2024
Rethinking community in Myanmar. Practices of we-formation among Muslims and Hindus in urban Yangon. Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i University Press. Paperback and Open Access
2023
2016
The force of custom. Law and the ordering of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan. University of Pittsburgh Press. Check out reviews of the book in Slavic Review, AllegraLab and in Central Asian Survey.
Selected among the “Best Books on Central Asia in 2018” by “Voices on Central Asia”, a platform that is a collaboration between the Central Asia Program (CAP) and the Central Asian Analytical Network (CAAN), both part of The George Washington University‘s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES).
2010
Baiyz apa zhashoo tarzhymaly [The life history of Baiyz Apa]. Bishkek: Gulchynar.
For a Russian-language article about the book see here
2007
(together with Roman Knee) Kirgistan: Ein ethnografischer Bildband über Talas / Kirgistan: A photoethnography of Talas. München: Hirmer-Verlag (in German and English).
The book has been reviewed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).