Cultural values, birth and parenting
From July 2021 to June 2025, I will be running an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, FT200100346 Cultural values, birth and…
Inalienable chickens
In 2018, I travelled to Laos for fieldwork in Kandon village accompanied by my husband Ed Annand (infectious disease epidemiologist…
Interview on ‘More than Human Worlds’
The amazing Sophie Chao recently asked me some questions for her More than Human Worlds site. We talked about desire, fieldwork, why…
Interview on New Books Network: Projectland
I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Natali Pearson, of Sydney University’s Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. We talked about Lao…
Ethnographies of the State
Recently, I was asked to present a “meet the author” talk to some students at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Social…
Stone Masters
About Stone Masters This book examines stone veneration in mainland Southeast Asia. The topic is vast and is itself but…