
Dr Liana Chua
Reader
Marie Jahoda 140
- Email: liana.chua@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265429
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Chua, L. (2020) 'Viral Devotionality and Christian Solidarity in/beyond Borneo'. Oceania, 90 (S1 Special Issue:Oceanic Societies in COVID‐19). pp. 6 - 13. ISSN: 0029-8077 Open Access Link
Harrison, ME., Wijedasa, LS., Cole, LES., Cheyne, SM., Choiruzzad, SAB., Chua, L., et al. (2020) 'Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics'. PeerJ, 8. pp. 1 - 43. ISSN: 2167-8359 Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2020) 'Durian diplomacies'. Terrain. pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 0760-5668 Open Access Link
Chua, L., Harrison, ME., Fair, H., Milne, S., Palmer, A., Rubis, J., et al. (2020) 'Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co‐optation. A case study from orangutan conservation'. People and Nature, 2 (1). pp. 42 - 60. ISSN: 2575-8314 Open Access Link
Chua, L. and Fair, H. (2019) 'Anthropocene'. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. ISSN: 2398-516X Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2018) 'Too cute to cuddle? "Witnessing publics" and inter-species relations on the social media-scape of orangutan conservation'. Anthropological Quarterly, 91 (3). pp. 873 - 903. ISSN: 0003-5491 Open Access Link
Chua, L. and Mathur, N. (2018) 'Who are "We"? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology'. Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 1785338897 ISSN 13: 9781785338892
Chua, L. (2018) 'What role for conservation in culture? A response to Schneider'. ORYX, 52 (3). pp. 416 - 416. ISSN: 0030-6053 Open Access Link
Chua, L. and Mathur, N. (2018) 'Introducing the 'we' in and of anthropology', in Chua, L. and Mathur, N. (eds.) Who are 'we'? Reimagining alterity and affinity in anthropology. New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 1 - 34. ISBN 10: 1785338889. ISBN 13: 978-1-78533-888-5. Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2018) 'Small acts and personal politics: On helping to save the orangutan via social media'. Anthropology Today, 34 (3). pp. 7 - 11. ISSN: 0268-540X Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2017) 'Animal internet stardom', in Parrenas, R. (ed.) Gender: Animals (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbook). Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 317 - 332. ISBN 10: 0028663233.
Chua, L. (2016) 'Gifting, Dam(n)ing and the Ambiguation of Development in Malaysian Borneo'. Ethnos, 81 (4). pp. 737 - 757. ISSN: 0014-1844 Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2015) 'Troubled landscapes, troubling anthropology: co-presence, necessity and the making of ethnographic knowledge'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 (3). pp. 641 - 659. ISSN: 1467-9655 Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2015) 'Horizontal and vertical relations: Interrogating "in/dividualism" among Christian Bidayuhs'. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5 (1). pp. 339 - 339. ISSN: 1359-0987 Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2015) 'Anthropological perspectives on ritual and religious ignorance', in Gross, M. and McGoey, L. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. London and New York : Routledge. pp. 247 - 255. ISBN 13: 9780415718967.
Chua, L. (2014) 'Everyday religiosity and the ambiguation of development in East Malaysia: Reflections on a dam-construction and resettlement project', in Platzdasch, B. and Saravanamuttu, J. (eds.) In Religious Minorities in Muslim-Majorities Localities in Southeast Asia: Areas of Toleration and Conflict. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 400 - 417. ISBN 13: 9789814519649. Open Access Link
Chua, L. and Elliott, M. (2013) 'Introduction: Adventures in the Art Nexus', in Chua, L. and Elliott, M. (eds.) Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell. Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 1 - 25. ISBN 10: 0857457446. ISBN 13: 9780857457448.
Chua, L. and Elliott, M. (2013) 'Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell'. Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISSN 10: 0857457446 ISSN 13: 9780857457448
Chua, L. and Salmond, A. (2012) 'Artefacts in Anthropology', in Fardon, R. and Gledhill, J. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 101 - 114. ISBN 10: 1847875475. ISBN 13: 9781847875471.
Chua, L. (2012) 'Conversion, continuity, and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo'. American Ethnologist, 39 (3). pp. 511 - 526. ISSN: 0094-0496 Open Access Link
Chua, L., Cook, J., Long, N. and Wilson, L. (2012) 'Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power'. Routledge. ISSN 10: 0415683459 ISSN 13: 9780415683456
Chua, L., Cook, J., Long, N. and Wilson, L. (2012) 'Introduction', in Chua, L., Cook, J., Long, N. and Wilson, L. (eds.) Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power. Routledge. , 13. pp. 1 - 15. ISBN 10: 0415683459. ISBN 13: 9780415683456.
Chua, L. (2012) 'The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo'. Palgrave MacMillan. ISSN 10: 0230120466 ISSN 13: 9780230120464
Chua, L. (2012) 'The problem with 'empty crosses': Thinking through materiality in Bidayuh religious practices', inThe Spirit of Things: Materiality and Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press. pp. 111 - 128. ISBN 10: 0-87727-788-5.
Chua, L. (2011) 'Soul encounters: Emotions, corporeality, and the matter of belief in a bornean village'. Social Analysis, 55 (3). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 0155-977X
Chua, L. (2010) 'Eating one’s way through fieldwork: Reflections on food and (Malaysian) sociality', in Lee, JCH. (ed.) The Malaysian way of life. pp. 73 - 77. ISBN 10: 9833845223. ISBN 13: 9789833845224.
Chua, L. (2009) 'To know or not to know? Practices of knowledge and ignorance among Bidayuhs in an “impurely” Christian world'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (2). pp. 332 - 348. ISSN: 1359-0987 Open Access Link
Chua, L. (2009) 'What's in a (big) name? The art and agency of a Bornean photographic collection'. Anthropological Forum, 19 (1). pp. 33 - 52. ISSN: 0066-4677
Chua, L. (2009) 'A Cambridge anthropologist in Borneo: The A.C. Haddon photographic collection, 1898-1899'. Borneo Research Bulletin, 40. pp. 129 - 146.
Chua, L., High, C. and Lau, T. (2008) 'How Do We Know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge'. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 10: 1847185819 ISSN 13: 9781847185815
Chua, L., High, C. and Lau, T. (2008) 'Introduction', in Chua, L., High, C. and Lau, T. (eds.) How Do We Know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1 - 19. ISBN 10: 1847185819. ISBN 13: 9781847185815.
Chua, L. (2007) 'Fixity and flux: Bidayuh (dis)engagements with the Malaysian ethnic system'. Ethnos, 72 (2). pp. 262 - 288. ISSN: 0014-1844
Chua, L. (2006) 'Looking for the Tambok: Some ethnographic notes on contemporary Bidayuh basketry'. Sarawak Museum Journal, 62 (83). pp. 1 - 32.