A view west from Reite village at sunset
Selected articles and chapters in books
‘The Self of the Scientist: Material for the Artist. Emergent Distinctions in Interdisciplinary Collaborations’ 2011. Social Analysis 55(3): 143-163. Download draft.
GDAT (Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory) 2010. 'The Task of Anthropology is to Invent Relations'. Forthcoming in CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY 32:1
Step Inside: The Politics of (making) knowledge objects, in The Politics of Knowledge (eds) Patrick Beart and Fernando Rubio, 2012 London: Routledge pp. 79-95. Download draft text
'20t has no power now'. Property, Customary Tenure and Pressure on Land near the Ramu Nickel Project Area, Madang, PNG'. Pacific Studies Special Issue: Land and Law. Edited by Susan Farran. Vol 34: 2/3. 2011 pp. 295-322 Download draft text.
'Enabling Innovation: creative investments in arts and humanities research' James Leach and Lee Wilson. 2010. Download
‘Waterfall, Movement, Life. Dyed Bark Fibre Skirts on the Rai Coast of PNG’ in Melanesia: Art and Encounter (eds) L. Bolton, N Thomas, E Bonshek and J Adams, London: British Museum Press. (In press)
'Intervening with the Social. Ethnographic practice and Tarde's image of relations between subjects', in M. Candea (ed) The Social After Gabriel Tarde London: Routledge (2010) Download draft
'Freedom Imagined. Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software Design' (with Dawn Nafus and Bernhard Krieger), in Ethnos Vol 74:1 pp51-71 (2009) Download
'Arts and owners: Intellectual property law and the politics of scale in Indonesian arts', with Lorraine V Aragon, in American Ethnologist, Vol 35/4, (2008) Download
‘An Anthropological Approach to Transactions involving Names and Marks, drawing on Melanesia’, in Trademarks and Brands, an Interdisciplinary Critique, (eds.) Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2008) Link to draft
'Creativity, Subjectivity, and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism' in Creativity and Cultural Improvisation (2007) (eds.) T. Ingold and E. Hallam, ASA Monograph 43. Oxford: Berg. Download
'Differentiation and encompassment: A critique of Alfred Gells theory of creativity' in Thinking Through Things (2007), (eds.) Ami Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell, London: Routledge. Download
'Team Spirit. The Pervasive Influence of Place Generation in 'Community Building' Activities along the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea.' Journal of Material Culture 11(1 and 2): (2006) Download
Livers and Lives: Organ extraction narratives on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea'. in Commodification. Things, Agency, and Identities (The Social Life of Things Revisited) (2005) (eds.) Peter Geschiere and Wim van Binsbergen, LIT Verlag: Munster. Dowload
'Modes of Creativity' in E. Hirsch and M. Strathern (eds) Transactions and Creations. Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia (2004), Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford Link Download
'Owning Creativity. Cultural Property and the Efficacy of Kastom on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea' Journal of Material Culture 8(2): 123-143 (2003) Download
'Drum and voice: aesthetics and social process on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 8, 713-734 (2002) Download
