Publications
These publications are arranged chronologically, and include peer-reviewed pieces as well as short notes, opinion pieces, conference papers and so forth.
ACADEMIC WORK
2011
2010
Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, and immersion and knowledge production in massively multiplayer online games. 2010. Anthropological Quarterly 83(1):17-45 PDF (the publisher forgot to ask me to sign a CTA so I am able to present a post print of this piece here)
2008
Hacker Practice: Moral Genres And The Cultural Articulation of Liberalism 2008. Anthropological Theory 8(3):233-254 (with E. Gabriella Coleman)
“Just Like The Qing Empire”: Internet Addiction, MMOGs, and Moral Crisis in Contemporary China. 2008. Games and Culture 3(1):59-75 (with Kate Lingley)
Three Years of Savage Minds: From Blog to Scholarly Civil Society 2008. Anthropology News 49:22 (with Chris Kelty and Kerim Friedman)
2007
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
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. PDF
2006
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
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
AnthroSource: Actually Useful? A prize-winning (ok, it was the second place prize) essay on AnthroSource. PDF | HTML
2005
Copyright and Taboo This is a short article that appeared in Anthropological Quarterly 77(3): 521-530 in 2005. 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
POPULAR WRITING
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
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