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2017 “Constituting Common Futures:\u00a0 Decolonization in Fiji and Singapore”\u00a0(co-author John D. Kelly)\u00a0\u00a0 Bearing Witness:<\/em>\u00a0 Festschrift for Brij V. Lal<\/em>,\u00a0 Jack Corbett and\u00a0 Doug Munro, eds.\u00a0 Australian National University E-Press Pacific Editorial Board series.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pp. 153-176<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cNation and Conservation: Postcolonial Water Narratives in Singapore Rituals\u201d Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society <\/em>(JMBRAS<\/em>)\u00a0 December 2016 Vol 89 Part 2, Number 311, Pp. 125-138<\/p>\n

2016 \u00a0Ethnographic Notes on the Funeral Rituals for Lee Kuan Yew<\/em>. Edited Special Section of Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/em> a Southeast Asian Studies multidisciplinary journal published by National University of Singapore Press.\u00a0 JMBRAS, Vol 89 Part 1, Number 310, pp. 81-153 (June 2016).\u00a0 Co-editors J. Bernard Bate and John D. Kelly<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cFrom Big Data to Thick Data: the value of ethnographic research to urban practitioners\u201d Centre for Livable Cities Insights 15: 1-6 (May 2016)<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cFrom Jew to Roman: Mr. Joske, Mr. Brewster, The Hill Tribes of Fiji, and the Hill Tribes of Fiji\u201d \u00a0A Practice of Anthropology : \u00a0The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins.\u00a0 Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt eds., McGill University Press. Pp. 97-122<\/p>\n

2013 \u201cPostcolonial theory\u201d 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. \u00a0<http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781452276311.n209<\/a>><\/p>\n

2013 \u201cEditor\u2019s Preface: \u00a0An Introduction to Honor and Honors in Great Britain and India by Bernard S. Cohn\u201d co-authors John D. Kelly and Sean Dowdy.\u00a0 Hau, A Journal of Ethnographic Theory \u00a03 (3) 449-55 <http:\/\/www.haujournal.org\/index.php\/hau\/issue\/current<\/a>><\/p>\n

2012 \u201cComment on John Wagner\u2019s \u00a0\u2018Water and the Commons Imaginary\u2019\u201d Current Anthropology 53 (5) 633-34<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 \u201cLonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers:\u00a0 Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use\u201d Cultural Anthropology <\/em>26 (4) 514-541<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 \u201cAlienation and Appropriation:\u00a0 Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance\u201d in Elfriede Hermann, ed.\u00a0 Changing Contexts \u2013Shifting Meanings:\u00a0 Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania<\/em> Honolulu:\u00a0 University of Hawaii Press.\u00a0 Pp. 221-234<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLocal Politics and a Global Commodity:\u00a0 Fijian Water in Fiji and New York\u201d Cultural Anthropology<\/em> 22 (4) reissued in a virtual issue of CA on the anthropology of water, including author-interviews\u00a0 <http:\/\/culanth.org\/?q=node\/360><\/p>\n

2008 \u201cLegal Fictions After Empire\u201d 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<\/p>\n

2007 \u201cLocal Politics and a Global Commodity:\u00a0 Fijian Water in Fiji and New York\u201d Cultural Anthropology<\/em> 22 (4)\u00a0 685-706 <http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1525\/can.2007.22.4.685\/abstract><\/p>\n

2007\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFiji\u201d in Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective<\/em>. Volume 3 (1945\u20131989) 1313-1325 ABC-CLIO<\/p>\n

2006 \u201cDiaspora and Swaraj, Swaraj and Diaspora\u201d co-author John Kelly,\u00a0 in From the Colonial to the Postcolonial<\/em> edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori,\u00a0 Oxford University Press pp 311-331.<\/p>\n

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2005 \u00a0\u00a0Outside Gods and Foreign Powers:\u00a0 Making Local History with Global Means in the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pacific.<\/em>\u00a0 Ethnohistory \u00a0<\/em>special issue 52:1(2005).<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 \u201cCargo Cults (Further Considerations)\u201d in Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit:\u00a0 Macmillan Reference USA pp1421-1425.<\/p>\n

2005 “The Hau<\/em> of Other Peoples’ Gifts”\u00a0 in Ethnohistory<\/em> 52:1: 29-46<\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 “Neither Traditional Nor Foreign:\u00a0 Dialogics of protest and agency in Fijian History” In Cargo Cult and Culture Critique\u00a0 <\/em>Holger Jebens, Ton Otto, Karl Heinz Kohl eds.<\/em>.\u00a0 Honolulu:\u00a0 University of Hawaii Press pp 59-79.<\/p>\n

2004 \u201cPromised Lands:\u00a0From Colonial Law-giving to Postcolonial Takeovers in Fiji\u201d In Law and Empire in the Pacific:\u00a0 Fiji and Hawaii\u00a0 <\/em>Sally Engle Merry and Don Brenneis, eds.\u00a0 Santa Fe:\u00a0 School of American Research pp 153-186.<\/p>\n

2004 \u201cFiji\u2019s Coups:\u00a0 The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics\u201d In Pacific Islands Societies in a Global World <\/em>Victoria Lockwood, ed. <\/em>\u00a0NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall pp.72-85<\/p>\n

2004 “My ambition is much higher than independence”: US Power, the UN World, the Nation-State, and Their Critics\u201d Co-author John D. Kelly.\u00a0 In Prasenjit Duara, ed.\u00a0 Decolonization:\u00a0 Perspectives from Now and Then<\/em>, Routledge.\u00a0 pp131-151<\/p>\n

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.<\/em>\u00a0 Stanford University Press pp. 183-199<\/p>\n

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2001 Represented Communities:\u00a0 Fiji and World Decolonization.<\/em>\u00a0 Co-author John D. Kelly. Chicago:\u00a0 University of Chicago Press<\/p>\n

2001 “Nation and Decolonization:\u00a0 Towards a New Anthropology of Nationalism.” Co-author John D. Kelly. Anthropological Theory<\/em> 1(4) 419-437<\/p>\n

2001 \u00a0\u201cPeace in Fiji\u201d Co-author John D. Kelly.\u00a0 In Brij V. Lal with Michael Pretes, ed. Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji.<\/em> Canberra:\u00a0 ANU\/Pandanus Books<\/p>\n

1999 “On Discourse and Power:\u00a0 “Cults” and “Orientals” in Colonial Fiji.”\u00a0 Co-author John D. Kelly. American Ethnologist<\/em> 26 (4) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 843-863<\/p>\n

1999 “Race and Rights in Fiji” Co-author John D. Kelly\u00a0 in The Global Color Line<\/em>,<\/span> pp 237-257. Pinar Batur-VanderLippe and Joe Feagin, eds. Stamford, CT:\u00a0 JAI Press<\/p>\n

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1995\u00a0 Neither Cargo nor Cult:\u00a0 Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji<\/em>.\u00a0 Durham, NC:\u00a0 Duke University Press Kaplan Website NCNC 2 chapters – OCR<\/a><\/p>\n

1998 “When 8,870-850=1: Discourses against Democracy in Fiji Past and Present” in Dru Gladney, ed. Making Majorities<\/em>. Stanford, CA:\u00a0 Stanford University Press<\/p>\n

1995\u00a0 “Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak:\u00a0 Ritual-Politics and the Nation in Post-Colonial Fiji” in Robert J. Foster, ed., Nation Making in Postcolonial Melanesia<\/em>. Ann Arbor:\u00a0 University of Michigan Press pp 95-125<\/p>\n

1995\u00a0 “Panopticon in Poona: an essay on Foucault and Colonialism”\u00a0 Cultural Anthropology<\/em> 10 (1) 85-98<\/p>\n

1994 “Rethinking Resistance:\u00a0 Dialogics of Disaffection in Colonial Fiji” Co-author John D. Kelly\u00a0 American Ethnologist<\/em> 21 (1) 123-151<\/p>\n

1993 “Battlements, Temples, and the Landscape of Tuka<\/span>: The Archaeological Record of a Cultural Transformation in 19th Century Fiji”\u00a0 Co-author Mara Rosenthal Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em> 102 (2) 121-145<\/p>\n

1992\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Imagining a Nation:\u00a0 Race, Politics and Crisis in Post-Colonial Fiji” In Contemporary Pacific Society: Studies in Development and Change<\/em>, Thomas Harding, Ben Wallace and Victoria Lockwood, eds.\u00a0 Englewood Cliffs, NJ:\u00a0 Prentice Hall<\/p>\n

1990 “Meaning, Agency and Colonial History:\u00a0 Navosavakadua and the Tuka<\/span> Movement in Fiji.” American Ethnologist<\/em> 17 (1) 3-22<\/p>\n

1990 “History, Structure and Ritual” Co-author John D. Kelly Annual \u00a0Review of Anthropology<\/em> 19\u00a0 119-50<\/p>\n

1990\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Christianity, People of the Land, and Chiefs, in Fiji” In Christianity in Oceania<\/em>, John Barker, ed. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph XII 189-207.\u00a0 Lanham, MD:\u00a0 University Press of America<\/p>\n

1989\u00a0 “The ‘Dangerous and Disaffected Native’ in Fiji:\u00a0 British Colonial Constructions of the Tuka<\/span> Movement”\u00a0 Social Analysis<\/em> 26 20-43<\/p>\n

1989\u00a0 “Luveniwai<\/span> as the British Saw It:\u00a0 Constructions of Custom and Disorder in Colonial Fiji”\u00a0 Ethnohistory<\/em> 36 (4) 349-371<\/p>\n

1988\u00a0 “The Coups in Fiji:\u00a0 Colonial Contradictions and the Post-Colonial Crisis” Critique of Anthropology<\/em> 8 (3) 93-116<\/p>\n

1988\u00a0 Land and Sea and the\u00a0 New White Men:\u00a0 A Reconsideration of the Fijian Tuka Movement <\/em>Ph.D. Dissertation, Anthropology, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

1981 “The Meanings of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii, 1830-1849” M.A. Thesis, Anthropology, University of Chicago
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Book Reviews:<\/h1>\n

2009 Review of State of Suffering:\u00a0 Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji<\/em>.by Susanna Trnka. Political and<\/em> Legal Anthropology Review <\/em>32 (2) 352-353<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 Review of Bittersweet<\/em>\u00a0 by Brij V. Lal, ed.,\u00a0 Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em><\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 Review of Houses Far From Home:\u00a0 British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides<\/em> by Margaret Rodman.\u00a0 Journal of Pacific Studies<\/em>\u00a0 27(1) 109-111<\/em><\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 Review of\u00a0 Anthropology Beyond Culture <\/em>edited by Richard G. Fox and Barbara J. King.\u00a0 Journal of Anthropological Research<\/em> 60: 266-68<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 Review of Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific<\/em> edited by David Hanlon and Geoffrey White.\u00a0 American Anthropologist, <\/em>\u00a0105 (4): 870-871<\/p>\n

2001 Review of Fiji Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development<\/em> edited by\u00a0 Brij V Lal. Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em>110 (4) 418-420<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Review of Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in the Pacific<\/em> edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram.\u00a0 Ethnos<\/em> 66(2)74-76.<\/p>\n

1997\u00a0 Review of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji<\/em> by Anne E. Becker. American Ethnologist<\/em> 24 (2) 501-502.<\/p>\n

1994\u00a0 Review of Kava:\u00a0 The Pacific Drug<\/em> by Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin & Lamont Lindstrom, and of The Abandoned Narcotic:\u00a0 Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia <\/em>by Ron Brunton. Economic Botany<\/em> 48 (2) 227-228<\/p>\n

1994\u00a0 Review of Clio in Oceania:\u00a0 Toward a Historical Anthropology<\/em> edited by Aletta Biersack.\u00a0 American Ethnologist<\/em> 21 (4) 1015-1016<\/p>\n

1994\u00a0 Review of Fiji:\u00a0 Race and Politics in an Island State<\/em>by Michael Howard.\u00a0 American Ethnologist<\/em>21 (4) 1032-1033<\/p>\n

1993\u00a0 Review of Entangled Objects<\/em> by Nicholas Thomas.\u00a0 The Contemporary Pacific<\/em> 5 (2) 452-454<\/p>\n

1992\u00a0 Review of Making Sense of Hierarchy:\u00a0 Cognition as Social Process in Fiji<\/em> by Christina Toren.\u00a0 American Anthropologist<\/em>\u00a0 94 (2) 495-6<\/p>\n

1992 Review of Culture and History in the Pacific<\/em> edited by Jukka Siikala.\u00a0 Man<\/em> (n.s.) 227 (3) 685<\/p>\n

1991 Review of The Ambiguity of Rapprochement:\u00a0 Reflections of Anthropologists on their Controversial Relationship with Missionaries<\/em> edited by Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks, and Jelle Miedema American Anthropologist<\/em> 93 (3) 716<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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