Books

Monographs and edited volumes.

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.