2015 Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

2011 Political Crime and the Memory of Loss: Events of Closure, Rites of Repetition, and Accountability (University of Indiana Press)

2009 Being There: The Fieldwork Encounter and The Making of Truth (co-editor Abdellah Hammoudi) (Berkeley: University of California Press)

2007 Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo (Princeton: Princeton University Press)

2004 Death of the Father: An Anthropology of The End in Political Authority, ed. (New York: Berghahn Press)

1992 Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

1997 Subversions of International Order Studies in the Political Anthropology of Culture (SUNY Press)

1997 Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist States (Princeton University Press)

Articles

2017 “Afterword: Further Questions about the Global Care Chain,” Ethics and Social Welfare 11 (3): 296-303.

2016 “Foreword: ‘Recording Uncertainty and Disorder on the Ethnographic Scene.’” In Comparing Impossibilities: Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore. Sally Falk Moore, pp. xv.-xxx. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

2016 “Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and Today,” in The State We’re In, eds. Henrietta Moore and Nick Long, pp. 97-121. (New York: Berghahn Press).*

2015 “Anthropology and the Security State,” (co-author Joseph Masco) American Anthropologist 117 (4): 781-794.*

2014 Containment in Interlocution-based Fieldwork Encounters: Thought, Theory, and Transformative Thinking, Anthropological Theory 14 (4): 442-461.*

2014 “Schwimmbecken und Pornokinos. Wovon wollen Töchter und Söhne sich eigentlich befreien?” Mittelweg 36 23 (3): 79-88.

2014 “Abandonment and Victory in Relations with the Dead,” Governing the Dead, ed. Finn Stepputat, pp. 227-249. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

2014 State, Anthropological Aspects, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (London: Elsevier Science Ltd.)

2013 "Intimacy, Disclosure, and Marital Normativity," Intimacies: A new world of relational life, eds. Alan Frank, Patricia Ticineto Clough and Steven Seidman, pp. 117-129. (New York: Routledge Press)

2012 "Und nach den Tyrannen? Macht, Verwandtschaft und Gemeinschaft in der Arabellion," La Lettre International 98 (Fall): 33-48 (translated by Martin Zillinger and Daniele Saracino)

2012 "Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn," A Companion to Border Studies, ed. Thomas Wilson and Hastings Donan, pp. 119-136. (N.Y.: Wiley)

2012 Incest, the Child, and the Despotic Father," Current Anthropology, Vol. 53 (2) (April):181-203, with commentary and response

2011 "Daydreaming, Intimacy, and the Intersubjective Third in Fieldwork Encounters in Syria," American Ethnologist 38 (2):234-248 * (2013 Boyer Prize Winner, Society for Psychological Anthropology)

2010 "European Rituals of Initiation and the Production of Men," Social Anthropology 18 (3):289-301*

2010 "Mutual Subject-Discovery in Syrian Encounters," in Kontaktzonen, ed. Christoph Wulf and Gerald Blaschke, pp. 120-136. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag)

2009 "Dozenten-'Evaluierung' und die Universität. Partizipation und Rechenschaft in den Demokratien der USA, Großbritaniens und Österreichs (Teacher 'Evaluations' and the University: Participation and Accountability in the US, the UK, and Austrian Democracies)," in Erziehung und Demokratie: Europäische, islamische und arabische Länder im Dialog, ed. Christoph Wulf, Fathi Tikri, Jacques Poulain, pp. 253-270. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag)

2009 "Veiling and Women's Intelligibility," Cardozo Law Review 30: 6: 2745-2760*

2009 "Terror, Compassion, and the Limits of Identification," in Violence: Anthropological Encounters, ed. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, pp. 119-134. (London: Berg Publishers)*

2008 "A Scrap of Cloth," London Review of Books 30 (24): 13-14*

2007 "The State of War Crimes following the Israeli-Hezbollah War," Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 25 (2): 274-289*

2007 "On Money and the Memory of Loss," in Restitution and Memory: Historical Remembrance and Material Restitution in Europe, ed. Dan Diner and Gotthart Wunberg, (New York: Berghahn Books)*

2007 "North Korea, South Korea: One Korea and the Relevance of German Unification," 344-364, in The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts, ed. Eyal Ben-Ari, Smita Tewari Jassal. (N.Y.: Sage)

2006 "Postscript: Reflections on Totemism Tomorrow: Horse Breeds and Breeding in the United States and "France," 351-365. And reprint of "Race, Ethnicity, Species, Breed: Totemism and Horse Breed Classification in America," 319-350, in Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, ed. Aram Yengoyan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press)*

2006 "Kiss Daddy! A Syrian son longs to be an American," Granta 93 (Spring): 185-200

2005 “Public Apologies as Performative Redress,” Johns Hopkins SAIS Review of International Affairs 25 (2): 53-66, special issue “Pride and Guilt in International Relations”

2005 “The Weather Where We Are (Sri Lanka),” Granta 91 (Fall): 227-233.

2003 “Is The United States Europe’s Other? American Ethnologist 30 (4): 487-507, with commentaries by Ostendorf, Rabinow, Schiller, Bowman, Ickstadt, and my rejoinder “Someone won the war!”

2002 "Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing: Listening, Retribution, and Affiliation," Public Culture 14(2): 281-304.* Commentary and Response to Laura Nader, Richard Falk, Richard Wilson, and Seven Sampson, “Why Reconciliation: A Response to Critics,” Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 197-206

2001 "Caring and To Be Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality," 29-46, in The Ethics of Kinship, ed. James Faubion. (New Jersey: Rowland and Littlefield)

2000 “Politics without a Head: Is the Love Parade a New Form of Political Identification?” (co-author Stefan Senders), Cultural Anthropology 15 (2):294-317*

1997 "Europeanization," Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 487-514 (co-author Nick Fowler)

1996 "Until Death Do Us Part: Marriage/Death in Anthropological Discourse," featured article: issues in debate, American Ethnologist 23 (2): 215-238*

1992 “State, Territory, and Identity Formation in the Postwar Berlins,” Cultural Anthropology 7(1): 44-61

1988 "Race, Ethnicity, Species, Breed: Totemism and Horse Breed Classification in America," Comparative Studies in Society and History 30 (1): 25-51