Recent Publications

2022  Book Review, "Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine. Abigail A. Dumes. Duke University Press, 2020, 360 pp." Medical Anthropology Quarterly. June 23, 2022

 2020 "Unsettling Herbalism" Guest Editor, The Ethnobotanical Assembly. Issue 6, Autumn.

2019    "Plant Listening: How North American Herbalists Learn to Pay Attention to Plants." Anthropology Today. Vol. 35, No. 2, April 2019. (pp. 23-27)

2016    "An Ethic of Care for Resilience: Addressing Resilience's Problem of the Present in the 'Transition Towns' model." In the Routledge Handbook of International Resilience. Eds. Chandler, D., and J. Coaffee.

Boucher, R.D., Koch, P.L., Godfrey, L.V., Fehren-Schmitz, L. 2025. Examination of Fe and Cu Isotope Variation in Great Apes Using an Optimized Protocol. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.10051

Boucher, R.D., Wittig, R., Lemoine, S.R.T., Maro, A., Wang, X., Koch, P.L., Oelze, V.M. 2024. Strontium isotopes track female dispersal in Taï chimpanzees.  American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24981

Boucher, R.D., Alavi, S.E., de Jong, H.N., Godfrey, L.V., Vogel, E.R. 2021. Stable isotope evidence (Fe, Cu) suggests that sex, but not aging is recorded in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) bone. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24301

Sosin, Anne N., & Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth A. 2024. Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America. Health Affairs, 43(6), 791-797.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth. 2020. Promoting meaningful recovery with digital mental health care. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29, e105.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth. 2019. "The kids were my drive": Shattered Families, Moral Striving, and the Loss of Parental Selves in the Wake of Homelessness. Ethos 47:54-72.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth and Claire Snell-Rood. 2016. The Changing Context of the Rural U.S.: A Call to Examine the Impacts of Social Change and Rising Social Inequality on Mental Health and Mental Health Care. Psychiatric Services 68(5):503-506.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth. 2015. Putting Meaning into Medicine: Why Context Matters in Psychiatry. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 24(4):292-295.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth, Edward Chu, Robert Drake, Mieka Ritsema, Beverly Smith, and Hoyt Alverson. 2010. Ethno-cultural Variations in the Experience and Meaning of Mental Illness and Treatment: Implications for Access and Utilization.  Transcultural Psychiatry 47:224-251.

Carpenter-Song, Elizabeth. 2009. Caught in the Psychiatric Net: Meanings and Experiences of ADHD, Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, and Mental Health Treatment among Families in the United States.  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 33(1):61-85.

2024. Effects of Tibetan Herbal Formulas on Symptom Length and Reduction among Ambulatory Patients with SARS Co-V2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study. T. Tidwell, T. Namgyal, et al. (S.R. Craig is senior/last author). Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative 5(2024) 100051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbii.2024.100051. 

2024 Ruins in the Making. In S.R. Craig and C. McGranahan, eds. Himalayan Flashes: Regional Ethnography in Short-Form. HIMALAYA 43(2): 38-39.

2023. Undisciplined: An Invitation to Flash Ethnography. C. McGranahan and S.R. Craig Anthropology and Humanism 48(2): 353-354 [introduction to co-edited special collection].

2023    Teacher – A Work of Flash Ethnography. Anthropology Now. 14(1-2): 136-139.

2022    Buddhist Healing Practices. In K. Trainor and P. Arai, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190632922.013.11

2018. Mustang in Black and White. Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Text by Sienna Craig. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications.

2010 Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds. V. Adams, M. Schrempf, and S. Craig eds. London and New York: Berghahn Books.

DeSilva, J. 2021. First Steps. How Upright Walking Made us Human. HarperCollins.

Prabhat, A.M., Miller, C.K., Prang, T.C., Spear, J.K., Williams, S.A., DeSilva, J.M. 2021. Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis. eLife. 10: e65897.

Böhme, M., Spassov, N., DeSilva, J.M., Begun, D. 2020. Reply to: Reevaluating bipedalism in Danuvius. Nature. 586, E4-E5.

McNutt, E., DeSilva, J. 2020. Evidence for an elongated Achilles tendon in Australopithecus. The Anatomical Record. 303, 2382-2391.

Friedl, L., Claxton, A.G., Walker, C.S., Churchill, S.E., Holliday, T.W., Hawks, J.W., Berger, L.R., DeSilva, J.M., Marchi, D. 2019. Femoral neck and shaft structure in Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber (Rising Star System). Journal of Human Evolution. 133, 61-77.

Walker, C., Cofran, Z.D., Grabowski, M., Marchi, D., Cook, R.W., Churchill, S.E., Tommy, K.A., Throckmorton, Z., Ross, A.H., Hawks, J., Yapunich, G.S., Van Arsdale, A.P., Rentzeperis, F., Berger, L., DeSilva, J. 2019. Morphology and evolution of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 170, 5-23.

2021-25

Fannin LD, Thayer ZM, Dominy NJ (2024). Commemorating the monkey bars, catalyst of debate at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and public health. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 12:143-155. (doi: 10.1093/emph/eoae017)

Hobaiter C, Dominy NJ (2024). Eve of extinction. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8:846-847. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02359-y)

Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GE, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin ID, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023). Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12:e88028. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.88028)

Fannin LD, Joy MS, Dominy NJ, McGraw WS, DeSilva JM (2023). Downclimbing and the evolution of ape forelimb morphologies. Royal Society Open Science 10:230145. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.230145)

Veilleux CC, Garrett EC, Pajic P, Saitou M, Ochieng J, Dagsaan LD, Dominy NJ, Perry GH, Gokcumen O, Melin AD (2023). Human subsistence and signatures of selection on human chemosensory genes. Communications Biology 6:683. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05047-y)

Venkataraman V, Barry AE, Dominy NJ, Kardon G (2023) Science at Sundance 2023. Science 379:874-878. (doi: 10.1126/science.adg9997)

Callahan CW, Dominy NJ, DeSilva JM, Mankin JS (2023). Global warming, home runs, and the future of America's pastime. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104:E1006-E1016. (doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0235.1)

Fannin LD, Laugier EJ, van Casteren A, Greenwood SL, Dominy NJ (2022). Differentiating siliceous particulate matter in the diets of mammalian herbivores. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13:2198-2208. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13934)

DePasquale A, Hogan JD, Guadamuz Araya C, Dominy NJ, Melin AD (2022). Aeroscapes and the sensory ecology of olfaction in a tropical dry forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:849281. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.849281)

Fannin LD, Singels E, Esler KJ, Dominy NJ (2021). Grit and consequence. Evolutionary Anthropology 30:375-384. (doi: 10.1002/evan.21927)

McNutt EJ, Hatala KG, Miller C, Adams J, Casana J, Deane AS, Dominy NJ, Fabian K, Fannin LD, Gaughan S, Gill SV, Gurtu J, Gustafson E, Hill AC, Johnson C, Kallindo S, Kilham B, Kilham P, Kim E, Liutkus-Pierce C, Maley B, Prabhat A, Reader J, Rubin S, Thompson NE, Thornburg R, Williams-Hatala EM, Zimmer B, Musiba CM, DeSilva JM (2021). Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania. Nature 600:468-471. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04187-7)

Everett MC, Elliott MC, Gaynor D, Hill AC, Syeda SM, Casana J, Zipfel B, DeSilva JM, Dominy NJ (2021). Mechanical loading of primate fingers on vertical rock surfaces. South African Journal of Science 117:10409. (doi: 10.17159/sajs.2021/10409)

Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf: Strategies for Excellence and Diversity, ed. Dale F. Eickelman and Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2017)
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“The Modern Face of Ibadism in Oman,” in On Ibadism, ed. Angeliki Ziyaka (Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2014), pp. 151-63.

“Media in Islamic and Area Studies: Personal Encounters,” Oriente Moderno 91, no. 1 (2011): 13-22.

“Not Lost in Translation: The Influence of Clifford Geertz’s Work and Life on Anthropology in Morocco.” In Clifford Geertz in Morocco, ed. Susan Slyomovics. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 67-77.

“Foreword” (pp. vii-xi) and “Interview with Muhammad Shahrur” (pp. 501-23) in The Qur‘an, Morality, and Critical Reason: The Essential Muhammad Shahrur, trans. Andreas Christmann. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

 “Social Sciences and the Qur’an,” in Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, vol. 5, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 66-76.

“First Know the Enemy, Then Act,” in Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power, ed. Roberto J. Gonzalez, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, 2004, pp. 214-18  (First published in the Los Angeles Times, 2001).

Public Islam and the Common Good, ed. Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman Leiden: Brill, 2004

New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd edition, co-edited with Jon W. Anderson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003.

Brinker Ferguson, "The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Indigenous Cultural Data Sovereignty," in On Making in the Digital Humanities, London: UCL Press, 2023.

2023. Fleskes, R. E., Cabana, G. S., Gilmore, J., Juarez, C., Karcher, E., Oubré, L., Mishoe, G., Ofunniyin, A. A., Schurr, T. G. Community Engaged Ancient DNA Project Reveals Diverse Origins of 18th Century African and African descendants in Charleston, South Carolina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120(3), e2201620120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201620120

2022. Fleskes, R. E.,* Bader, A. C.,* Tsosie, K. S., Wagner, J. K., Claw, K. G., Garrison, N. A. Ethical Guidance in Human Paleogenomics: New and Ongoing Perspectives. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genom-120621-090239

*Both authors contributed equally

2019  Fleskes, R. E., Bruwelheide, K. S., West, F. L., Owsley, D. W., Griffith, D. R., Barca, K. G., Cabana, G. C., Schurr, T. G. Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 170(2), 232–245. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23887

Book Manuscripts

Diasporic Agency: Transnational Racial Leverage and Challenges to Exceptionalism in Brazil (Under Contract with Columbia University Press Series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future)

Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2022    "Latent Blackness: Afro-Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil" in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26(3-4): 451-467.

2021    "I Africanize São Paulo: Vision, Race, and Afro-Paulista Visual Culture" in Journal of Global South Studies 38(1): 107-124.

2021      "Satirical Antiracism: Digital Protest Images in Afro-Brazilian Media," in Visual Anthropology Review 37(1): 31-51.

2017    "All Tangled Up: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Mariana Rondón's Bad Hair" in Black Camera 9(1): 47-61.

2017    "Representing Black Girlhood in Brazil: Culture and Strategies of Empowerment" in Communication, Culture, and Critique 10(4): 609-625.

2016    "The Help, Unscripted: Representing the Black Revolutionary Domestic in Afro-Brazilian Media" Feminist Media Studies 16(6): 1043-1056.

2016    "Learning to Transgress: Law 10.639 and Teacher Training Programs in Brazil" Transforming Anthropology 24(1): 70-79.

2015    "'Do I Look Suspicious?': Digital Acts, Narratives of Resistance to Police Violence in Brazil" College Language Association Journal 58(3-4): 286 – 302.

2013    "(En)countering Exceptionalism: Afro-Brazilian Responses to the Rise of Obama." Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 8(3): 323 – 335.

Edited Volume Chapters and Commentary

2023     "I Africanize São Paulo" in International Journal of Fashion Studies 10(2): 249-53.

2022    "bell hooks's Oppositional Gaze and Black Feminist Film Production in Brazil." In Women's Studies and Communication 45(4): 450-456.

2022    "Afro-Brazilian Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente's Standpoint Cinema." In Women- Centered Film in Brazil: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century. Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 217 – 232.

2016    "But You (Don't) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States." In Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99-111.

2013    "Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics." In Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences. Beretta Smith-Shomade, ed.    New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 207 – 219.

Greenleaf, Maron. 2024. Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Duke University Press.

Mendoza, Marcos, Maron Greenleaf, and Eric Thomas. 2021 "Green Distributive Politics:  Legitimizing Green Capitalism and Environmental Protection in Latin America." Geoforum.

Greenleaf, Maron. 2020. "The Value of the Untenured Forest: Land Rights, Green Labor, and Forest Carbon in the Brazilian Amazon." Journal of Peasant Studies. 

A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander Goldenweiser. University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming in 2022.

Book  Vincent Soboleff: A Russian-American Photographer in Tlingit Country. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2013.

The 2015 Western History Association Joan Patterson Kerr Award for the best illustrated book on the American West.

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1738/a%20russian%20american...

Book  Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. University of Washington Press.  1999.

http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KANMEM.html

Edited Volume and Journal  Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.  (Co-edited with Pauline Turner Strong).  2006.

Edited Volume and Journal  Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2001.

Article 2016. To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness: Lev Shternberg’s Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in Soviet Russia.  Pp. 64-84 In Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse.  Ed. by Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger.  Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 

Article  2013. Sergei Ionovich Kostromitinov (1854-1915) or "Colonel George Kostrometinoff": from a Creole Teenager to the Number One Russian-American Citizen of Sitka.  Ethnohistory 60(3): 385-402.

Article   2008  Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography.  Museum Anthropology 31(1): 28-46.

Article  2006 Events and Nonevents on the Tlingit/Russian/American Colonial Frontier, 1802-1879. Pp. 310-327 In Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations.  Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Article  2001 Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork: One Anthropologist's Adoption by Two Tlingit Families.  Pp. 185-217 In Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America.  Sergei Kan, ed.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Article  1991 Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past.  Ethnohistory 38 (4): 363-387

Article  1987 Memory Eternal:  Russian Orthodoxy and the Tlingit Mortuary Complex.  Arctic Anthropology  24 (1):32-55. 

Article 2017        (Co-authored with Dmitry Arzyutov) ' The Concept of the "Field" in Early Soviet Ethnography: A Northern Perspective.  Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, vol  vol. 16, no. 1: 31–74.

Article  2018        Unites States, Anthropology. International Encyclopedia of  Anthropology. pp. 6280-6309. Ed. by Hilary Callan.  Wiley-Blackwell.

Electronic article 2019 .  Mainstream or Marginal Boasian? An Intellectual Biography of Robert H. Lowie.  In Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie, Paris, IIAC LAHIC, UMR 8177.  URL: http://www.berose.fr/?Mainstream-or-Marginal-Boasian-An-Intellectual-Biography-of-Robert-H-Lowie

Bernhard H. Stern, an American Apologist for Stalinism. History of Anthropology

Review. February 25, 2021 (online).

https://histanthro.org/notes/bernhard-j-stern-an-american-apologist-for-...

Orthodox Church Brotherhoods of the Sitka Creoles, 1870s-1910s. Alaska History, vol. 36(1): 54-71. 2021.

2024. McLeester, M. and Casana, J. (Eds). Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association: Volume 35, Issue 1.

2023. McLeester, M., Anastasio, A., and Grignon, J. Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA, Ethnobiology Letters, 14(1): 80-91.

2022. McLeester, M., Schurr, M., Martin, T., and Wheeler, J. From Wet Lands to Dry Spaces (And Back Again): Archaeological Perspectives on the Use, Drainage, and Restoration of the Kankakee Wetlands, USA, Journal of Wetland Archaeology, Special Edition.

2020. McLeester, M., & Schurr, M. Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18O/16O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells. Environmental Archaeology, 26(6), 555–566.

Ahmad, S. I., Shih, E. W., LeWinn, K. Z., Rivera, L., Graff, C., Mason, W. A., Karr, C. J., Sathyanarayana, S., Tylavsky, F. A., & Bush, N.R. (2022). Intergenerational transmission of effects of women's stressors during pregnancy: Child psychopathology and the protective role of parenting. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.838535

Rivera, L. M.1, Cerdena, J.C.1, & Spak, J. M. (2021). Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine, 270, 113662. 1 shared first author

Aschbacher, K., Hagan, M., Steine, I., Rivera, L. M., Cole, S., Epel, E., Bacarella, A., Lieberman, A., Bush, N. (2021) Adversity in Early Life and Pregnancy are Uniquely Associated with Inflammatory Phenotype Biomarkers: Support for Sensitive Periods of Innate Immune System Development. Translational Psychiatry.

Aschbacher, K., Cole, S., Hagan, M., Rivera, L. M., Bacarella, A., Wolkowitzl, O., Hendren, R., Lieberman, A., Bush, N. (2021). An Immunogenomic Phenotype Predicting Behavioral Treatment Response: Toward Precision Psychiatry for Trauma Exposure. Brain Behavior and Immunity.

Rivera, L. (2020). Immunological Ghosts: Epigenetic Racialization in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Thinking Republic. https://www.thethinkingrepublic.com/being-counted/immunological-ghosts-e... pandemic

Slobe, T. (2023). Language and Student Political Participation in Chile (Doctoral dissertation, UCLA).

Slobe, T. (2018). Style, stance, and social meaning in mock white girl. Language in Society, 47(4), 541-567.

Slobe, T. (2016). "Creepy-ass cracker" in post-racial America: Don West's examination of Rachel Jeantel in the George Zimmerman murder trial. Text & Talk, 36(5), 613-635.

2023 Thayer, Z. M., Geisel-Zamora, S. A., Uwizeye, G., & Gildner, T. E. Childbirth fear in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic: key predictors and associated birth outcomes. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 101-111.

2020 Thayer, Z., Rutherford, J., & Kuzawa, C. The Maternal Nutritional Buffering Model: An evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention. Evolution,
Medicine, and Public Health (1), 14–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoz037

2019 Conching, A and Z. Thayer. "Biological pathways for historical trauma to affect health: a conceptual model focusing on epigenetic modifications." Social Science & Medicine, 230:74-82.

2017 Fox, M., Thayer., Z., and P. Wadhwa. "Acculturation and health: the moderating role of socio-cultural context" American Anthropologist 119(3): 405-421.

2017 Wilson, M. and Z. Thayer. "Maternal Salivary Cortisone to Cortisol Ratio in Late Pregnancy: a Better Predictor of Offspring Birth Weight than Cortisol." Psychoneuroendocrinology 78: 10-13.

2015    Thayer, Z. and A. Non. "Anthropology meets epigenetics: Current and future directions." American Anthropologist 117(4): 722-735.

2014    Thayer, Z. and C. Kuzawa. "Intergenerational effects of maternal experience: Influence of SES on maternal and offspring stress physiology in New Zealand." American Journal of Human Biology 26(6): 723-730.

Wang, J. L. Liu, X. Qin (2024). Reconstructing Late Neolithic animal management practices in North China using microbotanical analysis of dental calculus: A case study of Kangjia. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.43

Wang, J. L. Ng, T. Serrao-Leiva (2023). Self-reliance and pig husbandry in Los Angeles Chinatown (1880-1933): New evidence from dental calculus analysis and historical records. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.79

Wang, J., J. Zhu, D. Lei, L. Jiang (2022). New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China. PLOS ONE 17(12): e0278200 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278200

Wang, J., L. Jiang (2021). Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836211041732

Wang, J., L. Jiang, H. Sun (2021). Early evidence for beer drinking in a 9000-year-old platform mound in southern China. PLOS ONE 16(8): e0255833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255833

Wang, J., L. Liu, A. Georgescu, V. Le, M. Ota, S. Tang, M. Vanderbilt (2017). Identifying ancient beer brewing through starch analysis: a methodology, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15:150-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.016

Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World. Austin: University of Texas Press [now out in Spanish with a new preface as "Los que estamos aqui": comunidad e identidad entre los mayas de Santiago Chimaltenango, Huehuetenango, 1937-1990. Eddy H. Gaytan, tr. Serie monografica, no. 15. South Woodstock, VT and La Antigua Guatemala: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, 2006].   (1992)

Racing to the Top: Descent Ideologies and Why Ladinos in Guatemala Never Meant to be Mestizos. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 11.  (2016)

“Cooperation, Commitment, and Communication in the Evolution of Human Sociality,” in The Evolution and Nature or Sociality among Human and Nonhuman Primates , R W Sussman (ed.), pp. 288-309.  New York: Aldine de Grutyer (with B B Smuts).  (2004)

With All the Means that Prudence Would Suggest: "Procedural Culture" and the Writing of Cultural Histories of Power about 19th-Century Mesoamerica. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 6 (2): 134-174.  (2001)