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Selected Academic Publications


Peer-Reviewed Books

2014. Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the
Canadian Arctic. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2006. Critical Inuit Studies (edited with Pamela Stern). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2020. “Looking Away,” in “Gestures of Care and Recognition” ed. Lauren Cubellis, special issue, Cultural Anthropology. 

2019. “What There Is to Fear”, in “It Runs in the Family: Exploring Contagious Kinship Connections” ed. Lotte Meinert and Lone Grøn, special issue, Ethnos (published online, July 2019): 1-18. 

2017. “Sounding Death, Saying Something,” Social Text 35, no 1 (130): 59–78.

2015. “Leviathan: An Ethnographic Dream” (co-authored with Eduardo Kohn), Visual Anthropology Review 31(1): 51-55. 

2012. “The Psychic Life of Biopolitics: Survival, Cooperation, and Inuit Community,” American Ethnologist 39(3): 592-613.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming. “Looking Away.” In Traces of Care: Discernment and the Work of Recognition. Durham, Duke University Press.

2017. “A Proper Message,” in Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean, eds., Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Durham: Duke University Press. 

2015. “Life Beside Itself.” in Veena Das and Clara Han, eds., Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium. Berkeley: University of California Press.