Areas of Expertise
- Law and dispute settlement
- Religion and magic
- Cross-cultural study of personality and emotions
- Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “Dead Goats and Broken Betrothals: Liability and Equity in Dou Donggo Law.”American Ethnologist 17: 75-90, 1990. Oxford University Press, 1988
- “History, Power, Ideology, and Culture: Current Directions in the Anthropology of Law.” Law and Society Review 26 (2): 373-411, 1992
- Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2000, co-authored with John D. Monaghan
- Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict & Morality in an Indonesian Society. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
- “Law, Ritual and Order.” In K. von Benda-Beckmann and F. Pirie, eds., Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives, Berghahn Books, 2007