Michael Peletz
Publications
Books
Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times. New York and London: Routledge, 2009.
Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2007.
Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1996.
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. Edited with Aihwa Ong
A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988.
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books
“Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times”. Current Anthropology 47(2): 309-340, 2006.
“Structure, Cultural Logic, and Transformational Dynamics in the Social Organization of Unstratified Societies: The Work of Raymond C. Kelly”. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Vol. 16 [Special Issue, “Retrospectives: Works and Lives of Michigan Anthropologists”]:66-105,2006. Co-authored with Bruce M. Knauft.
“Islamic Justice, State Law, and Cultural Politics in Indonesia: A Review Article”. Indonesia 80:161-176, 2005.
“The King is Dead; Long Live the Queen!”. American Ethnologist 31(1): 39-41, 2005.
“Islam and the Cultural Politics of Legitimacy: Malaysia in the Aftermath of September 11th.” In Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. Robert W. Hefner, ed. Pp. 240-272. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005.
“Discourses of Opposition to Marriage Equality”. Anthropology News 45(6):23-24, 2004.
“Reinscribing ‘Asian (Family) Values’: Subject Making, Nation Building, and Judicial Process in Malaysia's Islamic Courts”. Occasional Papers of the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame: Indiana, 2003.
“Judicial Process and Dilemmas of Legitimacy and Sovereignty: The Malaysian Case in Comparative Perspective”. In Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond. John D. Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds. Pp. 221-258. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002.
"Ambivalence in Kinship Since the 1940s". In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds. Pp. 413-443. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
“Comment” [on ‘Anthropology and Modernity’, by Joel Kahn]. Current Anthropology, 42(5) :668-669l, 2001.
"Comparative and Historical Notes on the 'Great Transformation' among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau". In Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, Robert W. Hefner, ed. Pp.173-200. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
"'Ordinary Muslims' and Muslim Resurgents in Contemporary Malaysia: Notes on an Ambivalent Relationship". In Islam in an Era of Nation States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia. Robert W. Hefner and Patricia Horvatich, eds. Pp. 231-273. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
"Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology". Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 343-372, 1995.
"Introduction". In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds. Pp. l-l8. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995. Co-authored with Aihwa Ong.
"Ambivalent Hearts and the Arts of Well-Being in Island Southeast Asia". Reviews in Anthropology 23(3): 143-156, 1994.
“Neither Reasonable Nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society." Cultural Anthropology 9(2): l33-l76, 1994.
[Reprinted in Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds. Pp. 76-l23. Berkeley: University of California Press, l995.]
"Comparative Perspectives on Kinship and Cultural Identity in Negeri Sembilan". Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 9(1): l-53, 1994.
“Knowledge, Power, and Personal Misfortune in a Malay Context". In Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. C. W. Watson and Roy F. Ellen, eds. Pp. l49-l77. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
“Sacred Texts and Dangerous Words: The Politics of Law and Cultural Rationalization in Malaysia ". Comparative Studies in Society and History 35(l):66-109, 1993.
"Poisoning, Sorcery, and Healing Rituals in Negeri Sembilan". Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 144(1):132-164, 1988.
"The Exchange of Men in Nineteenth-Century Negeri Sembilan (Malaya)", American Ethnologist 14 (3): 449-469, 1987.
“Female Heirship and the Autonomy of Women in Negeri Sembilan, West Malaysia." In Research in Economic Anthropology: A Research Annual, Vol. 8, Barry L. Isaac, ed. Pp. 61-101. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1987.
"Siblingship and Social Structure in Negeri Sembilan: Perspectives from Myth, History and the Present." In Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra. Lynn L. Thomas and Franz Von Benda- Beckmann, eds. Pp. 73-109. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 71. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies/Ohio University Press, 1985.
"Moral and Political Economies in Rural Southeast Asia: A Review Article." Comparative Studies in Society and History 25(4):731-739, 1983.