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Authored Books

Rudge, Alice (2023) Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Ulrich, Katie, Rudge, Alice and Ehrenstein, Vera, eds. (2024) Substitution. Arlington, VA: Society for Cultural Anthropology. (Cultural Anthropology: Theorizing the Contemporary. Fieldsights)

Journal Article

Rudge, Alice (2024) 'Divorcing the dead, sharing with Others: negotiating alterity at the edges of a Malaysian rainforest.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30 (3). pp. 687-705.

Ehrenstein, Vera and Rudge, Alice (2024) 'The logic of carbon substitution: from fossilised life to “cell factories”.' Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 105 (1). pp. 99-123.

Lavi, Noa, Rudge, Alice and Warren, Graeme (2024) 'Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer: How an Idea about Our Ancestral Condition Is Recruited into Popular Debate in Britain and Ireland.' Current Anthropology, 65 (1). pp. 72-99.

Rudge, Alice (2024) 'Longing, Loss, and Regret Beyond the Borders of a Malaysian Oil Palm Plantation.' Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. (Forthcoming)

Rudge, Alice and Yamin, Tyler (2023) '“Sounds like” redemption? On the musicality of species and the species of musicality.' Environmental Humanities, 16 (3). (Forthcoming)

Rudge, Alice (2022) 'Cultivating "Care": Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64 (4). pp. 878-909.

Rudge, Alice (2021) 'Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek.' Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31 (1). pp. 4-24.

Rudge, Alice (2019) 'Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 28 (2). pp. 163-183.

Rudge, Alice (2019) 'Laughing when you shouldn't: Being "good" among the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia.' American Ethnologist, 46 (3). pp. 290-301.

Rudge, Alice (2018) 'The sounds of people and birds: Music, memory and longing among the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia.' Hunter Gatherer Research, 4 (1). pp. 3-23.

Endicott, Kirk, Tuck-Po, Lye, Fatanah Zahari, Nurul and Rudge, Alice (2016) 'Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia’s national park.' Hunter Gatherer Research, 2 (1). pp. 97-121.

Book Reviews

Rudge, Alice (2024) 'Of sago, songs, and stories: Comment on Chao, Sophie. 2022. 'In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua'. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.' HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 14 (1). pp. 243-248.

Rudge, Alice (2022) 'Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire by Max Haiven (review).' New Mandala .

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Ulrich, Katie, Rudge, Alice and Ehrenstein, Vera (2024) Substitution: Introduction. Cultural Anthropology: Theorizing the Contemporary. Fieldsights [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2024) Alice Rudge on her book, Sensing Others – an interview with Steven Feld. Communication and Media Performance Anthropology Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2023) Cultivating Care: How Narratives of Care were used in Colonial Experiments with Palm Oil. China Dialogue [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice and Vaughn, Sarah (2022) Engineering Ecology with Alice Rudge and Sarah Vaughn. Comparative Studies in Society and History: Under the Rubric [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2021) Thinking Beyond the “Wild” Pandemic. Edge Effects [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2020) Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest. Allegra Lab [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Rudge, Alice (2019) Time to ditch the harmful myth of the ‘noble’ hunter-gatherer. The Guardian [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]