* 1982 ''Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World'' (University of California Press, 1982; Duke University Press, 1992)
* 1986 ''Writing cultureCulture: the poeticsPoetics and politicsPolitics of ethnography''Ethnography, (red.edited zwith [[George E. Marcus]] (University of California Press, 1986)
* 1988 ''The Predicament of Culture.: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art'' (Harvard University Press, 1988)