- Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
- A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
- Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
- Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)
- Language and Sexuality