Publications by Steven P. Reyna

Doctoral Thesis

1972 The Costs of Marriage: A Study of Some Factors, Effecting Northwest Barma Fertility. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms

Publication projects in development

1) Settling ‘Accounts with the Night’: Imperialism and War, US Global Warring 1950-2010

2) Further Connections: Brain, Culture and Power.

Books

2011 Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. Co-edited with Andrea Behrends, S. Reyna, and Günther Schlee. New York: Berghahn

2002 Connections: Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology. London: Routledge.

1998 Deadly Developments: War, Capitalism and the Modern State. Co-edited with R.E.Downs. New York: Gordon and Breach.

1994 Studying War, Anthropological Perspectives. Co-edited with R. E. Downs. New York: Gordon and Breach.

1991 The Political Economy of African Famine: The Class and Gender Basis of Hunger. Co-edited with R. E. Downs and D. O. Kerner. New York: Gordon and Breach.

1990 Wars Without End: The Political Economy of a Precolonial African State. Hanover, NH: New England University Press.

1989 Land and Society in Contemporary Africa. R. E. Downs and S. P. Reyna (eds). Hanover, NH: New England University Press.

1980 Sahelian Social Development. S. P. Reyna (ed). United States Agency for International Development: Abidjan, IvoryCoast.

Articles and Book Chapters (accepted for publication)

“Friendship in a World of Force and Power” This article has been accepted for inclusion in a volume concerning friendship edited by Martine Guiscard & Youssouf Diallo to be published by Berghahn.

Articles and Book chapters

1973a "Le Tchad: Présentations du Pays, Developpement économique et Transformations Socio-Demographiques," with C.Bouquet. In Croissance Démographique et Evolution Socio-Economique en Afrique de l'Ouest, J.C. Caldwell (ed). NewYork: The Population Council.

1973b "Pro-Natalisme et Travail des Infants, les Attitudes a L'égard dela Regulation des Naissances et de le Dimension de la Famille au Tchad." In Croissance Démographique et Evolution Socio-Economique en Afrique de l'Ouest, J.C. Caldwell (ed). NewYork: The Population Council.

1975a "Making Do when the Rains Stop: Adjustment of Domestic Structure to Climatic Variation Among the Barma." Ethnology 4: 405-418.

1975b "Age Differential, Marital Instability and Venereal Disease:Factors Affecting Fertility Among the Northwest Barma." In Population and Social Organization, Moni Nag (ed). Chicago: Aldine.

1976a "The Extending Strategy: Regulation of Household Dependency Ratios." Journal of Anthropological Research 32(2):182-198.

1977a "Marriage Payments, Household Structure, and Domestic Labor-Supply Among the Barma of Chad." Africa 47(1): 81-88.

1977b "Waiting for a Demographic Transition in the West African Savanna: Economics and Fertility." In The Persistence of High Fertility, J. Caldwell (ed). Canberra: The Australian National University.

1977c "The Rationality of Divorce: Marital Instability Among the Barma of Chad." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 9(2): 269-287.

1979a "Social Evolution: A Learning Theory Approach." Journal of Anthropological Research. 35(3).

1980a "Introduction." In Sahelian Social Development, S. P. Reyna(ed). USAID: Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

1983a "Dual Class Formation and Agrarian Underdevelopment: An Analysis of the Articulation of Production Relations in Upper Volta." Canadian Journal of African Studie 3(4).

1983b "Current Anthropology Comment: Ivy Papps -- The Roland Determinants of Bride-Price: The Case of a Palestinian Village." With Nancy E. Gratton. Current Anthropology 24(2).

1984a "Chadian Arabs." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, Richard Weekes (ed). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
1984b "Barma." In Richard V. Weekes (ed). Ibid.

1984c "Barma Bridewealth: Socialization and the Reproduction of Labor in a Domestic African Economy." Africa (54) l.

1985a "Bridewealth Revisited: Socialization and the Reproduction of Labor in a Domestic African Economy." Working Papers on Women in Development, Working Paper #80.

1985b "Investment Preference, Stratification and Welfare: Existential Development in the West African Savannah." In Anthropology of Rural Development in West Africa, M. Horowitz and T. Painter (eds). Boulder, CO: Westview.

1986 "Wars without End: Reproduction of Class Relations through Predatory Accumulation in Pre-Colonial Bagirmi." In Toward the Reconstruction of Political Economy, Richard England (ed). New York: Praeger.

1988a "The Emergence of Land Concentration in the West African Savanna." American Ethnologist 14(3).

1988b "The Development of Inequality: An Analysis of the Articulation of Production Relations in Upper Volta." In Power and Poverty Development and Development Projects in the Third World, Donald W. Atwood, T. Bruneau and John Galaty (eds). Boulder, CO: Westview.
1988c "Patcha's Place: The Emergence of Land Concentration in the West African Savanna." In African Food Production, Sol Katz and Rebecca Huss-Ashmore (eds). New York: Gordon and Breach.
1989 "Introduction." In Land and Society in Contemporary Africa, R. E. Downs and S P. Reyna (eds). Hanover, NH: New England University Press.
1990a “Land Concentration, Existential Development & Food in the Sahel.” African Food Systems in Crisis. R. Huss-Ashmore & S.H. Katz (ed.), Newark, NJ: Gordon & Breach.

1990b "Some Easy Things Are Hard: Three Variations on a `Hands Off' Problematic." Reviews in Anthropology 20: 43-55.

1991a "Introduction." With Donna O. Kerner and R. E. Downs (eds). In The Political Economy of African Famine. R.E. Downs, D. O. Kerner, and S.P. Reyna (eds).
1991b "Ontological Stipulation in a `Garden of Eden': Influence of a Mode of Thought Upon an African Livestock Development Project." In The Political Economy of African Famine, R. E. Downs, D. O. Kerner, and S. P. Reyna (eds).
1991c "What is to be Done? A Problematic for Development Anthropology." In The Political Economy of African Famine.
1993a "Sara." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, David Levinson (ed). New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files Press. Internet: http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Sara.html.

1993b Bagirmi." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, David Levinson on (ed). New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files Press.
1994a "Predatory Accumulation & Religious Conflict in the Early 19th Century Chad-Basin." In Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives, S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs (eds). New York: Gordon and Breach.
1994b "A Mode of Domination Approach to Organized Violence." In Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives, S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs (eds). New York: Gordon and Breach.
1994c "Studying War, An Unfinished Project of the Enlightenment." In Studying War, Anthropological Perspectives, S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs (eds). New York: Gordon and Breach.

1994d "Unsocial Analysis: Habitus, Hegemony, & Self." Reviews in Anthropology.

1994f "Sometimes to Be Less than Brilliant is Brilliant: A Structural History Approach to the Domestic Mode of Production." Man 28.

1994g “Commentary: Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology." Current Anthropology. 35 (1).
1994h "Literary Anthropology and the Case Against Science." Man. 29 (3).

1995a Comment: "Response to Michael Singleton." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(3): 630-31.

1996a Review "Revolution and Power: Putting Oppression Center Stage." Reviews in Anthropology. 25: 85-94.
1996b Comment: "Science, Pseudo-Science, Interpretation." Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute. 2: 351-52.
1996c "Unimagined States: The Case of Chad in Comparative Context." Il Mondo 3.
1997a "Literary Anthropology." In Dictionary of Anthropology. New York: Blackwell.
1997b "Theory in Anthropology in the Nineties." Cultural Dynamics. 9(3):325-351
1997c “The Dating Game: Romancing Development Knowledge and the National Bourgeois Among the Desert Palms of Mauritania.” Urban Anthropology. 26:331-396

1997d "Warfare: Indigenous Conflicts and Warfare." In The Encyclopedia of Africa. Vol. 4. J. Middleton (ed). New York: Simon & Schuster.
1997e "Chad: Physical and Social Geography." Ibid.
1998a "The Force of Two Logics: Predatory and Capital Accumulation in the Making of the Great Leviathan, 1415-1780." In Deadly Developments: Capitalism, States, & War. New York: Gordon & Breach.
1998b "Deadly Developments & Phantasmagoric Representations." Ibid.
1998c "Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgements." Identities. 4(3-4):431-465
1998d "Introduction: The Pursuit of Knowledge and Regimes of Truth." [with Nina Glick Schiller]. Ibid.:333-341

1999 "The Owl in the Twilight: Cultural Anthropologies of Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins." Reviews in Anthropology 28: 173-187.
2001a “Theory Counts:[Discounting] Discourse to the Contrary by Adopting a Confrontational Stance" in Anthropological Theory. I(1): 9-31.

2001b “The Six-Field System” (with Richard Wilson) in Anthropological Theory. I(1): 5-9 .

2001c “Force, Power, and String Being?”. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers. Working Paper # 20

2002a “Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations”. Reprinted in The Anthropology of Politics. (Joan Vincent, ed.) Oxford: Blackwell.
2002b “A Cold War Story, The Barbarization of Chad (1966-1991)." In The State, Identity, and Violence (R. Brian Ferguson, ed.) London: Routledge.

2002c “Empires: A Dazzling Performance According to a Simpleton”. Anthropological Theory. 2(4):489-499.

2002d “A Structural History of Warfare in Chad, 1968-1990.” Virajes. 5(1): 57-74.

2003a “Imagining Monsters, A Structural History of Warfare in Chad” In Globalization and Violence. Pp. 279-309. (J. Friedman, ed.), Walnut Park, CA.: Altamira.

2003b “Jonathan Friedman”. In Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. (Vered Amit, ed.). Routledge: London.

2003c “Force, Power, and the Problem of Order: An Anthropological Approach”. Sociologus. 3(2).

2004a “Comment” The Culture Concept as Theory, in Context:” Current Anthropology. 45(2): 201-202.

2004b “Hard Truth and Validation: What Zeus Understood”. Working Paper #65. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

2005a. “American Imperialism: ‘The Current Runs Swiftly’”. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. 45(July-August):129-51.

2005b “’We Exist to Fight’: The Second Iraq War”. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice. 49(1): 190-197.

2005c "’By These Means He Is Able to Procure What He Is Most In Need Of': Predatory Accumulation & State Formation in Bagirmi (1846-1877)." In Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa. (D. Crummy, ed.). African World Press: Trenton, NJ

2005d “A Bureaucratic Drop in the Bucket: Who is Reviewing Science?” Anthropology News. 46(8): 5,7)

2006 “What Is Interpretation? A Cultural Neurohermeneutic Account.” Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. 48:131-143.

2007a. “Waiting, The Sorcery of Modernity: Transnational Corporations, Oil and Terrorism in Chad”. Sociologus. 57 (1): 11-39).

2007b. “The Traveling Model that Wouldn’t Travel, or Developing Dystopia: Oil, Empire, and Patrimonialism in Contemporary Chad. Social Analysis. 51(3): 78-102.

2007c. Why Development Really Fails: Oil, Empire and Patrimonialism in Contemporary Chad’. Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies. 26(4) 104-134.

2007d. Ly Thuyet Nhãn Hoc The Ky 19. (Vietnamese translation of ‘Theory in Anthropology in the 90s’). Journal Donation Project. Internet: http://www.newschool.edu/center/jdp/documents/anthro_reyna_utn_97.pdf.

2008a. Towards an Anthropology of Oil. (Co-edited with Andrea Behrends). This is a special issue of Focaal. 52. Autumn.

2008b. ‘”Its Crazy”: Towards an Anthropology of Oil in a Turbulent World’. (with A. Behrends). Special Issue. Focaal. 52. Autumn.

2009a. ‘Global Warring Today: “Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain.”’ Social Analysis.52(2): 50-71.

2009b ‘Global Warring Today: “Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain.”’ In: Alisse Waterston (ed.). An Anthropology of War: Views from War Zones. New York: Berghahn.

2009c ‘Taking Place: ‘”New Wars” versus Global Wars’. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. 17 (3): 291-317.

2009d ‘Jonathan Friedman and the “Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges”. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. 55. Winter.

2010a. ‘Hard Truths: Addressing the “Crises” in Anthropology.’ Beyond Writing Culture: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Practices of Representation. (co-editors Olaf Zenker and Karsten Kumoll). New York: Berghahn.

2010b. ‘The Disasters of War in Darfur, 1950-2004.’ Third World Quarterly. 31(8): 1-24.

2011a ‘Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters: Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and Anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-State’ In Andrea Behrends, S. Reyna, and Günther Schlee (eds.). Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. New York: Berghahn.

2011b. ‘”Against …Domination”: Oil and War in Chechnya’. (with Galina Khizieva). In Andrea Behrends, S. Reyna, and Günther Schlee (eds.). Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. New York: Berghahn.

2011c. ‘The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of Oil’ (with Andrea Behrends). In Andrea Behrends, S. Reyna, and Günther Schlee (eds.). Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. New York: Berghahn.

2011d. ‘Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathos: Regimes of Truth in an Anthropology of Hypocrisy. Transforming Anthropology.

2011e. ‘Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-American Anthropology’. In David Adams and Galin Tihanov (eds.): Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism. Maney and Son Ltd Publishing: Oxford.

2011f. ‘Assessing Bias: The Qualitative in the Quantitative, Darfur War Fatalities and the Morality of War’. Sociology Mind. 1(3): 105-113.

2012a. ‘Forward’. Special Issue on Neuroanthropology, (Ed. Stephen Reyna). Anthropological Theory. 12 (1).

2012b. ’Neo-Boasianism, A Form of Critical Structural Realism: It’s Better than the Alternative’. Anthropological Theory. 12(1).