Magic Spells, Sexuality, and the Body
2002 "Open Desire, Close the Body": Magic spells, Desire and the Body among the Petalangan Women of Indonesia.
In Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice. Campbell-Kibler et al.(eds)
Stanford: CLSI pp. 267-288.2003 The Desire to be Desired: Magic Spells, Agency and the Politics of Desire among the Petalangan in Indonesia.
In Language & Communication 23 (2): 153-167.
Ritual Songs, Emotion, and Self-Other Interaction
2002 "Addressing the Invisible World": Indexicality, Iconicity and the Cultural Concept of Self in Belian, a Petalangan Healing Ritual in Indonesia.
In SALSA 8: Texas Linguistic Forum Vol. 44. No. 1. Katabka, Ristsuko et al. (eds) Austin: Texas Linguistic Forum. Pp. 90-103. http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/salsaproceedings/salsa8/papers/kang-8.pdf2002 Endearing or En-daring?: the Pragmatics of Love in a Performance of Honey Collecting Ritual among the Petalangan People in Indonesia.
In SALSA 9: Texas Linguistic Forum Vol. 44. No.2. Henning, Kate et al.(eds) Austin: Texas Linguistic Forum. Pp. 302-312. http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/salsaproceedings/salsa9/papers/kang-9.pdf
Genre, Language Ideology, and Social Change
2002 "Staged" Rituals and "Veiled" Spells: Multiple Language Ideologies and Contextual Meanings of the Petalangan Oral Tradition in Social Change. Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2002.
Book Review
2003 Translating Nature and Claim-Makings in Southeast Asia. Book Review of Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Seas, and Coasts in Southeast Asia. Edited by Charles Zerner. Duke University Press. 2003. In Anthropological Quarterly 76(2): 335-341.
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