Publications

BOOKS

• 1984 Una Paz Incierta: Historia y Cultura de las Comunidades Aguarunas Frente al Impacto de la Carretera Marginal.  Lima, Peru: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica.
• 1986 Tsewa’s Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society.  Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.  [Now distributed by University of Alabama Press.]
• 1991 War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon. Berkeley: University of California Press. Co-authored with Eduardo Fernández.   [Spanish translation: Guerra de sombras: La lucha por la utopía en la Amazonía peruana, 2nd edition, 2024.  Lima: Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación.]
• 1997 The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• 2003 Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• 2014  Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People (Harvard University Press).  German edition: Stromaufwärts: Das bewegte Leben eines Amazonasvolks, trans. Laura Su Bischoff (Konstanz University Press, 2015).

ARTICLES (CLICKING ON LINK WILL DOWNLOAD PDF OR, IN A FEW CASES, TAKE YOU TO AN ABSTRACT IF ARTICLE IS BEHIND A PAY WALL)

• 1978  “From the Hero’s Bones: Three Aguaruna Hallucinogens and Their Uses.” In: Richard I. Ford (ed.), The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers No. 67, pp. 118-36.
• 1980  “Aguaruna Jívaro Gardening Magic in the Alto Río Mayo, Peru.”  Ethnology 19 (2): 169-90.  [with Margaret L. Van Bolt]
• 1984   “The Role of Words in Aguaruna Hunting Magic.”  American Ethnologist 11: 545-58.
• 1986   “Power, Gender, and the Social Meaning of Aguaruna Suicide.”  Man 21: 311-28.
• 1987   “Ropes of Sand: Order and Imagery in Aguaruna Dreams.”  In: Barbara Tedlock (ed.), Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series.  New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 154-170.
• 1988    “Shamanism and its Discontents.”  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2: 102-120.  [Reprinted as “El malestar del chamanismo” in Amazonía Peruana 19: 63-88, Lima, 1991; also reprinted in E. D. Whitaker, ed., Cross-cultural Comparison in Medical Anthropology, NY: Prentice Hall, 2005.]
• 1991    “Beyond Resistance: A Comparative Study of Utopian Renewal in Amazonia.”  Ethnohistory 38 (4): 388-413.  [Reprinted with adaptations in Anna Roosevelt (ed.), Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 287-311, 1994.]
• 1992  “Tribe and State in a Frontier Mosaic: The Asháninka of Eastern Peru.”  In: R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead (eds.), War in the Tribal Zone: The Impact of Expanding States on Indigenous Warfare. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 175-197.  [with E. Fernández]
• 1993   “Facing the State, Facing the World: Amazonia’s Native Leaders and the New Politics of Identity.”  L’Homme 126-128, 33 (2-4): 311-330.
• 1996  “On Resisting Resistance.”  American Anthropologist 98(4): 729-735.
• 1997   “Thinking About Magic.”  In: Stephen D. Glazier (ed.), Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook,  pp. 121-136.   Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• 1998   “Can Culture be Copyrighted?”  Current Anthropology, 39 (2): 193-222 (includes comments and reply). [Reprinted many times, most recently in Barbara Miller, ed., Sociocultural Anthropology: Critical and Primary Sources (London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
• 1999   “The New Alienists: Healing Shattered Selves at Century’s End.”  In: George E. Marcus (ed.), Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, pp. 137-156. Late Editions 6: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• 1999    “3 Selves @ Y2K.”  Psychohistory Review 27(2): 85-94.  Special Issue: “The Self in the Year 2000,” Michael Flynn, ed.
• 2001    “Worlds Overturned: Gender-Inflected Religious Movements in Melanesia and the Amazon.”   Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method.  Thomas Gregor and Donald Tuzin, eds.  Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 207-220.
• 2002   “Moving Toward the Light: Self, Other, and the Politics of Experience in New Age Narratives.”  Stories of Change: Narratives and Social Movements. Joseph E. Davis, ed.  Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 101-122.
• 2004   “Heritage as Property.”  Property In Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy, Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey, eds.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 49-68.
• 2005   “Heritage Trouble: Recent Work on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Property.”  International Journal of Cultural Property 12: 40-61.
• 2006   “NAGPRA from the Middle Distance: Legal Puzzles and Unintended Consequences.”  In John Henry Merryman, ed., Art, Imperialism, and Restitution.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 193-217.  [Co-authored with Margaret M. Bruchac.]
• 2006   “Why Property and Democracy Are Not Always Allies.”  St. Louis University Law Review 50(3): 843-849.
• 2006    Война символов: Майкл Браун об аборигенных народах и интеллектуальном праве, Критическая Масса (Critical Mass), Vol. 4, 2006.  [Translation of Chapter 3 of Who Owns Native Culture?]
• 2007   “Sovereignty’s Betrayals.”  In Orin Starn and Marisol de la Cadena, eds., Indigenous Experience Today.  Oxford: Berg, pp. 171-195.
• 2008   “Cultural Relativism 2.0.”  Current Anthropology 49 (3): 363-383. [Reprinted in Spanish as “Relativismo cultural 2.0” in F. Cruces Villalobos and B. Pérez Galán, eds., Textos de Antropología Contemporánea, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 2010.]  If you don’t have access to Current Anthropology via your institutional library, contact me for a full-text copy.
• 2008   “The Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies,” Cultural Anthropology 23 (2), co-authored with Christopher Kelty, Michael M.J. Fischer, Alex “Rex” Golub, Jason Baird Jackson, Kimberly Christen, and Tom Boellstorff.
• 2009   “Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property.” In James Cuno, ed., Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 145-164.
• 2010    “A Tale of Three Buildings: Certifying Virtue in the New Moral Economy.”  American Ethnologist 37 (4): 741-752.  (If you don’t have access to this journal via AnthroSource or your institutional library, contact me for a full-text copy.)
• 2010  “‘In Defense of Property’: An Exchange”  International Journal of Cultural Property 17: 569-598.  Consists of comment by Michael F. Brown (pp. 569-579) and reply by Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal, and Angela R. Riley (pp.581-598).  Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley’s contribution included with authors’ kind permission.
• 2012  “Towards Sacred Androgyny,”  In Paul Heelas, ed., Spirituality and the Modern World, Vol. 3.  London: Routledge.
• 2014  “Антропологического форума”. Содержание вы можете найти на сайте журнала: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/05/. English version, “Cultural Property, Control of Meaning, and Paths to Recognition,” available here.
• 2014  “The Perils of Heritage Management.”  In Constantine Sandis, ed., Cultural Heritage Ethics (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers), 2014.  [Link is to entire downloadable book.  The specific article can be downloaded here.]

SELECTED ARTICLES IN NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• 1982   “Art of Darkness.”  The Progressive 46 (8): 20-21. [Describes conflict between Werner Herzog and Aguaruna Indians during filming of Fitzcarraldo.]
• 1989   “Dark Side of the Shaman.”  Natural History, November, p. 8-10.  [Reprinted many times.]
• 2006   “Faut-il breveter les cultures en danger?” Sciences Humaines (Paris), March.<
• 2014    “The Capriciousness of Fame,”  Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March.
• 2015  “If Not Us, Then Who? A Case for Paying it Forward in Anthropology,”  Anthropology News, September 2015.