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Book Chapters

Steur, Luisa (2015) 'Under the specter of absolute expediency: Class and belonging amongst indigenous workers in Kerala.' In: Carrier, James and Kalb, Don, (eds.), Class for anthropologists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Steur, Luisa (2010) 'Adivasi workers' struggles and the Kerala model: Interpreting the past, confronting the present.' In: Raman, Ravi, (ed.), Development, democracy and the state: Critiquing the Kerala Model of development. London: Routledge, pp. 221-236. (Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 28)

Journal Article

Steur, Luisa (2011) 'Adivasis, Communists and the rise of indigenism in Kerala.' Dialectical Anthropology, 35 (1). pp. 59-69.

Steur, Luisa (2011) 'Traveling models of indigenism and Kerala’s emergent adivasi politics.' Anthropological Notebooks, 17 (2). pp. 93-111.

Steur, Luisa (2010) 'Indigenous identity: burden or liberation? Reflections on "adivasi" politics in Kerala.' Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies, 53. p. 26.

Steur, Luisa (2009) 'Adivasi mobilization: 'Identity' versus 'class' after the Kerala model of development?' Journal of South Asian Development, 4 (1). pp. 25-44.

Steur, Luisa (2009) 'What's left? Land expropriation, socialist 'modernizers', and peasant resistance in Asia.' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 54. pp. 67-73.

Steur, Luisa (2006) 'The Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha in Kerala: Resistance and the reproduction of political hegemonies.' IDPAD Newsletter, 4 (1). pp. 74-78.

Book Reviews

Steur, Luisa (2007) 'Airing dirty laundry or nursing caste?' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 50 . pp. 173-175.

Steur, Luisa (2006) 'The savage slot of class polarization.' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 48 . pp. 169-172.

Steur, Luisa (2005) 'On the correct handling of contradictions: liberal-culturalism in indigenous studies.' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 46 . pp. 169-176.