Special Issues

Varieties of Description with V. Das and P. Donatelli, A Contrario: Revue interdisciplinaire de sciences sociales, forth. 2026

Ordinary Aesthetics with S. Laugier, Open Philosophy, Vol 6:1 (2023)

Cross-Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional with N. Khan, Anthropology & Humanism Vol 47:2 (2023)

Articles & Book Chapters

“Forget Quotation: The Detail in Our Dreams” in A Matter of Detail: Philosophy, Anthropology, and Aesthetics. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025)

“Introducing an Anthropological Tone in German Literature” in B. Venkat Mani and D. Kim, eds. Teaching German Literature for the 21st Century, (New York: Modern Language Association, 2025)

“Philosophy, Literature and the Romantic Response to Skepticism.” In P. Marrati, ed., Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2025)

“Locating the State: Between Region and History” with I. Adorjan and S. Randeria, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 54 (2024)

“For an Ordinary Aesthetics,” with S. Laugier, Open Philosophy. Vol 6:1 (2023)

“Reading Context: On the Ethnography of Translation and Commentary” in M. Rosen ed., The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty (Palgrave McMillan, 2023)

“Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere” with Veena Das and Michael Puett, Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy. Vol 62:2 (2023), 449-483

“A Parody in Berlin: The Trivial, Normal, and the Ordinary of Historical Violence.” Anthropology & Humanism. Vol 28:1 (2023) pp 136-145

“The Potencie of Text: Shifting Concepts of Myth and Literature” in Living with Concepts: Anthropological in the Grip of Reality, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021) pp 110-139

“Life with Concepts,” with Marco Motta in Living with Concepts: Anthropological in the Grip of Reality, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021) pp 1-29

“The Prosody of Social Ties: Poetry and Ephemerality in ‘Global’ Berlin.” Current Anthropology. Vol. 61:4 (2020): 514-543

“Literature and Anthropology.” In M. Aldernderfer ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)

“Plotting the Field: Fragments of Malinowski’s Stories of the Baloma.” with S. Bagaria, Anthropological Theory. Vol. 20:1 (2020): 29-52

“Genres of Witness: Violence, Personhood, Generations.” With Clara Han. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 84:4 (2020):  629-646.

“Locations and Locutions” with V. Das and S. Randeria in T. Risse & L Roulleau-Berger eds., Post-Western Sociology: From China to Europe (New York, NY: Routledge, 2018), pp 88-105

“Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State.” with S. Randeria in Risse, T., Börzel, T. A., & Draude, A. eds., Oxford Handbook on Governance and Limited Statehood, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp 68-89

“The Art of Conviviality.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Vol. 6:2 (2017): 323-343

“Triste Romantik: Ruminations on an Ethnographic Encounter,” in R. Chatterji, ed.  Wording the Word (Fordham, NY: Fordham University Press, 2015), pp.158-272.