Publications

Published work

A selected bibliography, with dedicated pages for the books and folktale project. Book reviews are omitted.

  1. “Folklore: A Cycle of Alev Stories.” Mānoa 33, no. 2 and 34, no. 1 (2022): 65–68.
  2. With Jason A. Carbine. “Editors’ Introduction.” In Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion, 1–24. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022.
  3. “Sīmās as Assemblages of Territorial Imagination in Cambodia.” In Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion, 278–316. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022.
  4. “Kinship beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism.” Contemporary Buddhism 16, no. 1 (2015): 125–140.
  5. “The (Buddhist) Ascetic Who Remembers Past Lives.” In Figures of Modernity in Southeast Asia. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012.
  6. “Khmer Spirits, Chinese Bodies.” In Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia. Brill, 2012.
  7. “Weaving Life out of Death.” In Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  8. “Imagined Parasites: Flows of Monies and Spirits in Cambodia.” In Cambodia’s Economic Transformation. NIAS Press, 2011.
  9. “Between Forests and Families: Death, Desire, and Order in Cambodia.” In People of Virtue. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008.
  10. “Imaginary Conversations with Mothers about Death.” In At the Edge of the Forest. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Press, 2008.
  11. Translation of Hok Sokol, “Monumental Architecture and Habitable Homes.” In Khmer Wooden Heritage. Center for Khmer Studies, 2006.
2017Interview

Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia

A New Books Network conversation about funeral ritual, spirits, monks, agriculture, and the Cambodian religious imagination.

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2013Essay

Beginning a Sketch of Accumulation by Dispossession in Contemporary Cambodia

An account of land, labor, and political-economic transformation in contemporary Cambodia.

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