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Anthropology
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2025). Dead bodies on edge: misfitting graves and awkward repair on the Georgian – Turkish border. Critique of Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X261420943 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs, Cheishvili, Giorgi (2025). Misfits: towards a critical analysis of the in-between. Critique of Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X261420938 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2025). Capricious states and betwixt citizens across the caucasus. Caucasus Survey, 13(1), 79 - 90. https://doi.org/10.30965/23761202-bja10030 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2024). Suspicion and evidence: on the complexities of online truth seeking in times of uncertainty. Social Anthropology, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2024.022002 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs, Walker, Harry (Eds.) (2022). How people compare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2022). On the act of comparison: an introduction. In Pelkmans, Mathijs, Walker, Harry (Eds.), How People Compare (pp. 1 - 21). Curzon. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2022). Recognizing uniqueness: on (not) comparing the World Nomad Games. In Pelkmans, Mathijs, Walker, Harry (Eds.), How People Compare (pp. 47 - 67). Curzon. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283669-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2021). Frontier dynamics: reflections on evangelical and Tablighi missions in Central Asia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63(1), 212 - 241. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417520000420 picture_as_pdf
  • Bovensiepen, Judith, Pelkmans, Mathijs (2020). Dynamics of wilful blindness: an introduction. Critique of Anthropology, 40(4), 387-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X20959432 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs, Umetbaeva, Damira (2018). Moneylending and moral reasoning on the capitalist frontier in Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Quarterly, 91(3), 1049-1074. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2018.0049 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs, Umetbaeva, Damira (2018). Stuff of boundaries? Kyrgyz–Russian marriages and the actualization of ethnic difference. History and Anthropology, 29(5), 541-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2018.1555708 picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2018). Doubt, suspicion, mistrust . . . semantic approximations. In Mühlfried, Florian (Ed.), Mistrust. Ethnographic Approximations (pp. 169-178). Transcript (Firm). picture_as_pdf
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2017). Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan. Cornell University Press.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2016). The restlessness of doubt, and the tenacity of belief. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 499-503. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.030
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2015). Mediating miracle truth: permanent struggle and fragile conviction in Kyrgyzstan. In Coleman, Simon, Hackett, Rosalind i. J. (Eds.), The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (pp. 177-193). NYU Press.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2015). Religious repression and religious freedom: an analysis of their contradictions in (post- )Soviet contexts. In Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth, Mahmood, Saba, Danchin, Peter G. (Eds.), Politics of Religious Freedom (pp. 313-323). University of Chicago Press.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2015). Awkward secularity between atheism and new religiosity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. In Ngo, T., Quijada, J. (Eds.), Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia (pp. 244-255). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438386_13
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2014). Paradoxes of religious freedom and repression in (post-)Soviet contexts. Journal of Law and Religion, 29(3), 436 - 446. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2014.23
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013). Powerful documents: passports, passages, and dilemmas of identification on the Georgian–Turkish border. In Bacas, Jutta Lauth, Kavanagh, William (Eds.), Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers (pp. 90-107). Berghahn Books.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013). Ruins of hope in a Kyrgyz post-industrial wasteland (respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate). Anthropology Today, 29(5), 17-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12060
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013). A wider audience for anthropology?: political dimensions of an important debate. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19(2), 398-404. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12041
  • Pelkmans, M.E. (Ed.) (2013). Ethnographies of doubt: faith and uncertainty in contemporary societies. I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2013). Outline for an ethnography of doubt. In Pelkmans, Mathijs (Ed.), Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies (pp. 1-42). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2012). Chaos and order along the (former) iron curtain. In Wilson, Thomas M., Donnan, Hastings (Eds.), Companion to Border Studies (pp. 269-282). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2012). Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs, Machold, Rhys (2011). Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2011(59), 66-80. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2011.590105
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2010). Religious crossings and conversions on the Muslim–Christian frontier in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 19(2), 109-128. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2010.190209
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2010). Religious frontiers after socialism: missionary encounters and the dynamics of conversion in Kyrgyzstan,. In Hann, Chris (Ed.), Religion, Identity, Postsocialism: the Halle Focus Group 2003-2010 (pp. 41-44). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (Ed.) (2009). Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009). Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life. In Pelkmans, Mathijs (Ed.), Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union (pp. 1-16). Berghahn Books.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009). Temporary conversions: encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan. In Pelkmans, Mathijs (Ed.), Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union (pp. 143-162). Berghahn Books.
  • Hann, Chris, Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009). Realigning religion and power in Central Asia: Islam, nation-state and (post)socialism. Europe-Asia Studies, 61(9), 1517-1541. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130903209111
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009). The "transparency" of Christian proselytizing in Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Quarterly, 82(2), 423-445. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.0.0058
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008). Book review: communities of the converted: Ukrainians and global evangelism - Catherine Wanner. Slavic Review, 67(4), 1018-1019.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008). Book review: urban life in post-Soviet Asia. Ab Imperio, 2008(3), 453-457.
  • McBrien, Julie, Pelkmans, Mathijs (2008). Turning Marx on his head. Critique of Anthropology, 28(1), 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X07086559
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2007). 'Culture' as a tool and an obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13(4), 881-899. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00462.x
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006). Asymmetries on the 'religious market' in Kyrgyzstan. In Hann, Chris (Ed.), The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe (pp. 29-46). LIT Verlag.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006). Defending the border: identity, religion and modernity in the Republic of Georgia. Cornell University Press.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2006). Religion und Kultur in Zentralasien: Sowjetische Vermächtnisse und neue Herausforderungen. (Jahrbuch 2006). Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005). Baptized Georgian: religious conversion to Christianity in autonomous Ajaria. (Working paper 71). Max Planck Gesellschaft.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005). Missionary encounters in Kyrgyzstan: challenging the national ideal. Central Eurasian Studies Review, 4(1), 13-16.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2005). On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2005(46), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.3167/092012906780786843
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2003). Rural credit institutions in Kyrgyzstan: the practice of transition aid. In Spoor, Max (Ed.), Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector (pp. 183-195). Lexington Books.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2003). The social life of empty buildings: imagining the transition in post-Soviet Ajaria. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2003(41), 121-136.
  • Pelkmans, Mathijs (2002). Religion, nation and state in Georgia: Christian expansion in Muslim Ajaria. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 22(2), 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360200022000027276