An ancestral effigy in an “Yi” (or Lòlop’o) home
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
2017. Songs for Dead Parents: Body and World in Southwest China. University of Chicago Press.
2011. The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet. University of California Press.
2001. The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China. University of California Press.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2016. “The Song of the Ghost in its Bamboo Cradle.” In Oliver Tappe, Andrea Hollington, Sinah Kloß, Tijo Salverda, and Nina Schneider, eds. Global Modernities and the (Re)-emergence of Ghosts, a special issue of Voices from Around the World. 2016(2).
2015. “Adventurers: Race, Love, and the ‘Transmutation of Souls’ in the Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Gansu, 1924-27,” in Erin Hasinoff and Joshua Bell, eds., The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives. University of Chicago Press.
2014. “‘Cats give Funerals to Rats’: Making the Dead Modern with Lament in Southwest China.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20:197-217.
2014. “Corpse, Stone, Door, Text.” Journal of Asian Studies 73(1):17-41.
2011. “Bodies Real and Virtual: Joseph Rock and Enrico Caruso in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 53(1): 6-37.
2011. “The Eyes of Others: Race, ‘Gaping,’ and Companionship in the Scientific Exploration of Southwest China,” in Denise Glover, Stevan Harrell and Charles McKhann, eds., Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands, 1880-1950. University of Washington Press.
2009 “George Forrest’s Rhododendron Paradise,” in Elizabeth Ferry and Madonna Limbert, eds., Timely Assets: The Politics and Temporalities of Resources. School of Advanced Research Press.
2006. “Spectral Chains: Remembering the Great Leap Famine in an Yi Community” in Ching-Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang, eds., Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Stanford University Press.
2005. “Reading, Glaciers, and Love in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China and Tibet.” Michigan Quarterly Review, 44(4): 722-753.
2005. “The Lapponicum Sea: Matter, Sense and Affect in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China and Tibet.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 47(3):442-479.
2002. “Dancing Fools: Politics of Culture and Place in a ‘Traditional Nationality Festival.’” Modern China 28(1).
1999. “Spectral Subversions: Rival Tactics of Time and Agency in China.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41(3): 458-81.
1998. “The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China.” Journal of Asian Studies 57(4): 979-1008.
1998. “A Carceral Regime: Violence and Social Memory in Southwest China.” Cultural Anthropology 13(2): 167-92.
1998. “Procreative Metaphor and Productive Unity in an Yi Headmanship.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(2): 61-78.
1991. “Money, the Mountain and State Power in a Naxi Village.” Modern China 17(2): 188-226.
