Political Culture
| Middleton, Townsend. In Press. “The Afterlives of a Killing: Assassination, Thanatos, and the Body Politic in South Asia.” Public Culture, 2018 30 (1): 85-112. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Anxious Belongings: Anxiety and the Politics of Belonging in Subnationalist Darjeeling.” American Anthropologist 115 (4): 608-621. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “States of Difference: Refiguring Ethnicity and its ‘Crisis’ at India’s Borders.” Political Geography 35. (Special Issue: Geographies at the Margins: Interrogating Borders in South Asia): 14-24. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Scheduling Tribes: A View from Inside India’s ‘Ethnographic State’.” FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 65. (Special Issue: Affirmative Action in South Asia): 13-22. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2011.“Across the Interface of State Ethnography: Rethinking Ethnology and its Subjects in Multicultural India.” American Ethnologist 38 (2): 249-266. |
| Middleton, Townsend and Sara Shneiderman. 2008. “Reservation, Federalism, and the Politics of Recognition in Nepal.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, (19): 39-45. |
Post/Colonialism
| Quinine’s Remains (current project) |
| Middleton, Townsend and Michael Eilenberg & Jason Cons, Eds.. 2019. “Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling, India” Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. London: Wiley Blackwell: Antipode Book Series. 195-212. |
| Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments. Edited with Sara Shneiderman. (Oxford University Press, 2018) |
| The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling. (Stanford University Press, 2015) |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Provincialising Bengal: The View from Darjeeling.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43 (1): 32-51. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2011 “Ethno-logics: Paradigms of Modern Identity” in Modern Makeovers: A Handbook of Modernity in South Asia. Saurabh Dube, Ed. Oxford University Press. 200-213 |
Logistics, Infrastructure, Security
| Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Connective Insecurities: Chokepoint Pragmatics at India’s Chicken Neck.” Ethnos. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary“ |
The State
| The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling. (Stanford University Press, 2015) |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Scheduling Tribes: A View from Inside India’s ‘Ethnographic State’.” FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 65. (Special Issue: Affirmative Action in South Asia): 13-22. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “States of Difference: Refiguring Ethnicity and its ‘Crisis’ at India’s Borders.” Political Geography 35. (Special Issue: Geographies at the Margins: Interrogating Borders in South Asia): 14-24. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2011.“Across the Interface of State Ethnography: Rethinking Ethnology and its Subjects in Multicultural India.” American Ethnologist 38 (2): 249-266. |
Quinine in India
Commentaries on Anthropology
| Middleton, Townsend and Jason Cons. 2019. “Research Assistants and Ethnographic Fieldwork.” SAGE Research Methods Foundations. |
| Middleton, Townsend and Jason Cons. 2014. “Coming to Terms: Reinserting Research Assistants into Ethnography’s Past and Present.” Introduction to Fieldwork(ers). Special Issue of Ethnography 15 (3): 279-290. |
| Middleton, Townsend and Eklavya Pradhan. 2014. “Dynamic Duos: On Partnership and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Ethnography.” in Fieldwork(ers). Special Issue of Ethnography 15 (3): 355-374. |
| Middleton, Townsend. 2015. “Ethnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats On.” In Theory Can Be More Than It Used To Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition. Dominic Boyer, James Faubion, & George Marcus, Eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 197-203 |
Townsend Middleton 