Books
Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Chapters in books
"Breast Milk Is Sweet and Salty (A Choreography of Healing)." Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory. Ed. André Lepecki. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming (2003).
"Syncopated Genealogies: African Musics in the Americas, American Musics in Africa." Sound Unbound. Ed. Paul D. Miller. New York: Routledge, forthcoming (2003).
"Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions." Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. Eds. Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
"The Daughters of Gandhi: Africanness, Indianness and Brazilianness in the Bahian Carnival." Performing Hybridity. Eds. May Joseph and Jennifer Fink. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
"Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions." Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America. Eds. Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
"Samba: The Body Articulate." Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory. Eds. Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
"Babaluaiyé: Searching for the Text of a Pandemic." AIDS: The Literary Response. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. New York: Twain, 1992.
Articles
"Dance and Globalization." Dance Research Journal (Introductory Essay and Guest-Edited Thematic Section) (2002).
"The Closed Body." Women and Performance (1996).
"When Snow Isn't White." Women & Performance (1996).
"The Daughters of Gandhi: Africanness, Indianness and Brazilianness in the Bahian Carnival." Women and Performance (1995).
Related publications
"Fluid Bodies." Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts: Working Papers. Arts International, 2001.
"Linda Odaliscas: Afro-Orientalism in Brazilian Belly Dancing."CORD 2001 Proceedings, 2001.
"The Performance of Healing (Book Review)." TDR (1997).
"Choreographing History (Book Review)." TDR (1996).
"Divine Choreography and the Embodiment of Metaphor."Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Afro-American Cultures. Buenos Aires: Insituto de Investigaci—n de las Culturas Negras Ile Ase Osun Doyo, 1995.
"History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America, Containing the Navigation and the Remarkable Things Seen on the Sea (Book Review)." The Hispanic American Historical Review (1991).
""Trail of Miracles (Book Review)." Brazil/Brasil (1991).
