Publications
- Who “Communitizes” Whom? The Countercommunal Models of the Forager Nayaka and Modern India, Bird-David, N., 1 Jan 2024, Countering Modernity: Communal and Cooperative Models from Indigenous Peoples. Taylor and Francis, p. 155-170 16 p.
- More-than-“bird”: Cultivating more-than-categorical attentiveness among Israeli practitioners of bird language, Appel, A. & Bird-David, N., Nov 2023, In: American Ethnologist. 50, 4, p. 609-621 13 p.
- Dis/working with diagrams: How genealogies and maps obscure nanoscale worlds (a hunter-gatherer case), Bird-David, N., 8 Jul 2022, Working With Diagrams. Berghahn Books, p. 43-62 20 p.
- What Do Kinship Terms Do? The dual life of kinship words in english-written hunter-gatherers' ethnography, Bird-David, N., 1 Feb 2021, Rhetoric and Social Relations: Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation. Berghahn Books, p. 80-97 18 p.
- Kinship and scale on paradoxes in hunter-gatherer studies and how to overcome them, Bird-David, N., 1 Dec 2019, In: Hunter Gatherer Research. 4, 2, p. 177-192 16 p.
- Dis/working with diagrams how genealogies and maps obscure nanoscale worlds (A hunter-gatherer case), Bird-David, N., 2019, In: Social Analysis. 63, 4, p. 43-62 20 p.
- What is analysis? Between theory, ethnography, and method, Holbraad, M., Green, S., Corsín Jiménez, A., Das, V., Bird-David, N., Kohn, E., Hage, G., Bear, L., Knox, H. & Kapferer, B., Mar 2018, In: Social Analysis. 62, 1, p. 1-30 30 p.
- Size matters! The scalability of modern hunter-gatherer animism, Bird-David, N., 10 Jan 2018, In: Quaternary International. 464, p. 305-314 10 p.
- Routinergency: Domestic securitization in contemporary Israel, Shapiro, M. & Bird-David, N., 1 Aug 2017, In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 35, 4, p. 637-655 19 p.
- Before nation: Scale-blind anthropology and foragers’ worlds of relatives, Bird-David, N., Apr 2017, In: Current Anthropology. 58, 2, p. 209-226 18 p.
- Us, relatives: Scaling and plural life in a forager world, Bird-David, N., 14 Feb 2017, University of California Press. 276 p.
- דינמיות וגמישות בארגון תכנון לא ממשלתי, דקל, ת., קלוש, ר. & בירד-דוד, נ., 2016, In: תכנון. 13, 2, p. 25-47 23 p.
- Hunting and Gathering Societies: Anthropology, Bird-David, N., 26 Mar 2015, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Elsevier Inc., p. 428-431 4 p.
- The social Life of an Ethnonym: The “Kattu Nayaka” of South India, Bird-David, N., 1 Nov 2014, In: Asian Ethnology. 73, 1-2, p. 139-153 15 p.
- How persons become things: Economic and epistemological changes among Nayaka hunter-gatherers, Naveh, D. & Bird-David, N., Mar 2014, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 20, 1, p. 74-92 19 p.
- At home under development: A housing project for the huntergatherers Nayaka of the Nilgiris, Lavi, N. & Bird-David, N., 2014, In: Eastern Anthropologist. 67, 3-4, p. 407-432 26 p.
- Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society, Bird-David, N., 1 Jan 2011, Dimensions of Social Life: Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum. De Gruyter, p. 151-165 15 p.
- A Moment dead, a moment alive: How a situational personhood emerges in the vegetative state in an israeli hospital unit, Bird-David, N. & Israeli, T., Mar 2010, In: American Anthropologist. 112, 1, p. 54-65 12 p.
- Mass-gifts: On market giving in advanced capitalist societies, Bird-David, N. & Darr, A., 15 Jun 2009, Economic Persuasions. Berghahn Books, Vol. 3. p. 118-135 18 p.
- Commodity, gift and mass-gift: On gift-commodity hybrids in advanced mass consumption cultures, Bird-David, N. & Darr, A., May 2009, In: Economy and Society. 38, 2, p. 304-325 22 p.
- Feeding Nayaka children and English readers: A bifocal ethnography of parental feeding in the giving environment, Bird-David, N., Jun 2008, In: Anthropological Quarterly. 81, 3, p. 523-550 28 p.
- Animistic epistemology: Why do some hunter-gatherers not depict animals?, Bird-David, N., Mar 2006, In: Ethnos. 71, 1, p. 33-50 18 p.
- The property of sharing: Western analytical notions, nayaka contexts, Bird-David, N., 1 Dec 2004, Property and Equality: Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism. Berghahn Books, p. 201-216 16 p.
- Illness-images and joined beings. A critical/Nayaka perspective on intercorporeality, Bird-David, N., Oct 2004, In: Social Anthropology. 12, 3, p. 325-339 15 p.
- No past, no present: A critical-Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering, Bird-David, N., Aug 2004, In: American Ethnologist. 31, 3, p. 406-421 16 p.
- ניצול הסובב ודגמים טכנולוגיים באפיפליאולית המאוחר של הלבנאט, עברון, מ., בירד-דוד, נ. & קאופמן, ד., 2002, In: מתקופת האבן. 31, p. 6 1 p.
- Rolling stones: basalt implements as evidence for trade/exchange in the Levantine Epipaleolithic, Evron, M., Kaufman , D. & Bird-David, N., 2001, In: Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. ל"א, p. 25-42
- Economies: A cultural-economic perspective, Bird-David, N., Dec 1997, In: International Social Science Journal. 49, 154, p. 463-475 13 p.
- The nilgiri tribal systems: A view from below, Bird-David, N., May 1994, In: Modern Asian Studies. 28, 2, p. 339-355 17 p.
- Beyond "the hunting and gathering mode of subsistence': culture- sensitive observations on the Nayaka and other modern hunter- gatherers, Bird-David, N., 1992, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27, 1, p. 19-44 26 p.
- הצצה למקורות האנושות: צייד ולקט עכשו, בירד-דוד, נ., 1988, In: סוציולוגיה תל-אביבית. 3, p. 5 1 p.
- Hunter-gatherers and other people: a re-examination, Bird-David, N. H., 1 Jan 1988, Hunters and Gatherers 1: History, Evolution and Social Change. Taylor and Francis, p. 17-30 14 p.
Research Areas
Cultural anthropology; Economic anthropology; Ethnography; Cultures of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies; Cultural perceptions of environment and society; Consumption and the construction of home and identity; Studies in India, Kenya, and Israel