Publications

(forthcoming). “Digital Materiality and the Shaping of Balinese Religio-Cultural Imaginaries.” in Emily S. Clark and Rachel M. Lindsey eds. Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction, Series on Religion and Digital Humanities, Berlin: De Gruyter Press.
2020. “Devotion as Efficacious Intimacy on the Home Alta.r” in Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny eds., The Material Subject: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion. Routledge.
2020. Douny and Mohan, “Introduction: Subjects, their Bodies, and their Objects.” in Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny eds., The Material Subject: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion. Routledge.
2020. “Religion and Ritual: The Modern Religio-colorscape.” In Anders Steinvall and Sarah Street, eds. A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age, London: Bloomsbury.
2019. “The Power of Fabrication: Reflections on Curating Balinese Textiles.” Material Religion 15(1): 263-266.
2018. Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism, Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts.
2018. Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles. University of Chicago Press/BGC.
2017. “Clothing as a Technology of Enchantment: Gaze and Glaze in Hindu Garments” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 12(1): 225-244.
2017. “Review of Lamak. Ritual Objects in Bali, by Francine Brinkgreve.” Anthropos 112(2): 647-648.
2017. “Looms are good to think with!” Bard Graduate Center (Online Research Forum)
2017. 'When Krishna Wore a Kimono: Deity Clothing as Rupture and Inefficacy' in Carroll, Jeevendrampillai, Parkhurst and Shackelford (eds.) When Things Do Wrong: Anthropologies of Material Failure, London: Bloomsbury.
2017. "Objecthood." in Cox, R. and Callan, H. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Anthropology Beyond Text, Vol. 12, New York: Wiley Blackwell.
2016. Mohan, Urmila and Jean-Pierre Warnier "Editorial: The Bodily and Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation." Journal of Material Culture.
'From Prayer Beads to the Mechanical Counter: The Negotiation of Chanting Practices Within a Hindu Group', Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, No. 174, pp. 191-212.
2015. "Dressing God: Clothing as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group', Kuchler and Drazin (eds.) The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society, London: Bloomsbury..
2015. 'Productive (Dis)orientation: Being Made and Unmade in the Field', Anthropology News, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, AAA, May 2015.
2014. 'The “Temple of the Vedic Planetarium” as Mission, Monument and Memorial', Web blog post, Material Religions, 30 September 2014.
'Designing Diaspora: The Culture of Indian Diasporic Clothing', The Trellis, National Institute of Design, India, June 2011.
'Moving Home', Exhibition Catalog, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, 2010.
‘Slonim Revisited: Images of Home in Emmett Leader’s Art’, Ceramics Art & Perception, June 2008.
‘Laying the Foundation for a New Tradition: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics’, Terracotta Online Magazine, January 2007.
‘Aliens in their own land’, Video, 20 mins, Xavier Center for Culture and Communication, India, 1998.
‘Yatra (A Journey)’, Publicity Video for Shilpgram Cultural Festival, Government of India, 1995.
'Inter-reflexiveness of Art and Design', Colloquium Paper, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, October 1998.