2023
‘The Great Spirit and Facebook among the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ Shaman 31(1-2): 33-60
2021
‘Prey into kin : The cosmological role of the pig in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak’. Anthropozoologica Special Issue Les suidés en contexte rituel a l’époque contemporaine eds Frédéric Laugrand, Lionel Simon & Séverine Lagneaux. Vol 56 No. 11: 167–180.
‘Journeys in quest of cosmic power : Highland heroes in Borneo.’ In James Fox and Clifford Sather (eds) Austronesian Paths and Journeys. Canberra : ANU (Comparative Austronesian series no. 8), pp. 93–126.
2020
(with Erik de Maaker) ‘Borderland narratives.’ Introduction to special issue of Southeast Asian Studies on ‘Stories across Borders : Myths of Origin and their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia’ edited by Monica Janowski and Erik de Maaker. Vol 9(2): 151–160
‘Stones Alive ! : an exploration of the relationship between humans and stone in Southeast Asia.’ Bijdragen tot de –taal, -land en volkenkunde 176(1): 105-146.
2019
‘The highland dragon: Fearsome protector of nature.’ Sarawak Museum Journal Vol LXXXII, No. 103: 1–20.
‘Protective power : The nabau or water dragon among the Iban of Sarawak.’ Sarawak Museum Journal Special Issue No. 10, Vol LXXXI, No. 102: 115–151.
2018
‘Fieldwork with Molly: Musings on 30 years of motherhood and anthropological research.’ In Kelvin Egay and Hew Cheng Sim (eds), Beyond Romance. Fieldwork in Sarawak, pp. 121–152. Petaling Jaya: SIRD.
2016
‘‘‘I am a grandparent and my name is good”: Status, food and gender among the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ In special issue of Pacific Studies edited by Lamong Lindstrom and Kun-Hui Ku. Vol. 39, nos 1 & 2: 126–173.
‘The dynamics of the cosmic conversation. Beliefs about spirits among the Kelabit and the Penan of the Upper Baram, Sarawak.’ In Kaj Arhem and Guido Sprenger (eds), Animism in SE Asia, pp. 181–204. Oxford: Routledge.
(with S.E. Jones, H. Barton, C.O. Hunt, L. Lloyd-Smith and G. Barker) ‘The cultural antiquity of rainforests: Human-plant associations during the mid-late Holocene in the interior highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.’ Quaternary International: Vol. 416: 80–94. Part of special issue: Southeast Asia: human evolution, dispersals and adaptation, edited by Antony Borel, Hermine Xhauflair, Noel Amano and Andri Purnomo.
2014/2016
Tuked Rini : Cosmic Traveller. Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo. Copenhagen and Kuching : NIAS Press and Sarawak Museum. (Paperback published in 2014, hardback in 2016)
2014
‘Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands.’ Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol 42 No. 122 : 88–112
‘Puntumid : Great Spirit of the Heart of Borneo.’ In Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol 42, No. 133: 120–122
2013
(with Huw Barton and Samantha Jones) ‘Culturing the rainforest : the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak.’ In Kathy Morrison and Suzanne Hecht (eds), The Social Lives of Forests, pp. 161–172. University of Chicago Press.
2012
‘Introduction’. Food and Foodways Vol 20 (Special Issue on Food, Migration and Memory, edited by Monica Janowski): 175-186.
‘Food, trauma and identity: memories of Polish forced migrants during the Second World War’. Food and Foodways Vol 20 (Special Issue on Food, Migration and Memory, edited by Monica Janowski): 326–349.
(with Huw Barton) ‘Reading human activity in the landscape: stone and thunderstones in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak.’ Indonesia and the Malay World 40, 118: 354–271
2011
'Rice Beer and Social Cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak.' In W. Schiefenhovel and Helen Macbeth (eds), Fluid Bread, pp. 183–195. Oxford and New York : Berghahn.
Why cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia. Edited by Monica Janowski and Graeme Barker. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Anthropological Research. With introduction by Monica Janowski and Graeme Barker (pp. 1–16) and chapter by Monica Janowski and Jayl Langub : ‘Footprints and Marks in the Forest: the Penan and the Kelabit of Borneo’, pp. 121–132.
2010
(with Graeme Barker et al) ‘The Cultured Rainforest Project: Archaeological investigations in the third (2009) season of fieldwork in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak’. Sarawak Museum Journal Vol LXVII No. 88 (New Series), pp. 57–104.
2009
(with Graeme Barker et al) ‘The Cultured Rainforest Project: The second (2008) field season’. Sarawak Museum Journal Vol LXVI, No. 87 (New Series), pp 119–184.
2008
(with Graeme Barker et al) ‘The Cultured Rainforest Project: The first (2007) field season. Sarawak Museum Journal Vol LXV, No. 86 (New Series), pp 121–190.
(with K. Janowski) ‘A dose of passion: Radio, research and change in Africa’. In John Blewitt (ed), Community, Empowerment and Sustainable Development. Dartingon: Green Books.
2007
Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia (co-edited with Fiona Kerlogue). Chapter by Monica Janowski : ‘Introduction. Feeding the right food : The flow of life and the construction of kinship in Southeast Asia’ (pp. 1–22). Copenhagen : NIAS Press.
Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia (co-edited with Fiona Kerlogue). Chapter by Monica Janowski: ‘Being ‘Big’, Being ‘Good’ : Feeding, kinship, potency and status among the Kelabit of Sarawak’ (pp. 91–119). Copenhagen : NIAS Press.
2005
‘Kelabit names and Kelabit titles : Grandparenthood, prestige and kinship’. In James Collins and Hermansyah (eds), The Languages and Literatures of Western Borneo : 144 years of research. Bangi: ATMAUKM.
‘Rice as a bridge between two symbolic economies: Migration within and out of the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak.’ In Reed Wadley (ed), Histories of the Borneo Environment. Economic, political and social dimensions of change and continuity, pp. 245–268. Leiden : KITLV Press.
2004
‘The wet and the dry: the history of rice cultivation in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak.’ In Peter Boomgard and David Henley (eds), Smallholders and Stockbreeders. Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in SE Asia, pp. 139–162. Leiden: KITLV.
2003
The Forest, Source of Life : the Kelabit of Sarawak. London and Kuching : British Museum and Sarawak Museum.
‘Who's in charge around here? Struggle for leadership in a changing world among the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ In Stephen Sparkes and Signe Howell (eds), The House in Southeast Asia: A Changing Social and Economic Domain, pp. 96¬–113. London: Curzon-Routledge-NIAS.
‘Masculinity, potency and pig fat : the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ In Harlan Walker (ed), The Fat of the Land, pp. 130–141. London : Footwork.
2002
‘In the Field: inter-cultural communication through radio and other media’. In Joseph Lo Bianco (ed), Development and Language: Global influences and local effects. Melbourne: Language Australia Ltd.
(with K. Janowski) ‘Communicating innovation: The In the Field project’. LEISA magazine, July, pp. 22–24.
2001
‘Rice, women, men and the natural environment among the Kelabit of Sarawak’. In Alaine Low and Soraya Tremayne (eds), Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth? pp. 107-117. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
2000
‘Ethnicity is in the mind…food is on the table. The Christmas meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak and the Polish community in the UK.’ In T. Dekker, J. Helsloot and C. Wijers (eds), Roots and Rituals: Managing Ethnicity, pp. 485–498. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.
1998
‘Beads, Prestige and Life Force among the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ In Lidia Sciama and Joanne Eicher (eds) Beads: Gender, Making and Meaning, pp. 213–246. Oxford: Berg.
1996
‘The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: forever children.’ La Ricerca Folklorica 34: 55–58.
1995
‘The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak.’ In S.P. Hugh-Jones and J. Carsten (eds), About the House: Levi-Strauss and Beyond, pp. 84-104. Cambridge: CUP.
1993
‘Kelabit beads.’ In Change and Development in Borneo. Selected Papers from the First Extraordinary Conference of the Borneo Research Council, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, August 4-9, 1990, ed. Vinson Sutlive pp. 277300.
‘The symbolic significance of food from the forest among the Kelabit of Sarawak, East Malaysia.’ In C.M. Hladik, A. Hladik, O.F. Linares, H. Pagezy, A. Semple and M. Hadley (eds), Tropical Forests, People and Food. Biocultural Interactions and Applications to Development, pp. 651-660. Paris: UNESCO and Parthenon (Man and the Biosphere Series Volume 13).
1991
‘The making of earthenware cooking pots in the Kelabit Highlands.’ In Lucas Chin and Valerie Mashman (eds), Sarawak Cultural Legacy, pp. 135–147. Kuching: Society Atelier Sarawak.
Rice, Work and Community among the Kelabit of Sarawak, East Malaysia. Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics, University of London.
1988
1988 ‘The motivating forces behind changes in the wet rice agricultural system in the Kelabit Highlands.’ Sarawak Gazette, Vol CXIV No 1504: 9–21.