Aurora Donzelli

Publications prior to 2004

Books/Monographs Authored

• (2019) Methods of Desire: Language, Morality, and Affect in Neoliberal Indonesia. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press). http://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/methods-of-desire-language-morality-and-affect-in-neoliberal-indonesia/

• (2020) One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia. (Singapore: NUS Press). http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo68162961.html

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• (2021) “L’etica protestante e l’economia del dono: note sull’incontro missionario nell’Indonesia orientale.” Annali di studi religiosi, 22, 2021, pp.111-135. http://http//books.fbk.eu/media/uploads/files/Letica_protestante_e_leconomia_del_dono.pdf

• (2020) “The Act of Reading Aloud: Animating the Neoliberal Speaking Subject in Post-Suharto Indonesia.”Discourse and Society 31(5): 459-477. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0957926520914688

• (2019) “Material words: The aesthetic grammar of Toraja textiles, carvings, and ritual language.” Journal of Material Culture25(2): 167-195. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359183519858378

• (2019) “The ‘Tiny Hand’ of Donald Trump and the Counterpolitics of Typographic Parody.” Signs and Society 7(2): 217-244, (with A. Powell Bugden). http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/702567

• (2019) “Discovering by Surrendering: For an Epistemology of Serendipity Against the Neoliberal Ethics of Accountability.” Antropologia6(1): 163-183. http://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/1529

• (2017) “From the womb to the tree: Child rearing practices and beliefs among the Toraja of Sulawesi.” Wacana 18(3): 658-691, (with T. Hoppenbrouwers and S. Sandarupa).

• (2016)“The Grammar of Politics: Morality, Agency, and Voice Selection in Toraja Political Discourse.” Journal of Anthropological Linguistics 58(4): 411-441. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/676489/summary

• (2010) “Is ergativity always a marker of agency? Toraja and Samoan grammar of action and the contribution of emancipatory pragmatics to social theory.” Applied Linguistics Review1: 193-220.

• (2010) “Rice intimacies. Reflections on the ‘house’ in Upland Sulawesi and South China.” Archiv für Völkerkunde (57-58): 37-64, Special Issue “Constructing the Future – Remembering the Past. Houses and Architecture in Southeast Asia,” (with G. Santos).
  
  
• (2007) “Etnicitá e Linguaggio tra i Toraja di Sulawesi (Indonesia)[Ethnicity and Language among the Toraja (Indonesia)].”RIPLA Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics/Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, 7(3): 147-169.

• (2007) “Words on the Lips and Meanings in the Stomach: Ideologies of Unintelligibility and Theories of Metaphor in Toraja Ritual Speech.” Text and Talk27(4): 533-557, Special issue onUnintelligibility in Ritual Speech.

• (2005) “La disciplina delle emozioni tra introspezione e performance: pratiche e discorsi del controllo a Toraja (Indonesia) [The Discipline of Emotions between Introspection and Performance: Practices and Narratives of Control in Toraja (Indonesia].” Antropologia, 5 (6): 37-71,Special Issue “Anthropology of Emotions,” (with D. Hollan).

• (2003) “Diversity in Unity: Multiple Strategies of a Unifying Rhetoric. The Case of Resemanticisation of Toraja Rituals.” JAI (“Indonesian Journal of Anthropology”).

• (2001) “Il turismo a Tana Toraja: un contesto per molti discorsi[Tourism in Tana Toraja: A Context for Many Discourses].” Afriche e Orienti, 3 (3/4): 60-64.

Edited Volumes

• (2007) Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale[Agency and Language: Ethnotheories of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Social Action],” (with A. Fasulo) Rome: Meltemi.

Chapters in Books [peer-reviewed]

• (2021) “Persuasion.” In James Stanlaw (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell.

• (2021) “Hardly Speaking: Ethnographic Rapport and the Ordinary Ethics of Host-Guest Interaction in Upland Sulawesi (Indonesia).” In Zane Goebel (ed), Reimagining Rapport: Understanding the Discursive Construction of Fieldwork Relationships. Oxford University Press.http://global.oup.com/academic/product/reimagining-rapport-9780197558744?cc=us&lang=en&

• (2020) “’Milano, a place to be’: Expo 2015 and the chronotopic rebranding of Italy’s moral capital.” In Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Woydack (eds), Research Companion to Language and Country Branding. Routledge.http://www.routledge.com/Research-Companion-to-Language-and-Country-Branding/Theodoropoulou-Tovar/p/book/9780367343590

• (2019) “From ‘Top down’ to ‘Bottom up’New Order’s Vertical Synchronicity and the Vintage Aesthetics of the Margins in Post-Suharto Political Oratory.” In Debbie Cole, Zane Goebel, and Howard Manns (eds) Contact Talk: The Discursive Organization of Contact and Boundaries. Routledge.http://www.routledge.com/Contact-Talk-The-Discursive-Organization-of-Contact-and-Boundaries/Goebel-Cole-Manns/p/book/9781138370753

• (2016) “The Fetish of Verbal Inflection: Lusophonic Fantasies and Ideologies of Linguistic and Racial Purity in Postcolonial East Timor.” In Sanja Bahun and Dusan Radunovic (eds) Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions. Routledge, pp. 131-157.

• (2008) “Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja.” In David Berliner and Ramon Sarró (eds)Learning Religion. Anthropological Approaches. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 141-60.

• (2007) “Agenti vulnerabili: agency, intenzionalità e carisma nell'oratoria politica a Toraja (Indonesia) [Vulnerable Agents: Agency, Intentionality and Charisma in Toraja political oratory (Indonesia)]”, in Aurora Donzelli and Alessandra Fasulo (eds) Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale, Rome: Meltemi, pp. 85- 110.

• (2007) “Introduzione:Ripensando all’agency a partire dallo studio del linguaggio [Introduction: Rethinking agency from the point of view of language]”, in Aurora Donzelli and Alessandra Fasulo (eds) Agency e Linguaggio: Etnoteorie della Soggettività e della Responsabilità nell’Azione Sociale, Rome: Meltemi, pp. 11-27, (2007).

• (2007) “Pratiche comunicative tra i Toraja di Sulawesi [Communicative Practices Among the Toraja of Sulawesi]”, in V. Matera, Etnografia della comunicazione. Teorie e pratiche dell’interazione sociale, Rome: Carocci editore, pp. 97- 150.

Art Books

• (2017) Entering Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Labyrinth (Bologna: Confine, Art & Culture Publishing) (with G. Fienga & F. Maria Giani).
  
  

• (2016) Ingresso nel Labirinto. Raccolta di testi critici sull’opera ambientale di Arnaldo Pomodoro. Bologna: Editore Confine (con G. Fienga & F. Maria Giani). ISBN 978-88-96427-76-7

Books reviews

• (2014) "Political Oratory and Cartooning: Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar by Jennifer Jackson, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology24.3: 370-372.

• (2006) "Power, Prestige and Bilingualism International Perspectives on Elite Bilingual Education" by Anne-Marie de Mejia, Multilingua25 (3): 351-357.

• (2005)“Acting Authoritatively; How Authority is Expressed through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo”by Kenneth Sillander, Bijdragen tot Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Leiden, 161 (4): 528-9.

Conference Proceedings/Comments in Journal

• (2016) “Crossover Politics: Spatiotemporal images of the nation-state and the vintage aesthetics of the margins in Post-Suharto political oratory. In Tilburg Working Papers in Culture Studies, special Issue“Margins, Hubs, and Peripheriesin a Decentralizing Indonesia” 162: 77-101.

• (2007) “Come convertire le anime modernizzando i rituali [Converting Souls by Modernizing Rituals]’, in Quaderni Asiatici, Centro di Cultura Italia Asia "Guglielmo Scalise"80: 65-116.

• (2007) “L’Islam, la differenza e l’erotico: una storia indonesiana Goenawan Mohamad a Milano [Islam, difference, and the erotic: an Indonesian narrative, Goenawan Mohamad in Milan” (with G. Malpezzi), in Quaderni Asiatici, Centro di Cultura Italia Asia "Guglielmo Scalise Milano, 79: 17-54.