Callahan, Robey (2008). Review of Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro. (Tuulikki Pietilá. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2007.  xi + 241 pp.). In Ethos 36(1).
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Callahan, Robey (2007). "Apocalypto in Cobá." Anthropology News 48(6):28-29.
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Callahan, Robey and Trevor Stack (2007). Creativity in Advertising, Fiction and Ethnography. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold, eds. Pp 267-283. Oxford, Berg.
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Callahan, Robey (2007). Review of The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic. (Takie Sugiyama Lebra. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2004. xxiv + 303 pp.). In Ethos.
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Callahan, Robey (2005). Doubt, Shame, and the Maya Self. Department of Anthropology. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. PhD: xii,559.
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ABSTRACT: "This is an ethnography of the Maya of Cobá, Quintana Roo, México. More specifically, it is a psychocultural study of the Maya self--a study which analyzes cognitive understandings of social relations (with both ordinary and extraordinary beings) and the emotional colorings of those understandings. The key to understanding the Maya self is discovered to be the link between two powerful emotions, doubt and shame, as locally conceived and experienced. The relatively high instance of doubt within Maya social relations is tied to the relatively high instance of shame (and the relatively low significance of guilt). One effect of this study is to call into serious question the utility of a common set of distinctions in psychological anthropology: that between so-called 'sociocentric' and 'individualistic' selves."

Callahan, Robey (1999). "The Liberty Bell: From Commodity to Sacred Object."Journal of Material Culture 4(1): 57-78.

ABSTRACT: "The Liberty Bell stands today as one of the most prominent and widely recognized symbols of America.  As a cultural biography of this national artifact, this paper focuses on the four main media through which the Bell has over time gained the exposure needed for its consecration in the public mind.  The media of presenting the Bell include (1) the changing ways in which it has been exhibited in Philadelphia for the public and (2) the many train journeys across the United States the Bell took from 1885 to 1915 to visit various industrial expositions.  The media of representing the Bell include (3) the many mid- to late-19th-century mythic stories that portray it as a key figure in both the American Revolution and the early 19th-century anti-slavery movement in the United States and (4) the post-1876 growth of the use of its image in advertising and tourism."

Callahan, Robey (1998). "Ethnic Politics and Tourism: A British Case Study." Annals of Tourism Research 25(4): 818-836.

ABSTRACT: "This paper argues that one can better understand the phenomenon of ethnicity in the West through an analysis of tourism representations of a region's history and culture and of the many motives behind them.  It examines the rise of a particular version of Shetland (United Kingdom) identity by linking the differing goals of the local bourgeoisie, as well as the bulk of the islands' inhabitants, with the projects of the Shetland Tourist Organisation and related groups.  While this version of Shetlandness is understood as providing a Durkheimian sense of unity for many inhabitants, its origins and increasing articulations with the economic and political goals of the islands' bourgeoisie are the main concerns of the paper."

Callahan, Robey (1994). Ethnic Politics and Tourism in Shetland. Department of Anthropology. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. MA: iii,46.