Academic Writings

A short introduction describing the content of the page, how it is divided into commentaries, research articles, and reviews; and reminding readers that this is academic work, and popular work can be found on a separate page; etc.

Commentary

  • “Disability and the Worship of Work.” Somatosphere 2025.

    Online Article / Blog Post

    Link
  • “Cultures of Fermentation: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 24.” Current Anthropology 61, no. S24 (2021): S193–S206.

    Journal Article

  • “Engaged Anthropology.” In Handbook to Cultural Anthropology, Edited by Lisa Cliggett, Lene Pedersen, SAGE Publications, 2021.

    Chapter

  • “Disability Worlds: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 21.” Current Anthropology 61, no. S21 (2020).

    Journal Article

  • “Funding Anthropological Research in the Age of Covid-19.” American Ethnologist Website 2020.

    Online Article / Blog Post

    Link
  • “Cultures of Militarism: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 19.” Current Anthropology 60, no. S19 (2019): S1–S2.

    Journal Article

  • “Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 20.” Current Anthropology 60, no. S20 (2019): S183–S185.

    Journal Article

  • “Empiricism.” In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Edited by Hilary Callan, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.

    Chapter

  • “Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 17.” Current Anthropology 58, no. S17 (2017): S371–S372.

    Journal Article

  • “Affect Theory and the Empirical.” Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (2016): 18.1–18.16.

    Journal Article

  • “Introduction: About Time.” Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 241–250.

    Journal Article

  • “Real Food.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5, no. 1 (2015): 541–546.

    Journal Article

  • “Both Places at Once.” In Producing Indonesia: The State of the Field of Indonesian Studies, Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2014.

    Chapter

  • “Affect: Provocation.” Cultural Anthropology Online 2013.

    Online Article / Blog Post

  • “Commentary: What Affect Produces.” American Ethnologist 39, no. 4 (2012): 688–691.

    Journal Article

  • “In Defense of Ambivalence.” Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2010).

    Journal Article

  • “Kinship, Capital, and the Unsettling of Assumptions: Contemporary Anthropology and the Study of Family Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.” In Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth, Edited by Alex Stewart, Emerald Group Publishing, 2010: 277–283.

    Chapter

  • “An Absence of Belief?.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere 2009.

    Online Article / Blog Post

    Link
  • “Ethnography without Culture? Modernity and Marginality in the Anthropology of Indonesia.” Reviews in Anthropology 32, no. 1 (2003): 91–108.

    Journal Article

  • “After Syncretism: The Anthropology of Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 44, no. 1 (2002): 196–205.

    Journal Article

  • “Remembering Sam Kapissa.” Inside Indonesia 2001.

    Newspaper / Magazine Article

Research Article

  • “Emergency Rooms.” In Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, Edited by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Rutgers University Press, 2024.

    Chapter

  • “Becoming an Operating System: Disability, Difference, and the Ethics of Communication in the United States.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 2 (2021): 139-152.

    Journal Article

  • “Proximity to Disability.” Anthropological Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2020): 1453-1481.

    Journal Article

  • “How Structuralism Matters.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 3 (2016): 61-77.

    Journal Article

  • “Demonstrating the Stone Age in Dutch New Guinea.” In From Stone Age to Real Time: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities, and Religiosities, Edited by Jenny Munro, Martin Slama, Australian National University Press, 2015.

    Chapter

  • “Kinship and Catastrophe: Global Warming and the Rhetoric of Descent.” In Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship, Edited by Fenella Cannell, Susan McKinnon, SAR Press, 2013.

    Chapter

  • “Living, As It Were, in the Stone Age.” Indonesia 95, no. April (2013).

    Journal Article

  • “Kinky Empiricism.” Cultural Anthropology 27, no. 3 (2012): 465-79.

    Journal Article

  • “Position Paper in The Learning of Mind: How Do You Figure Out What a Mind Is? Play, Creativity, Fiction, and Fantasy. Toward a Theory of Mind.” Suomen Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Institute 36, no. 4 (2011): 39-41.

    Journal Article

  • “Laughing at Leviathan: John Furnivall, Dutch New Guinea, and the Ridiculousness of Colonial Rule.” In Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between Anthropology and History, Edited by Andrew Willford, Eric Tagliacozzo, Stanford University Press, 2009: 50-87.

    Chapter

  • “Der Tanz, Durkheim und das Freimde: Eine Rückkehr zum Comeback der Tradition in Biak (Dance, Durkheim, and the Foreign: Revisiting the Revival of Tradition in Biak).” In Tanz als Anthropologie, Edited by Gabriele Brandstetter, Christoph Wulf, Wilhelm Fink, 2007.

    Chapter

  • “Nationalism and Millenarianism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth.” In The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity, Edited by Matthew Engelke, Matthew Tomlinson, Berghahn Books, 2006.

    Chapter

  • “Frontiers of the Lingua Franca: Ideologies of the Linguistic Contact Zone in Dutch New Guinea.” Ethnos 70, no. 3 (2005): 387-412.

    Journal Article

  • “Nationalism and Millenarianism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth.” In Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader, Edited by June Nash, Blackwell, 2005: 146-168.

    Chapter

  • “Laughing at Leviathan: John Furnivall, Dutch New Guinea, and the Ridiculousness of Colonial Rule.” In Southeast Asia over Three Generations, Edited by James T. Siegel, Audrey Kahin, Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2003: 27-46.

    Chapter

  • Rutherford, Danilyn and Mote, Octovianus “From Irian Jaya to Papua: The Limits of Primordialism in Indonesia’s Troubled East.” Indonesia 72 (2001): 115-140.

    Journal Article

  • “Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak.” Public Culture 13, no. 2 (2001): 299-32.

    Journal Article

  • “Fishing for the Foreign: A Magical Practice from Biak.” In Irian Jaya: Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage, Edited by James J. Fox, Didier Millet, 1998: 94-95.

    Chapter

  • “Irian Jaya: Wor.” In Indonesian Languages and Literature, Indonesian Heritage, Edited by John McGlynn, Goenawan Mohamad, Didier Millet, 1998: 58-59.

    Chapter

  • “Love, Violence, and Foreign Wealth: Kinship and History in Biak, Irian Jaya.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4, no. 2 (1998): 257-81.

    Journal Article

  • “Music of Biak, Irian Jaya: Wor, Church Songs, Yospan.” In Music of Indonesia, Edited by Philip Yampolsky, Smithsonian Institute/Folkways Records, 1996.

    Chapter

  • “Of Birds and Gifts: Reviving Tradition on an Indonesian Frontier.” Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 4 (1996): 577-616.

    Journal Article

Review

  • Review of Review of Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, Disability Worlds. Reviews in Anthropology (2024).

    Review

    Link
  • Review of Review of Elizabeth Povinelli, The Empire of Love: Towards a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14 (2008): 709–710.

    Review

  • Review of Review of Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State: Jambi and the Rise of Dutch Imperialism, 1830–1907. Journal of Asian History 40 (1) (2006): 111–113.

    Review

  • Review of Review of Gregory Forth, ed., Guardians of the Land: Louis Fontijne’s Study of a Colonial District in Eastern Indonesia. Indonesia 82 (2006): 141–145.

    Review

  • Review of Review of Clive Moore, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 48 (1) (2005): 136–138.

    Review

  • Review of Review of Frances Gouda, Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies 1900–1942. American Anthropologist 99 (3) (1997): 28–29.

    Review

  • Review of Review of Adrian Vickers, ed., Being Modern in Bali. Indonesia 62 (1996): 125–131.

    Review

Danilyn Rutherford