Forthcoming 2023
Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Western Scientific Practice – and Vice Versa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2022
Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Transculturations. Chicago: HAU Books/University of Chicago Press.

2022
“Wittgenstein Among the Santeros: Finding my Feet with Tomás” forthcoming in Nils Ole Bubandt and Thomas Schwartz Wentzer (eds.) Philosophy on Fieldwork. New York: Routledge, pp. 482-97, 2022.

2021
“Unhinged: On Ethnographic Games of Doubt and Certainty” Social Anthropology 30,1: 74-90, 2022.

2021
(with Joan Bestard and Jaume Mascaró, eds.) Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Transculturations. Special issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11, 1.

2021
”History and Anthropology” in: Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. https://www.bloomsburyhistorytheorymethod.com/article?docid=b-9781350970...

2021
“Afterword: Things and the Imponderabilia of Actual Life in Cuba” in María A. Cabrera Arús (ed.) A Material Turn in Cuban Scholarship. Special issue of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30, 2: 311-322, 2021 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569325.2021.1937966

2019
The Varieties of Historical Experience. (with Charles Stewart, eds.) Routledge Press.

2018
Molecular Biological Ambivalences. Somatosphere.

2018
(with Paul C. Johnson) Afro-Latin American Religions In George Reid Andrews and Alejandro de la Fuente, eds., Cambridge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies.

2017
Translator's Introduction. In G. Da Coll, ed., The Mythology in Our Own Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough. University of Chicago Press.

2016
(w/ Charles Stewart) Towards an Anthropology of History. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 16(1): 207-36.

2016
The Cuban Factors of Humanity/Los factores cubanos de la humanidad. Anthropological Theory 16:3-21

2014
On Talking Past Each Other, Productively: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, Twenty Years On. In I. Kummels, et al., eds., Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 57-75.

2014
The Eyamba of North Fairmount Avenue, the Wizard of Menlo Park, and the Dialectics of Ensoniment: An Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask. In P.C. Johnson, ed., Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Black Atlantic Religion. University of Chicago Press, pp. 47-78, 288-93.

2014
Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility. In D. Espirito Santo and R.L. Blanes, eds., The Social Life of Spirits. University of Chicago Press, pp. 218-39, 258-63.

2013
The Cooking of History: How Not to Study "Afro"-"Cuban" "Religion." Winner of the 2014 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. University of Chicago Press.

2013
Mixed Blessings and Sorrowful Mysteries: Second Thoughts about 'Hybridity." Current Anthropology. 54:1-20.

2013
Signal and Noise: Digging up the Dead in Archaeology and Afro-Cuban Palo Monte. Archaeological Journal from Cambridge. Vol.28: 115-131.

2012
Other Powers: Tylor’s Principle, Father Williams’ Temptations and the Power of Banality. In D. Paton & M. Forde, eds., Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. Duke University Press, 316-340.

2011
(ed. w/ F. Scarano), The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. University of Chicago Press.

2011
From Enchantment by Science to Socialist Sorcery: The Cuban Republic and its Savage Slot. In R. Sansi-Roca & L.N. Parés, eds., Sorcery in the Black Atlantic. University of Chicago Press, 121-144.

2011
Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories (PGH). In K. Schram, D. Skinner & R. Rottenburg, eds., Identity Politics After DNA. Oxford: Berghan Books, 193-211.

2010
Ekpe/Abakuá in Middle Passage: Time, Space, and Units of Analysis in African American Historical Anthropology. In A. Apter & L. Derby (eds.) Activating the Past: Historical Memory in the Black Atlantic. London: Cambridge Scholars Press.

2010
Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memorialization. In S. Radstone & B. Schwartz, eds., Memory: History, Theories, Debates. Fordham University Press.

2009
Intangible Cultural Property, Semiotic Ideology, and the Vagaries of Ethnoculinary Recognition. African Arts. 42(4): 54-61.

2008
The Cuban Republic and Its Wizards. In T. Kirsch & B. Turner, eds., Permutations of Order: Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties. Ashgate, 67-84.

2008
On Predications of Africanity. In S. Palmié, ed., Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions. Leiden: Brill, 1-37.

2007
Ecué‘s Atlantic: An Essay in Method. Journal of Religion in Africa. 37(2): 207-315.

2007
On the C-Word, Again: From Colonial to Postcolonial Semantics. In C. Stewart, ed., Creolization and Diaspora: Historical, Ethnographic, and Theoretical Perspectives. Walnut Creek: Left Shore Press, 66-83.

2007
Is there a Model in the Muddle? ‘Creolization’ in African American History and Anthropology. In C. Stewart, ed., Creolization and Diaspora: Historical, Ethnogrpahic, and Theorietical Perspectives. Walnut Creek: Left Shore Press, 178-200.

2007
Rejoinder: Genomic Moonliighting, Jewish Cyborgs, and Peircian Abduction. American Ethnologist. 34: 243-249.

2007
Genomics, Divination, “Racecraft”. American Ethnologist. 34: 203-220.

2006
Thinking with Ngangas: Reflections on Embodiment and the Limits of ‘Objectively Necessary Appearances’. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 48: 852-86.

2006
The View from Itía Ororó Kande. Social Anthropology. 14: 99-118.

2006
Creolizaton and its Discontents. Annual Reviews in Anthropology. 35: 433-56.

2005
Ackee and Saltfish vs. Amalá con Quimbombó?: Sidney Mintz’ Contribution to the Historical Anthropology of African American Cultures. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 91(2): 89-122.

2005
Santería Grand Slam: Afro-Cuban Religious Studies and the Study of Afro-Cuban Religion. New West Indian Guide. 79, 281-300.

2005
The Cultural Work of Yoruba-Globalization. In T. Falola, ed., Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of John Peel. Chapel Hill: Carolina Academic Press, 43-81.

2004
Fascinans or Tremendum? Permutations of the State, the Body, and the Divine in Late-Twentieth Century Havana. New West Indian Guide 78:229-268.

2002
The Color of the Gods: Notes on a Question Better Left Unasked. In B. Ostendorf, ed. Transnational America. Heidelberg: C. Winter, pp. 163-175.

2002
Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Duke University Press.

2001
Of Pharisees and Snark Hunters: Afro-Cuban Religions as an Object of Knowledge. Culture and Religion. 2:3-19.

1998
“Fernando Ortiz and the Cooking of History” Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 24, pp. 353-373.

1998
Conventionalization, Distortion and Plagiarism in the Historiography of Afro-Caribbean Religion in New Orleans. In W. Binder, ed., Creoles and Cajuns. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 315-344.

1996
Which Center, Whose Margin? Notes Towards an Archaeology of U.S. Supreme Court Case 91-948, 1993. In O. Harris, ed., Inside and Outside the Law. London: Routledge, pp. 184-209.

1995
The Taste for Human Commodities: Experiencing the Atlantic System. In S. Palmié, ed., Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Knoxville: U Tennessee Press, pp. 40-54.

1995
Against Syncretism: Africanizing and Cubanizing Discourses in North American Òrìsà-Worship. In R. Fardon, ed., Counterworks: Managing Diverse Knowledge. London: Routledge, pp. 73-104.

1993
Ethnogenetic Processes and Cultural Transfer in Caribbean Slave Populations. In W. Binder, ed., Slavery in the Americas. Würzburg: Königshauser & Neumann, pp. 337-364.

1993
Conceptualizing Cultural Flow: Perspectives on Globalization. In R. Kroes, et al., eds. Cultural Transmissions and Receptions. Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 271-301.