Publications
Recent Work—Cabo Verde
Negotiating Afro-Jewish Identity in the Cabo Verdean Diaspora
New Year, New Life: A (Re-)Conversion Story for Rosh Hashanah
Resilience in Rhode Island: Cape Verdeans Coping Creatively with the COVID-19 Crisis
The Restless Anthropologist: Crossing Borders to New Fieldsites
Recent Work—Children
Bringing the Real World into Developmental Science (with Gilda Morelli et al.)
Crib, Lap, or Back? What Sleeping (and Awake) Babies Tell Us about How Culture Matters
Is It Time to Detach from Attachment Theory?
The Myth of Universal Sensitive Responsiveness: Comment on Mesman et al. (with Heidi Keller et al.)
Real-World Applications of Attachment Theory (with Mariano Rosabal-Coto et al.)
Taking Culture Seriously (with Gilda Morelli et al.)
Recent Work—Ethnographic Research & Writing
Recent Work—Menstruation
Menstrual Taboos: Moving beyond the Curse
Earlier Research Papers & Articles
The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: Infancy in West Africa
Afterword to “Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution”
American Premenstrual Syndrome: A Mute Voice
The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced
Babies’ Baths, Babies’ Remembrances: A Beng Theory of Development, History and Memory
Babies as Ancestors, Babies as Spirits: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
Beyond the Lonely Anthropologist: Collaboration in Research and Writing
Cousin Marriage, Birth and Gender: Alliance Models among the Beng of Ivory Coast
Deconstructing the Notion of Education: A View from West Africa
Dog: Ally or Traitor? Mythology, Cosmology and Society among the Beng of Ivory Coast
Do Infants Have Religion? The Spiritual Lives of Beng Babies
Ethnography: Theory and Methods
Fabrication d’un Premier Dictionnaire de la Langue Beng : Quelques Considérations éthiques [Construction of a First Dictionary of the Beng Language: Some Ethical Considerations]
First Acts of Violence: Reflections on Breastfeeding and Enemas in West Africa
Grasping the Nature of Pictures (with Judy deLoache et al.)
Hyenas and Heteroglossia: Myth and Ritual among the Beng of Côte d’Ivoire
Interpreting Gender and Sexuality
Loggers v. Spirits in the Beng Forest, Côte d’Ivoire: Competing Models
Luring Your Child into this Life
Mad to Be Modern (with Philip Graham)
Our Village Needs Chairs (with Philip Graham)
The Perils of Popularizing Anthropology
Promoting an Anthropology of Infants: Some Personal Reflections
Quiet Crisis Building in the Horn of Africa
Rethinking Female Pollution: The Beng Case (Côte d’Ivoire)
Rituals for and Care of the Newborn
Revising the Text, Revisioning the Field: Reciprocity over the Long Term (with Philip Graham)
Secrets and Society: The Beng of Ivory Coast
Sex, Fertility and Menstruation among the Beng of the Ivory Coast: A Symbolic Analysis
The Social Theories of Fustel and Durkheim: Toward an Analysis of a Neglected Relationship
Stalking the Wild Symbol: Reflections on Sperber and Structuralism
Where Have All the Babies Gone? Toward an Anthropology of Infants (and Their Caretakers)
Witches, Kings, and the Sacrifice of Identity
My colleague Judy DeLoache and I spent a delightful week at Marbach Castle (in Öhningen, Germany) in late August 2015, with support from the Jacobs Foundation (based in Zurich), for a luxurious writing retreat–working on final stages of the new edition of A World of Babies.