Things I’ve Written

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.
“PDF”:http://epress.anu.edu.au/apem/customary/pdf/ch05.pdf | “Read the entire edited volume”:http://epress.anu.edu.au/customary_citation.html

*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.
PDF

*With a Business Model Like This, Who Needs Enemies?*
From “Anthropology News 48(4):6-7. 2007.”:http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2007.48.4.6
“PDF”:http://alex.golub.name/res/writing/Golub2007b.pdf

*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.
“PDF”:http://alex.golub.name/res/writing/Golub2006a.pdf

*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.
“precis”:http://alex.golub.name/diss/golub_diss_precis.pdf

*AnthroSource: Actually Useful?*
A prize-winning (ok, it was the second place prize) essay on AnthroSource.
“PDF”:http://alex.golub.name/res/writing/Golub2005.pdf | “HTML”:http://savageminds.org/2005/05/24/anthrosource-actually-useful/

*Copyright and Taboo*
This is a short article that appeared in _Anthropological Quarterly 77(3): 521-530_ in 2005.
“PDF”:http://alex.golub.name/res/golub2004.pdf

*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.
“PDF”:http://alex.golub.name/res/shootingsnowy.pdf

.: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.
“HTML”:http://www.gapersblock.com/detour/an_interview_with_bcm_international/index.php

*Andrew Huff and the Pool of Lost Souls*
This is my first (self) published novel. I wrote it _before_ Whalerider came out.
“HTML”:http://alex.golub.name/ahatpols/ | “Paper”:http://www.lulu.com/content/128306.

*Inside Higher Ed Pieces*
I write ‘viewpoint’ pieces for Inside Higher Ed. Here are some samples:
“Jewish in Polynesia”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/04/17/golub
“Passion for Paper”:http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/05/09/golub
“The Professor as Personal Trainer”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/10/24/golub