Selected articles and chapters in books
‘Taro 'Brands' and Initiation ‘Styles’’, in Brand New World: Distinguishing Oneself in the Global Flow eds. Mario Biagioli, Anupam Chander & Madhavi Sunder, UC Davis Law Review 47:2 2013. lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/current-issue.html
Choreographic Objects. Contemporary dance, digital technologies, and prototyping social visibility. Journal of Cultural Economy 2013
Anthropological Forum Special Issue on 'Recognising and Translating Knowledge', published Nov 2012
La Mort du Tambour published in Technique et Culture, October 2012.
The Time of Money. Property and Sovereignty as Alternative Narratives of Land and Value near the Ramu NiCo Mining Project, Le Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 138-139, anne 2014. Download
Waterfall, Movement, Life. Dyed Bark Fibre Skirts on the Rai Coast of PNG in Melanesia: Art and Encounter (2013) (eds) L. Bolton, N Thomas, E Bonshek and J Adams, London: British Museum Press.Download
Sisau, Pinbin and Porer Nombo, 2013. 'Mi sori long ol', in Melanesia: Art and Encounter (eds) Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt, London: British Museum Press. pp 92-96.Download
Art/Science collaborations and Intellectual Property Law article published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/23
Leaving the Magic Out: Knowledge and Effect in Different Places, 2012. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, 22:3, 251-270. Download
‘Recognising and Translating Knowledge: Navigating the Political, Epistemological, Legal and Ontological (with Richard Davis), 2012. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, 22:3, 209-223. Download
‘La Mort du Tambor. Choses uniques sur la rai Coast de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée’, 2012.Techniques & Culture 58: 28-47. Download
The Self of the Scientist: Material for the Artist. Emergent Distinctions in Interdisciplinary Collaborations 2011. Social Analysis 55(3): 143-163. Download draft .
GDAT (Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory) 2010. 'The Task of Anthropology is to Invent Relations'. Forthcoming in CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY 32:1
Step Inside: The Politics of (making) knowledge objects, in The Politics of Knowledge (eds) Patrick Beart and Fernando Rubio, 2012 London: Routledge pp. 79-95. Download draft text
'20t has no power now'. Property, Customary Tenure and Pressure on Land near the Ramu Nickel Project Area, Madang, PNG'. Pacific Studies Special Issue: Land and Law. Edited by Susan Farran. Vol 34: 2/3. 2011 pp. 295-322 Download draft text .
'Enabling Innovation: creative investments in arts and humanities research' James Leach and Lee Wilson. 2010. Download
'Intervening with the Social. Ethnographic practice and Tarde's image of relations between subjects', in M. Candea (ed) The Social After Gabriel Tarde London: Routledge (2010) Download draft
'Freedom Imagined. Morality and Aesthetics in Open Source Software Design' (with Dawn Nafus and Bernhard Krieger), in Ethnos Vol 74:1 pp51-71 (2009) Download
'Arts and owners: Intellectual property law and the politics of scale in Indonesian arts', with Lorraine V Aragon, in American Ethnologist, Vol 35/4, (2008) Download
‘An Anthropological Approach to Transactions involving Names and Marks, drawing on Melanesia’, in Trademarks and Brands, an Interdisciplinary Critique, (eds.) Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2008) Link to draft
'Creativity, Subjectivity, and the Dynamic of Possessive Individualism' in Creativity and Cultural Improvisation (2007) (eds.) T. Ingold and E. Hallam, ASA Monograph 43. Oxford: Berg. Download
'Differentiation and encompassment: A critique of Alfred Gells theory of creativity' in Thinking Through Things (2007), (eds.) Ami Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell, London: Routledge. Download
'Team Spirit. The Pervasive Influence of Place Generation in 'Community Building' Activities along the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea.' Journal of Material Culture 11(1 and 2): (2006) Download
Livers and Lives: Organ extraction narratives on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea'. in Commodification. Things, Agency, and Identities (The Social Life of Things Revisited) (2005) (eds.) Peter Geschiere and Wim van Binsbergen, LIT Verlag: Munster. Dowload
'Modes of Creativity' in E. Hirsch and M. Strathern (eds) Transactions and Creations. Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia (2004), Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford Link Download
'Owning Creativity. Cultural Property and the Efficacy of Kastom on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea' Journal of Material Culture 8(2): 123-143 (2003) Download
'Drum and voice: aesthetics and social process on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 8, 713-734 (2002) Download
