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2026 “The Absence of Clean Water,” High Country News, May 58 (5)
2025 “Literary Anthropology: A User’s Guide,” Anthropology and Humanism 50 (2) [with Laurence Ralph]
2023 “Incident at Antelope Springs,” American Historical Review 128 (2): 938-948
2022 “Report on Totobiegosode-Ayoreo: Tribe, Territory, Risk,” Invited report submitted to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in reference to hearing on cautionary measures MC 54 / 13, Petition 0850-15, Paraguay
2022 “Aquifer Aporias: Towards a Comparative Anthropology of Groundwater Depletion,” Current Anthropology 63 (3): 350-359 (link)
2022 “Full Circle,” in The One Hundred Circle Farm by Emmet Gowin. Princeton: Princeton University Press (link)
2022 “Hiding in Plain Sight: Talking Aquifer Depletion with Lucas Bessire,” Conversation with Julie Livingston, Public Books, March 16 (link)
2022 “Antropología Ontológica y el Aplazamiento de la Crítica,” in Humanos, mas que humanos y no humanos, Carlos Del Cairo and Daniel Ruiz-Serna, eds. Bogotá: Pontífica Universidad Javeriana, pp 352-391 [with David Bond] (link)
2021 “Visualizing a Post-Apocalypse: Notes on New Ayoreo Cinema,” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 17 (1): 16-35 [Backdated, co-author with Bernard Belisário] (link)
2021 “Where Do We Go From Here?” Anthropology Now 13 (1): 1-10 (link)
2021 “The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains,” The Atlantic, December 26 (link)
2021 “The Blossom and the Root in Village Video,” invited comment, Current Anthropology 62 (3): 324-325 [with Bernard Belisário] (link)
2021 “Save the Aquifers of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas,” Op-Ed, Denver Post, Denver Colorado, July 17 (link)
2021 “Running Out: a Kansas Aquifer Crisis,” Op-Ed, Wichita Eagle, Wichita Kansas, June 6
2019 “Depletion,” Special Issue: Rural Almanac, Journal for the Anthropology of North America 22 (2): 63-65 (link)
2019 “Futurs Apocalyptiques: la violente transformation de l’humanité morale chez les Ayoreo du Gran Chaco paraguayen” Terrain: anthropologie & sciences humaines Volume 71 https://doi.org/10.4000/terrain.18010
2018 “Afterword,” Special Issue: Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities, Oceania 88 (3): 377-380 (link)
2018 “The Solidarity of Rubble,” Cultural Dynamics 30 (1-2): 114-118 (link)
2017 “Glimpses of Emergence in the Ayoreo Video Project,” Visual Anthropology Review 33 (2): 119-129 (link)
2017 “How to Run a Video Workshop,” Teaching supplement to “Glimpses,” Visual Anthropology Review online (link)
2017 “Introduction: The Rise of Trumpism,” Fieldsights Cultural Anthropology Online, January 19 [with David Bond] (link)
2017 “On Negative Becoming” in Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming, João Biehl and Peter Locke, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, pp 197-217 (link)
2017 “Indigenizing Public Ethnography: Critical vs. Tactical Reason,” in If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography, Didier Fassin, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, pp 138-159 (link)
2016 “Isolation, Otherwise,” Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 14 (1): 138-139 (link)
2015 Ontology in American Ethnologist, 1980-2014. American Ethnologist online [with David Bond] (link)
2014 “Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique,” American Ethnologist 41 (3): 440-456 [co-author with David Bond, translated and republished in Spanish, 2022c] (link)
2014 “The Rise of Indigenous Hypermarginality: Culture as a Neoliberal Politics of Life in Latin America,” Current Anthropology 55 (3): 276-295 (link)
2013 “Towards an Anthropology of Actually Existing Alterity in the Gran Chaco,” Occasional Papers of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Paper Number 48
2013 “The Anthropology of Radio Fields,” Annual Review of Anthropology 42 (1): 363-378 [co-author with Daniel Fisher] (link)
2012 “The Politics of Isolation: Refused Relation as an Emerging Regime of Indigenous Biolegitimacy,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (3): 1-32 (link)
2012 Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century. New York: New York University Press [with Daniel Fisher] (link)
2011 “Apocalyptic Futures: the violent transformation of moral human life among Ayoreo-speaking people of the Gran Chaco,” American Ethnologist 38 (4): 743-757 [translated and republished in French, 2019b] (link)
2011 “Ujñarone Chosite: Ritual Pœisis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco,” Journal de la Société des Américanistes 97 (1): 259-289 (link)
2009 “From the Ground Looking Up: Report on the Video Nas Aldeias Tour,” American Anthropologist 111 (1): 101-103. [Translated and republished in Portuguese, 2011] (link)