Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Chapters

2017. "Necessary (Re)Unions: Revisiting and Revising Studies on the Sama Igal Dance and Kulintangan Ensemble Music Traditions." In Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music: Choreomusicological Perspectives on Maritime Southeast Asian Performing Arts, edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor and Kendra Stepputat. Routledge. 
2017. "Untitled Essay on Dance, Lighting and the Craft of Shoko Matsumoto." In Awareness of Light: Handbook and Archives of Technical Theater in the Philippines, edited by Naomi 'Shoko' Matsumoto and Cynthia Neri Zaya. University of the Philippines Press: 27 
2017. "Observing Sacred Spaces: A Comparative Study of Two Sama-Bajau Ritual Sites in Tawi-Tawi, Southern Philippines." In Bajau-Sama' Language and Literature, Performing Arts (Music and Dance), Sama Dilaut Migration and Politics, Heritage and Material Culture, Identity and Representation, Ritual and Sacred Spaces: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Bajau-Sama' Diaspora and Maritime Southeast Asian Cultures, edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor. Nusantra Performing Arts Research Center: 46-55 
2016. "Pag-jamu Boheh Deya: Interrogating "Property" in the Sama Tabawan Music and Dance Ritual of the Sacred Well". In Bajau-Sama' Language and Literature, Performing Arts (Music and Dance), Sama Dilaut Migration and Politics, Heritage and Material Culture, Identity and Representation, Ritual and Sacred Spaces: Proceedings of the International Conference on Bajau-Sama' Diaspora and Maritime Southeast Asian Cultures, edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor. Nusantra Performing Arts Research Center: 145-159. Also published in Perspectives on Bajau/Sama Diaspora, edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor (2017): 193–217.
2015. "Reconfiguring Folk Performance for the Contemporary Stage: Sintang Dalisay and the Igal of the Sama-Bajau in Southern Philippines." In The Folk Performing Arts in ASEAN, edited by Narupan Duangwises and Lowell D. Skar, 311–31. Bangkok: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre. Coauthored with Ricardo Abad.