- 1983 Missionaries and Sorcerers
- 1985 Missionaries and Mourning
- 1985 Maisin Christianity (dissertation)
- 1986 Bachelor House to Youth Club
- 1987 Cheerful Pragmatists
- 1989 Western Medicine
- 1990 Encounters with Evil
- 1990 Mission Station and Village
- 1990 Tattooing
- 1993 We Are Ekelesia
- 1996 Village Inventions
- 1998 To Hear is to Obey
- 2001 Dangerous Objects
- 2003 Christian Bodies
- 2004 Films and Other Trials
- 2004 Between Heaven and Earth
- 2005 Kawo and Sabu
- 2005 Outpost in Papua
- 2007 Modalities of Modernity
- 2012 The Enigma of Christian Conversion
- 2014 Fashioning Rebirth
- 2016 Mothers Union Goes on Strike