Publications

2017 “Constituting Common Futures:  Decolonization in Fiji and Singapore” (co-author John D. Kelly)   Bearing Witness:  Festschrift for Brij V. Lal,  Jack Corbett and  Doug Munro, eds.  Australian National University E-Press Pacific Editorial Board series.    Pp. 153-176

2016 “Nation and Conservation: Postcolonial Water Narratives in Singapore Rituals” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS)  December 2016 Vol 89 Part 2, Number 311, Pp. 125-138

2016  Ethnographic Notes on the Funeral Rituals for Lee Kuan Yew. Edited Special Section of Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society a Southeast Asian Studies multidisciplinary journal published by National University of Singapore Press.  JMBRAS, Vol 89 Part 1, Number 310, pp. 81-153 (June 2016).  Co-editors J. Bernard Bate and John D. Kelly

2016 “From Big Data to Thick Data: the value of ethnographic research to urban practitioners” Centre for Livable Cities Insights 15: 1-6 (May 2016)

2016 “From Jew to Roman: Mr. Joske, Mr. Brewster, The Hill Tribes of Fiji, and the Hill Tribes of Fiji”  A Practice of Anthropology :  The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins.  Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt eds., McGill University Press. Pp. 97-122

2013 “Postcolonial theory” In R. McGee, & R. Warms (eds.), Theory in social and cultural anthropology: An encyclopedia. Vol. 16, pp. 636-640. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.  <http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452276311.n209>

2013 “Editor’s Preface:  An Introduction to Honor and Honors in Great Britain and India by Bernard S. Cohn” co-authors John D. Kelly and Sean Dowdy.  Hau, A Journal of Ethnographic Theory  3 (3) 449-55 <http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/current>

2012 “Comment on John Wagner’s  ‘Water and the Commons Imaginary’” Current Anthropology 53 (5) 633-34

2011  “Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers:  Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use” Cultural Anthropology 26 (4) 514-541

2011  “Alienation and Appropriation:  Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance” in Elfriede Hermann, ed.  Changing Contexts –Shifting Meanings:  Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press.  Pp. 221-234

2010   “Local Politics and a Global Commodity:  Fijian Water in Fiji and New York” Cultural Anthropology 22 (4) reissued in a virtual issue of CA on the anthropology of water, including author-interviews  <http://culanth.org/?q=node/360>

2008 “Legal Fictions After Empire” co-author John D. Kelly. In Douglas Howland and Luise White, eds. The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. Pp. 252-289. Indiana University Press

2007 “Local Politics and a Global Commodity:  Fijian Water in Fiji and New York” Cultural Anthropology 22 (4)  685-706 <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2007.22.4.685/abstract>

2007   “Fiji” in Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective. Volume 3 (1945–1989) 1313-1325 ABC-CLIO

2006 “Diaspora and Swaraj, Swaraj and Diaspora” co-author John Kelly,  in From the Colonial to the Postcolonial edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori,  Oxford University Press pp 311-331.

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2005   Outside Gods and Foreign Powers:  Making Local History with Global Means in the               Pacific.  Ethnohistory  special issue 52:1(2005).

2005  “Cargo Cults (Further Considerations)” in Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition             Detroit:  Macmillan Reference USA pp1421-1425.

2005 “The Hau of Other Peoples’ Gifts”  in Ethnohistory 52:1: 29-46

2004  “Neither Traditional Nor Foreign:  Dialogics of protest and agency in Fijian History” In Cargo Cult and Culture Critique  Holger Jebens, Ton Otto, Karl Heinz Kohl eds..  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press pp 59-79.

2004 “Promised Lands: From Colonial Law-giving to Postcolonial Takeovers in Fiji” In Law and Empire in the Pacific:  Fiji and Hawaii  Sally Engle Merry and Don Brenneis, eds.  Santa Fe:  School of American Research pp 153-186.

2004 “Fiji’s Coups:  The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics” In Pacific Islands Societies in a Global World Victoria Lockwood, ed.  NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall pp.72-85

2004 “My ambition is much higher than independence”: US Power, the UN World, the Nation-State, and Their Critics” Co-author John D. Kelly.  In Prasenjit Duara, ed.  Decolonization:  Perspectives from Now and Then, Routledge.  pp131-151

2003 “The Magical Power of the (Printed) Word in Fiji” in Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer, eds. Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment.  Stanford University Press pp. 183-199

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2001 Represented Communities:  Fiji and World Decolonization.  Co-author John D. Kelly. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press

2001 “Nation and Decolonization:  Towards a New Anthropology of Nationalism.” Co-author John D. Kelly. Anthropological Theory 1(4) 419-437

2001  “Peace in Fiji” Co-author John D. Kelly.  In Brij V. Lal with Michael Pretes, ed. Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. Canberra:  ANU/Pandanus Books

1999 “On Discourse and Power:  “Cults” and “Orientals” in Colonial Fiji.”  Co-author John D. Kelly. American Ethnologist 26 (4)                  843-863

1999 “Race and Rights in Fiji” Co-author John D. Kelly  in The Global Color Line, pp 237-257. Pinar Batur-VanderLippe and Joe Feagin, eds. Stamford, CT:  JAI Press

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1995  Neither Cargo nor Cult:  Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press Kaplan Website NCNC 2 chapters – OCR

1998 “When 8,870-850=1: Discourses against Democracy in Fiji Past and Present” in Dru Gladney, ed. Making Majorities. Stanford, CA:  Stanford University Press

1995  “Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak:  Ritual-Politics and the Nation in Post-Colonial Fiji” in Robert J. Foster, ed., Nation Making in Postcolonial Melanesia. Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press pp 95-125

1995  “Panopticon in Poona: an essay on Foucault and Colonialism”  Cultural Anthropology 10 (1) 85-98

1994 “Rethinking Resistance:  Dialogics of Disaffection in Colonial Fiji” Co-author John D. Kelly  American Ethnologist 21 (1) 123-151

1993 “Battlements, Temples, and the Landscape of Tuka: The Archaeological Record of a Cultural Transformation in 19th Century Fiji”  Co-author Mara Rosenthal Journal of the Polynesian Society 102 (2) 121-145

1992      “Imagining a Nation:  Race, Politics and Crisis in Post-Colonial Fiji” In Contemporary Pacific Society: Studies in Development and Change, Thomas Harding, Ben Wallace and Victoria Lockwood, eds.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall

1990 “Meaning, Agency and Colonial History:  Navosavakadua and the Tuka Movement in Fiji.” American Ethnologist 17 (1) 3-22

1990 “History, Structure and Ritual” Co-author John D. Kelly Annual  Review of Anthropology 19  119-50

1990      “Christianity, People of the Land, and Chiefs, in Fiji” In Christianity in Oceania, John Barker, ed. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph XII 189-207.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America

1989  “The ‘Dangerous and Disaffected Native’ in Fiji:  British Colonial Constructions of the Tuka Movement”  Social Analysis 26 20-43

1989  “Luveniwai as the British Saw It:  Constructions of Custom and Disorder in Colonial Fiji”  Ethnohistory 36 (4) 349-371

1988  “The Coups in Fiji:  Colonial Contradictions and the Post-Colonial Crisis” Critique of Anthropology 8 (3) 93-116

1988  Land and Sea and the  New White Men:  A Reconsideration of the Fijian Tuka Movement Ph.D. Dissertation, Anthropology, University of Chicago

1981 “The Meanings of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii, 1830-1849” M.A. Thesis, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Book Reviews:

2009 Review of State of Suffering:  Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji.by Susanna Trnka. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32 (2) 352-353

2006  Review of Bittersweet  by Brij V. Lal, ed.,  Journal of the Polynesian Society

2004  Review of Houses Far From Home:  British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides by Margaret Rodman.  Journal of Pacific Studies  27(1) 109-111

2004  Review of  Anthropology Beyond Culture edited by Richard G. Fox and Barbara J. King.  Journal of Anthropological Research 60: 266-68

2003  Review of Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific edited by David Hanlon and Geoffrey White.  American Anthropologist,  105 (4): 870-871

2001 Review of Fiji Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development edited by  Brij V Lal. Journal of the Polynesian Society110 (4) 418-420

2001      Review of Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in the Pacific edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram.  Ethnos 66(2)74-76.

1997  Review of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji by Anne E. Becker. American Ethnologist 24 (2) 501-502.

1994  Review of Kava:  The Pacific Drug by Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin & Lamont Lindstrom, and of The Abandoned Narcotic:  Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia by Ron Brunton. Economic Botany 48 (2) 227-228

1994  Review of Clio in Oceania:  Toward a Historical Anthropology edited by Aletta Biersack.  American Ethnologist 21 (4) 1015-1016

1994  Review of Fiji:  Race and Politics in an Island Stateby Michael Howard.  American Ethnologist21 (4) 1032-1033

1993  Review of Entangled Objects by Nicholas Thomas.  The Contemporary Pacific 5 (2) 452-454

1992  Review of Making Sense of Hierarchy:  Cognition as Social Process in Fiji by Christina Toren.  American Anthropologist  94 (2) 495-6

1992 Review of Culture and History in the Pacific edited by Jukka Siikala.  Man (n.s.) 227 (3) 685

1991 Review of The Ambiguity of Rapprochement:  Reflections of Anthropologists on their Controversial Relationship with Missionaries edited by Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks, and Jelle Miedema American Anthropologist 93 (3) 716