Misty forest landscape at dawn with dense trees and rolling fog, all tinted in a blue hue, where dancing cats move gracefully among the shadows, creating a serene and mysterious atmosphere.

misc.

afterwords

The role of law in corporate accountability. Special issue on Corporate responsibility, edited by Julia Eckert and Laura Knöpfel. Journal of Legal Anthropology 4 (2): 100–109, 2020. 

Afterword. Special issue on Multidisciplinary perspectives on the adjudication of indigenous rights, edited by Kristen Henard and Jérémie Gilbert. Erasmus Law Review 11 (1): 86–87, 2018.

Extractive conflicts compared. In Social conflict, economic development and extractive industry: Evidence from South America, edited by Anthony Bebbington, 201–213. New York: Routledge, 2012.  

comments

Comment on Catherine Coumans, Occupying spaces created by conflict. Current Anthropology 52 (S3): S40–S41, 2011.

Comment on Paige West, Tourism as science and science as tourism. Current Anthropology 49 (4): 614–615, 2008.

editorials

Don’t worry if you fail to save the world on your first go. Anthropology Today 36 (4): 1–2, 2020. 

Running out? Rethinking resource depletion. The Extractive Industries and Society 7: 838–840, 2020.  

Sustainability and the BP Oil Spill. Dialectical Anthropology 34 (3): 295–300, 2010.

Moral dilemmas and ethical controversies. [re: Jared Diamond’s controversial New Yorker essay on vengeance]. Anthropology Today 25 (6): 1–2, 2009.

Americans, New Guineans, et al. share the effect of El Niño. With John Burke Burnett. The Christian Science Monitor, October 29, pg. 19, 1997.

Anthropologists and global alliances. Anthropology Today 12 (4): 14–16, 1996.

Ok Tedi River a sewer. Times of Papua New Guinea, 1–7 June, 491: 3, 1986.

encyclopedia articles

Corporate oxymorons. With Angela Lindt. In The encyclopedia for corporate communication, edited by Klement Podnar, 230–235. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2024.

The capitalist corporation. With Peter Benson. The international encyclopedia of anthropology. General editor, Hilary Callan; Section editor, economic anthropology, Chris Hann. 9 pgs. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.

Mining. With Jessica M. Smith. The international encyclopedia of anthropology. General editor, Hilary Callan; Section editor, economic anthropology, Chris Hann. 4 pgs. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.

review essays

Review exchange with Fabiani Li (author of Unearthing conflict, 2015): Journal of Cultural Economy 9 (4): 433–443, 2016. 

Reverse anthropology redux. Book review forum. Pacific Studies 33 (1): 84–102, 2010.

Like smoke from the pines. Review of Social organization and cultural aesthetics: Essays in honor of William H. Davenport (University Press, 1997), edited by William Donner and James Flanagan. Pacific Studies 24 (1/2): 123–128, 2001.

Cannibal tales. Review of Lords of the garden, produced by Judith Hallet (Arts & Entertainment Television Networks, 1994). Pacific Studies 20 (2): 170–179, 1997.

reviews

The small matter of suing chevron. Suzana Sawyer. (Duke University Press, 2022). American Ethnologist 50 (4): 670–671, 2023.

Life in oil: Cofán survival in the petroleum fields of Amazonia. Michael Cepek.(University of Texas Press, 2018). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25: 186–187, 2019.

Becoming landowners: Entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Victoria C. Stead. (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017). Anthropological Forum 27 (3): 291–293, 2017.

Exchanging skin: Anthropological knowledge, secrecy in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea. Tony Crook. (Oxford University Press, 2008). American Ethnologist 36 (4): 825–826, 2009.

The Navajo people and uranium mining, edited by Doug Brugge et al. (University of New Mexico Press, 2006). Technology and Culture 49 (1): 247–249, 2008.

etc.

Angels in West Papua. In Memoriam Donatus Moiwend. With Mike Cookson and Jason Macleod. Pacific Arts 21 (2): 51–59, 2021.

Shifting perspectives: Rethinking indigenous knowledge and politics. In Unsettling discourses: The theory and practice of indigenous studies, 189–196. Cordillera Studies Center. Baguio City: University of the Philippines Press, 2014.

Waltjim bat Matilda by Ali Mills (ril Kriol)

The myths of Osiris and Kamberap in cross-cultural comparison. With Janet Richards. In Decorum and experience: Essays on ancient culture for John Baines, edited by Elizabeth Frood and Angela McDonald, 277–284. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2013.

Fieldwork on the Fly. In What anthropologists do, edited by Veronica Strang, 97–99. Oxford: Berg, 2009.

Freedom and development in Suriname. Special issue on Indigenizing development edited by Alcida Ramos, Rafael Osorio, and José Pimenta.Poverty in Focus 17: 12–13, 2009.

Return to Ok Tedi. Meanjin 55 (4): 657–666, 1996.