition of “Little Pieces of Me For Sale: Cuban Geishas/Mis Pedacitos en Venta: Geishas Desde Cuba,” October 20-28, 1997).
1995 “In Dialogue: The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey,” Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 118-121.
1993 “Expanding the Boundaries of Anthropology: The Cultural Criticism of Gloria Anzaldúa and Marlon Riggs,” Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Fall: 83-91.
1992 “A Life Story to Take Across the Border: Notes on an Exchange,” in George Rosenwald and Richard Ochberg, eds., Storied Lives:Cultural Conditions of Self-Understanding (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press): 108-123.
1990 “The Struggle for the Church: Popular Anticlericalism and Religiosity in Post-Franco Spain,” in Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society edited by Ellen Badone. (Princeton: Princeton University Press): 76-112.
1989 “Photographing Mexican Women,” Michigan Feminist Studies, no. 4, fall: 38-59.
1989 “Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women’s Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition,” in Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Spanish America, edited by Asunción Lavrin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Latin American Studies Series): 178-206.
1987 “Sex and Sin, Witchcraft and the Devil in Late-Colonial Mexico.” American Ethnologist, special issue, Frontiers of Christian Evangelism, edited by Jane Schneider and Shirley Lindenbaum, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 34-54.
1987 “The Visions of a Guachichil Witch in 1599: A Window on the Subjugation of Mexico’s Hunter-Gatherers” Ethnohistory, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 115-138.
1985 “Past and Present in the Spanish Countryside.” Natural History, November, pp. 68-75. (Received the 1986 Award for Best Geographic Education from the National Council for Geographic Education.)