Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities (Spring 2004)
EXPERTISE
Anthropology of knowledge, hope, utopia and anti-utopia, evidential practices, ethnography and historical method, anthropology and philosophy, anthropology of capitalism, social studies of finance, anthropology of religion; Christianity, gift and exchange, material culture, popular culture, Fiji, Japan.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
An ethnographic study of the members of the Japanese financial derivatives unit of one major Japanese securities firm, focusing on their conceptions of risk, temporality and the epistemological consequences of different forms of engagement with economic theory.
RELATED LINKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Economy of Dreams (book manuscript in progress).
The Method of Hope. Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming, 2004.
The Materiality of Finance Theory. In Daniel Miller, ed., Materiality.
Failure as an Endpoint (with Annelise Riles). In Aihwa Ong and Stephen
Collier, eds, Blackwell Companion to Global Anthropology. Oxford:
Blackwell, forthcoming, 2004.
Delegating Closure. In Sally Merry and Donald Brenneis, eds, Law and
Empire in the Pacific: Intersections of Culture and Law. Sante Fe: School
of American Research Press, forthcoming, 2004.
Hopeful Commitment (Book review essay on Jed Rubenfeld, Freedom and Time:
A Theory of Constitutional Self-Government). Yale Journal of Law and the
Humanities 15(2), forthcoming, 2003.
The Temporalities of the Market. American Anthropologist 105(2): 255-
265, 2003.
Kaikaku to kibo: shoken toreda tachi no tenshoku [Reform and hope:
securities traders' career change]. In Kane to jinsei [Money and
life]. Toru Konma, ed. Pp. 268-280. Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 2002.
Faith and Its Fulfillment: Agency, Exchange and the Fijian Aesthetics
of Completion. American Ethnologist 27(1): 31-51, 2000.
