Forthcoming – Stealing with the Eyes

I’m delighted to be able to announce that my anthropological-memoir-of-sorts, Stealing with the Eyes, is due to out from Haus Publishing next year. It is a tale of possession, exorcism, gods, ancestors, anthropologists and unpaid debts, drawing upon the research I did into the wood-carving industry a quarter of a century ago (!) in the Tanimbar islands of Indonesia. I’ll post more closer to the time. The title, incidentally, comes from the Indonesian curi mata — a nicely succinct summation of the anthropological enterprise that was put to me by one of my Indonesian friends…