Tania Li

Selected Publications

Books
1999 (edited) Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power and Production. London: Routledge. Translated and republished Obor Foundation 2002.
1989 Malays in Singapore: Culture. Economy and Ideology. New York and Singapore: Oxford University Press. Republished in translation, Kuala Lumpur: Forum. 1995.

Articles in Major Journals
2005 (in press) “Beyond “the State” and Failed Schemes” American Anthropologist.
2003 “Situating Resource Struggles: Concepts for Empirical Analysis” Economic and Political Weekly 38(48):5120-5128
2002 “Ethnic Cleansing, Recursive Knowledge, and the Dilemmas of Sedentarism” International Journal of Social Science 173:361-371
2002 “Local Histories, Global Markets: Cocoa and Class in Upland Sulawesi” Development and Change 33(3):415-437
2002 “Engaging Simplifications: Community Based Resource Management, Market Processes and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia” World Development 30(2):265-283.
2001 “Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone” Modern Asian Studies 35(3):645-676
2001 “Relational Histories and the Production of Difference on Sulawesi’s Upland Frontier” Journal of Asian Studies 60(1):41-66
2000 “Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot” Comparative Studies in Society and History 42(1):149-179.
1999 “Compromising Power: Development, Culture and Rule in Indonesia” Cultural Anthropology 40(3): 277-309.
1998 “Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property and Power in Conjugal Relations.” American Ethnologist. 25(4): 675-694
1996 “Images of Community: Discourse and Strategy in Property Relations”. Development and Change. 27(3):501-527.

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