2018 Comment on Sverre Molland, Sedentary Optics: Static Anti-trafficking and Mobile Victims. Current Anthropology 59, 2: 128-29.
2011 States lie, and stories are tools: Following up on Zomia (invited Debate commentary). Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 167, 1: 92-5.
2011 Ethnology and the Issue of Human Diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia. In Dynamics of Human Diversity: The Case of Southeast Asia, ed. N.J. Enfield. Pacific Linguistics 627: 109-22.
2011 Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand. Pp. 107-16 in Everyday Life in Southeast Asia, ed. by Kathleen Adams and Kathleen Gillogly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2010 Mimetic Minorities: National Identity and Desire on Thailand’s Fringe. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 17, 2: 108-30.
2004 Mien Alter-Natives in Thai Modernity. Anthropological Quarterly 77, 3: 673-704.
2004 Moving House: Migration and the Place of the Household on the Thai Periphery. Pp. 206-232 in The Society of Siam: Selected Articles for the Siam Society’s Centenary, ed. by Christopher Baker. Bangkok: The Siam Society (reprint of item from 1999).
2003 Pedestrian Politics: The Social Focus of Founders, Migration, and Ritual. Pp. 227-249 in Founders’ Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Polity, and Identity, ed. by Nicola Tannenbaum and Cornelia Kammerer. New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monographs.
2003 Encyclopedic Yao in Thailand. Asian Ethnicity 4, 2:295-301.
2002 (Nora A. Taylor and Hjorleifur Jonsson) Other Attractions in Vietnam. Asian Ethnicity 3, 2: 233-48.
2001 Does the House Hold? History and the Shape of Mien (Yao) Society. Ethnohistory 48, 4: 613-54.
2001 A Regional Approach to Thailand: Reflections on the writings of A. Thomas Kirsch. Journal of the Siam Society 89, 1&2:100-115.
2001 Cultural Clashes. Far Eastern Economic Review May 10: 75.
2000 Traditional Tribal What? Sports, Culture, and the State in the Northern Hills of Thailand. Pp. 219-45 in Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples: Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif, ed. by Jean Michaud. London: Curzon Press.
2000 Yao Minority Identity and the Location of Difference in the South China Borderlands. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 65, 1: 56-82.
2000 Yao Collectibles. Journal of the Siam Society 88, 1&2: 222-31.
1998 Forest Products and Peoples: Upland Groups, Thai Polities, and Regional Space. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 13 (1): 1-37.
1997 Cultural Priorities and Projects: Health and Social Dynamics in Northeast Cambodia. Pp. 536-567 in Development or Domestication? Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia, ed. by Don McCaskill and Ken Kampe. Chiangmai: Silkworm Books.
1997 Heimsmynd og hundraðmetrahlaup [World View and a 100 Meter Race]. Pp. 129-140 in Við og Hinir: Rannsóknir í Mannfræði, ed. by Gísli Pálsson, Haraldur Ólafsson, and Sigríður D. Kristmundsdóttir. Reykjavik: The Anthropological Institute, University of Iceland.
1996 Rhetorics and Relations: Tai States, Forests, and Upland Groups. Pp.166-200 in State Power and Culture in Thailand, ed. by E. Paul Durrenberger. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monographs, 44.
1996 Healthy Houses: Perspective on Well-Being in Rural Cambodia. World Health Forum: An International Journal of Health Development 17 (4): 360-62.
Also published as Un habitat sain: une certaine conception du bien-etre au Cambodge rural. Forum mondial de la Sante 17 (4): 390-393; and as Casas saludables: vision del bienestar en la Camboya rural. Foro mundial de la salud 17 (4): 391-394.