Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• The Act of Reading Aloud: Animating the Neoliberal Speaking Subject in Post-Suharto Indonesia.” Forthcoming In Discourse and Society 31(5) (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926520914688

• The “Tiny Hand” of Donald Trump and the Counterpolitics of Typographic Parody, co-authored with Alexandra Powell Bugden. In Signs and Society 7(2): 217-244, (2019).

• Discovering by Surrendering: For an Epistemology of Serendipity Against the Neoliberal Ethics of Accountability. In Antropologia, 6 (1): 163-183, (2019). 

• Material Words: The Aesthetic Grammar of Toraja Textiles, Carvings, and Ritual Language. In Journal of Material Culture, 25 (2): 167-195, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183519858378

•  From the womb to the tree: Child rearing practices and beliefs among the Toraja of Sulawesi, co-authored withToke Hoppenbrouwers and Stanislaus Sandarupa. In Wacana 18(3): 658-691, (2017).

•  The Grammar of Politics: Morality, Agency, and Voice Selection in Toraja Political Discourse. In Journal of Anthropological Linguistics 58(4): 411-441, (2016).

• Is ergativity always a marker of agency? Toraja and Samoan grammar of action and the contribution of emancipatory pragmatics to social theory. In Applied Linguistics Review. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 1: 193-220, (2010). 

•  Rice intimacies. Reflections on the ‘house’ in Upland Sulawesi and South China, co-authored with Gonçalo Santos. In Archiv für Völkerkunde (2007-2008/57-58): 37-64, special Issue “Constructing the Future – Remembering the Past. Houses and Architecture in Southeast Asia”, guest editor Gabriele Weichart. Vienna: Archiv für Völkerkunde, (2010).  

• Etnicitá e Linguaggio tra i Toraja di Sulawesi (Indonesia)[“Ethnicity and Language among the Toraja (Indonesia)”].InRIPLA Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics/Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, VII (3/2007): 147-169, (2008). 

• Words on the Lips and Meanings in the Stomach: Ideologies of Unintelligibility and Theories of Metaphor in Toraja Ritual Speech. In Text and Talk27(4): 533-557, special issue on Unintelligibility in Ritual Speech, guest editor Kristina Wirtz, (2007).

•  La disciplina delle emozioni tra introspezione e performance: pratiche e discorsi del controllo a Toraja (Indonesia), (“The Discipline of Emotions between Introspection and Performance: Practices and Narratives of Control in Toraja (Indonesia)”), coauthored with Doug Hollan. In Antropologia, special issue on the Anthropology of Emotions, Meltemi, Roma, V (6): 37-71, (2005).

• Diversity in Unity: Multiple Strategies of a Unifying Rhetoric. The Case of Resemanticisation of Toraja Rituals: from “Wasteful Pagan Feasts” into “Modern Auctions”, in JAI (“Indonesian Anthropological Journal”), Jakarta, XXVII 72: 38-58, (2003).

•  Il turismo a Tana Toraja: un contesto per molti discorsi (“Tourism in Tana Toraja: A Context for Many Discourses”). In Afriche e Orienti, Bologna, III (3/4): 60-64, (2001).

Chapters in books [peer-reviewed]

• “Persuasion.” The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. (Forthcoming, July 2020). 

• “Hardly Speaking: Ethnographic Rapport and the Ordinary Ethics of Host-Guest Interaction in Upland Sulawesi (Indonesia).” In Zane Goebel, ed., From rapport to role alignment and belonging. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming, 2020).

• “‘Milan, a place to be’: Expo 2015 and the chronotopic rebranding of Italy’s moral capital.” In Language and Country Branding Research Companion, Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Woydack (eds.), Routledge. (Forthcoming, 2020).

• “From ‘Top down’ to ‘Bottom up’ New Order’s Vertical Synchronicity and the Vintage Aesthetics of the Margins in Post-Suharto Political Oratory.” In Contact Talk: The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries, Zane Goebel, Debbie Cole, and Howie Manns (eds.),  Routledge, pp. 72-89, (2019).

•  “The Fetish of Verbal Inflection: Lusophonic Fantasies and Ideologies of Linguistic and Racial Purity in Postcolonial East Timor.” In Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions, Sanja Bahun and Dusan Radunovic (eds.), Routledge, pp. 131-157, (2016).

•  “Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja.” In Learning Religion. Anthropological Approaches, David Berliner & Ramon Sarró (eds.), Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York, pp. 141-60, (2008).

•  "Agenti vulnerabili: agency, intenzionalità e carisma nell'oratoria politica a Toraja (Indonesia)" ("Vulnerable Agents: Agency, Intentionality and Charisma in Toraja political oratory (Indonesia)"), in Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale("Agency and Language: Ethnotheories of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Social Action"), Aurora Donzelli & Alessandra Fasulo (eds.), Meltemi, Rome, pp. 85- 110, (2007).

• “Introduzione, parte I: Ripensando all’agency a partire dallo studio del linguaggio” (“Introduction part I: Rethinking agency from the point of view of language”), in Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale("Agency and Language: Ethnotheories of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Social Action"), Aurora Donzelli & Alessandra Fasulo (eds.), Meltemi, Rome, pp. 11-27, (2007). 

•  "Pratiche comunicative tra i Toraja di Sulawesi" (“Communicative Practices Among the Toraja of Sulawesi”), in V. Matera, Etnografia della comunicazione. Teorie e pratiche dell’interazione sociale, Carocci editore, Roma, pp.  97- 150, (2002). 

Articles and Book Chapters [non peer-reviewed]

• “Preface” to Entering Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Labyrinth. Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation (ed.). Confine. Pp.9-21, (2017).

• “Prefazione” a Ingresso nel Labirinto. Raccolta di testi critici sull’opera ambientale di Arnaldo Pomodoro. A cura della Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. Editore Confine, pp. 91-21, (2016).

•  Crossover Politics: Spatiotemporal images of the nation-state and the vintage aesthetics of the margins in Post-Suharto political oratory.  Transnational neoliberal democracy and the vintage aesthetics of the margins in Post-Suharto political oratory. In Tilburg Working Papers in Culture Studies, special Issue“Margins, Hubs, and Peripheriesin a Decentralizing Indonesia” 162: 77-101, (2016). 

• Come convertire le anime modernizzando i rituali: Missionari calvinisti, “spreco pagano” e le aste della carne tra i toraja di Sulawesi. In Quaderni Asiatici. Centro di Cultura Italia Asia "Guglielmo Scalise", 80: 65-116, (2007). 

•  L’Islam, la differenza e l’erotico: una storia indonesiana Goenawan Mohamad a Milano (co-authored with Giuliana Malpezzi). In Quaderni Asiatici. Centro di Cultura Italia Asia "Guglielmo Scalise", Milano, 79: 17-54, (2007).

Edited Volumes

• Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale("Agency and Language: Ethnotheories of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Social Action"), Aurora Donzelli & Alessandra Fasulo (eds.), Meltemi, Rome, (2007).

Co-authored Books

• Entering Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Labyrinth. With Gino Fienga and Federico Maria Giani. Confine. (2017).

• Ingresso nel Labirinto. Raccolta di testi critici sull’opera ambientale di Arnaldo Pomodoro. Editore Confine (2016).

Book Reviews

• "Political Oratory and Cartooning: Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar by Jennifer Jackson, in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology24.3: 370-372, (2014). 

• "Power, Prestige and Bilingualism International Perspectives on Elite Bilingual Education" by Anne-Marie de Mejia, in Multilingua25 (3): 351-357, (2006).

• “Acting Authoritatively; How Authority is Expressed through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo”by Kenneth Sillander, in Bijdragen tot Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Leiden, 161 (4): 528-9, (2005).