Writings

Here is a sampling of things that I’ve written in the past few years:

.:Academic:.

From Agency to Agents: Forging Landowner Identities in Porgera
From Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives ed. James Weiner and Katie Glaskin. pp. 73-96. Canberra: ANU E-Press. 2007.
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Ironies of Organization: Landowners, Land Registration, and Papua New Guinea’s Mining and Petroleum Industry
From Human Organization 66(1): 38-48. 2007. These are galley proofs.
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With a Business Model Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
From Anthropology News 48(4):6-7. 2007.
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Who Is The “Original Affluent Society”? Ipili “Predatory Expansion” and the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea
From Contemporary Pacific 18(2):265-292. 2006. These are uncorrected page proofs — please purchase the journal to get the final official version.
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Making the Ipili Feasible: Imagining Global and Local Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
This is my dissertation, completed as part of the requirements for a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2005/6.
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AnthroSource: Actually Useful?
A prize-winning (ok, it was the second place prize) essay on AnthroSource.
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Copyright and Taboo
This is a short article that appeared in Anthropological Quarterly 77(3): 521-530 in 2005.
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Shooting Snowy Was The Toughest Job I Ever Had
This is a paper I gave at a conference in honor of my undergraduate advisor, Gail Kelly.
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.:Popular:.

Interview with BCM
This is a piece of music journalism that I did for the website Gapers Block, of which I am proud to say I was a founding member.
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*Inside Higher Ed Pieces*
I write ‘viewpoint’ pieces for Inside Higher Ed. Here are some samples:
Jewish in Polynesia
Passion for Paper
The Professor as Personal Trainer