| Publications | Books
2004 Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology. Edited by Barry Morris & Rohan Bastin. Critical Interventions Volume 5. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2002 The Domain of Constant Excess: Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Monograph (article length)
2001 Globalisation and Conflict. In A History of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Marga Monograph Series on Ethnic Reconciliation, No. 23. Series editors Michael Roberts, Godfrey Gunatilleke and Devanesan Nesiah. Colombo: MARGA Institute.
Articles
2011 "Shrill Denials: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Sri Lanka" Arena Magazine 113: 7-9.
2010 "The Australian War Memorial and Fabrications of History: A Cautionary Tale" Nethra Review 11(2): 1-4
2009 "Sri Lankan Civil Society and its Fanatics." Social Analysis 53(1): 123140.
2009 "'Royal Science' and Civil War in Sri Lanka: a Comment on S. Goonatilake" Contributions to Indian Sociology 43(3): 443467.
2005 "The Role of Hindu Temples in the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict: Capture and Excess". Social Analysis 49(1): 4566.
2004 "The Death of the Indian Social." Social Analysis 48(3): 204-12.
2003 "Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy and Anthropology." Introduction to Forum, Social Analysis 47(1): 7783 (with Barry Morris).
2003 "Surrender to the Market: Thoughts on Anthropology, The Body Shop, and Intellectuals." The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14(1): 1938.
2002 "Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka." Social Analysis 46(3): 15574.
2001 "Ritual Games for the Goddess Pattini." Social Analysis, 45(4):12042.
1996 "The Regenerative Power of Kali Worship in Contemporary Sri Lanka." Social Analysis 40: 5994.
Book Chapters
2012 "Empty Spaces and the Multiple Modernities of Nationalism" Appendix 3 in Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia fully revised edition, Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.
2010 "Sri Lankan Civil Society and its Fanatics" in Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle & Annelin Ericksen (eds) Contemporary Religiosities: Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books
2005 "The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the Imaginary." In Aesthetics and Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.
2003 "Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka". In Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery edited by Bruce Kapferer. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.
1997 "The Authentic Inner Life: Complicity and Resistance in the Tamil Hindu Revival." In Sri Lanka: Collective Identities Revisited. Edited by Michael Roberts Volume 1. Colombo: MARGA Institute.
1994 "Development and Tradition in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese State and Minority Tamils". In Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations edited by Alberto Gomes Bundoora, Australia: La Trobe University Press.
Book Reviews (2008 to present)
2011 T.M.S. Evens Anthropology as Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 22(3): 422-424
2008 Frederick M. Smith The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization. American Anthropologist 110(4): 530531.
2008 Margaret Trawick Enemy Lines: War, Childhood and Play in Batticaloa and Mark Whitaker Learning Politics from Sivaram The Australian Journal of Anthropology 19(3): 373376.
2008 Dennis B. McGilvray Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 9(4): 318320.
2008 Robert Deliθge, Lιvi-Strauss Today: An Introduction to Structural Anthropology. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 9(1): 8789
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