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Forthcoming

• On Discourses of Kingship in Contemporary Africa: What Role the Hero and the Hero-Turned Villain? Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.

2009

• A Wormhole to Kroeber's Whirlpool: Revisiting Cultural Configurations in Light of Complexity and Assemblage Theory. In Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, Eds. Histories of Anthropology Annual. Volume V. 5:52-76. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press).
• The Nature of Flag Power: How Flags Entail Dominance, Subordination, and Social Solidarity. Politics and the Life Sciences. 27(2):13-27.

2008

• Synergy, Meshworks, and the Nature of Anthropology: A Teaching Perspective. Southern Anthropologist. 33(1/2):37-50.

2004

• Magic, Miracles, and Marvels in Anthropology. Ethnos. 69(3): 317-340.
• Conservative Critiques of African-American Culture: Anthropological and Philosophical Perspectives on the Claim of False Consciousness. Anthropological Theory. 4(1)89-110

2003

• How Charles Darwin Got Emotional Expression out of South Africa (and the People who Helped Him). Comparative Studies in Society and History. 45(4):815-842.

2002

• Idols of our Tribes? Relativism, Truth, and Falsity in Ethnographic Fieldwork and Cross-Cultural Interaction. Critique of Anthropology. 22(1):7-29.

Online

2010

• Fractured Circles of Race: A Heuristic Model for Teaching about Racial Categorization...Southern Anthropologist. 35(1):1-20.

This paper describes the long feedback relationship between folk models and scientific models of human variation.

2007

• (Revised 2010) Synergy, Evolution, and Culture: An Introduction to the Fields of Anthropology. Online or digital text. National Social Science Press. Available at http://www.nsspress.com/

  This text looks at the various types of anthropology from a naturalistic approach. It discusses anthropology in terms of various emerging levels of complexity--from the realms of basic physical form and biological form to the less tangible realms of cultural and linguistic interaction.

2005

• Political Tokens, Pro-Confederate Ideology, and the Catchy Significance of Formulaic Thought. Quarterly Journal of Ideology. 28(3-4). Online journal.

Presentations

2009

• Culture as Information: Not a Shaky Link but a Stable Connection. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Southern Anthropological Society. Savannah, GA.
• "Ooo Ooo, Aah Aah": People, Bonobos, and Mirrored Projections at the Zoo. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Southern Anthropological Society. Savannah, GA.

2008

• Synergy as a Unifying Concept Across the Subfields of Anthropology: A Teaching Perspective. Paper Presented at the National Technology and Social Science Conference. National Social Science Association. Las Vegas, NV.

2007

• Patterns that Connect: Unifying Themes in the Teaching of Four Fields of Anthropology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. Oxford, Mississippi.

2006

• On Social Theory and the Quest to Understand Serial Killers. Paper presented at Southern Anthropological Society meetings. Pensacola Beach, FL.

2005

• Perspectives on Globalization in Southern Africa: Crime, Power, and Policing in South Africa. Paper presented at the sixth annual Southeast Africanist Network Meeting. Statesboro, GA.