2010

Cynthia Werner and Holly Barcus (in press) "The Kazakhs of Western Mongolia: Transnational Migration from 1990-2008" Asian Ethnicity.

2009

Cynthia Werner (2009) “Bride Abduction in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a Shift Towards Patriarchy Through Local Discourses of Shame and Tradition” Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 15:314-331.

Cynthia Werner and Holly Barcus (2009) “Mobility, Immobility and Return Migration: The Impact of Transnational Migration on the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia” Migration Letters 6(1):49-62.

Cynthia Werner (2009) “Ethics Training at Texas A&M” Anthropology News 50(6): 29.

2008

“The Moral Dimensions of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in Texas” In Economics and Morality. Edited by Lynne Milgram and Katherine Brown. Altamira Press. Pp. 143-166.

Cynthia Werner (2008) Book Review. Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan. Edited by Paula Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2001. American Anthropologist 110(1):139-140.

Cynthia Werner (2008) Book Review. Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. Edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, Indiana University Press, 2007. The Russian Review 67(3): 547-48.

2007

Kathleen Purvis-Roberts, Cynthia Werner, and Irene Frank (2007) “Perceived Risks from Radiation and Nuclear Testing Near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: A Comparison Between Physicians, Scientists and the Public” Risk Analysis 27(2):291-302.

Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts (2007) “Unraveling the Secrets of the Past: Contested Versions of Nuclear Testing in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan” In Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacy of the Cold War. Edited by Barbara Johnston. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. Pp. 277-298.

Holly Barcus and Cynthia Werner (2007) “Transnational Identities: Mongolian Kazakhs in the Twenty-first Century” Geographische Rundschau International Edition
3(3):4-10


2006

Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts (2006) “After the Cold War: International Politics, Domestic Policy, and the Nuclear Legacy in Kazakhstan” Central Asian Survey 25(4): 461-480.

2005

Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, eds. (2005) Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 24. Elsevier Science.

2004

Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell, eds. (2004) Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic. Society for Economic Anthropology Book Series. Altamira Press.

Cynthia Werner (2004) “Women, Marriage, and the Nation-State: The Rise of Nonconsensual Bride Kidnapping in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan.” In Transformations of Central Asian States: From Soviet Rule to Independence. Edited by Pauline Jones Luong. Cornell University Press. Pp. 59-89.

Cynthia Werner (2004) "Feminizing the New Silk Road: Women Traders in Rural Kazakhstan." In Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation-Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism. Edited by Carol Nechemias and Kathleen Kuehnast. Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 105-126.

Cynthia Werner (2004) “Kazakhs.” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures. Edited by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp. 572-580.

Cynthia Werner (2004) Book Review. Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism. Edited by Ruth Mandel and Caroline Humphrey, Berg, 2002. American Ethnologist 31(3). Online: www.music.columbia.edu/%7Ececenter/AES/amereth.html.

Cynthia Werner (2004) “Ethical Dilemmas of Bride Kidnapping in Central Asia.” Anthropology News 45(6): 5, 7.

Cynthia Werner (2004) “Kazakhs.” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures. Edited by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp. 572-580.

2003

Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, eds. (2003) Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 22. Elsevier Science.

Cynthia Werner (2003) “The New Silk Road: Mediators and Tourism Development in Post-Soviet Central Asia.” Ethnology 42(2):141-59.

Cynthia Werner (2003) “Between Market and Family: Women on the New Silk Road” Gender at Work in Economic Life. Edited by Gracia Clark. Altamira Press. Pp. 115-124.

Cynthia Werner, Kathleen Purvis and Nurlan Ibraev (2003) “Comparative Perceptions of Risk from Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan: Preliminary Results and Proposed Research” Central Eurasian Studies Review 2(2):11-14.

2002

Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, eds. (2002) Social Dimensions in the Economic Process. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 21. Elsevier Science.

2001

Tina Carlsen, Leif Petersen, Brant Ulsh, Cynthia Werner, Kathleen Purvis and Anna Sharber (2001) “Radionuclide Contamination at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk Test Site: Implications on Human and Ecological Health” Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 7(4):943-955.

2000

Cynthia Werner (2000) “Gifts, Bribes and Development in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan” Human Organization 59(1):11-22. Reprinted In (2002) Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach. Edited by Jeffrey Cohen and Norbert Dannhaeuser. Altamira Press. Pp. 183-208.

Cynthia Werner (2000) “Consuming Modernity, Imagining Tradition: Transnational Processes, National Identity Formation and Wedding Feasts in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan” Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia 18(2):125-134.

Cynthia Werner (2000) Book Review. Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities. By Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, Annette Bohr and Edward Allworth, Cambridge, 1998. Nationalities Papers
28(2):375-377.


1999

Cynthia Werner (1999) “The Dynamics of Feasting and Gift Exchange in Rural Kazakhstan” In Contemporary Kazaks: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Edited by Ingvar Svanberg. London: Curzon Press. Pp. 47-72.

Cynthia Werner (1999) Book Review. Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality and Modernity. By Laurel Kendall, California, 1996. American Ethnologist 26(3):769-770.

Cynthia Werner (1999) Book Review. The End of Nomadism? Society, State and Environment in Inner Asia. By Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath, Duke, 1999. Nationalities Papers 27(4):710-712.

1998

Cynthia Werner (1998) “Household Networks and the Security of Mutual Indebtedness in Rural Kazakhstan” Central Asian Survey 17(4):597-612.

Cynthia Werner (1998) “Gift Exchange and the Transition to a Market in a Kazakh Village" Akhmed Yasavi University Herald 1:12-23.

Cynthia Werner (1998) “Women and the Art of Household Networking in Rural Kazakhstan” Islamic Quarterly 41(1):52-68.

1997

Cynthia Werner (1997) “The Eighth Annual Nava’i Lecture. Marketing Gifts: The Dynamics of Change in a Kazakh Village,” Central Asia Monitor 6:1-7.

Cynthia Werner (1997) “Marriage, Markets and Merchants: Changes in Wedding Feasts and Household Consumption Patterns in Rural Kazakhstan” Culture and Agriculture 19(1/2):6-13.

1994

Cynthia Werner (1994) “A Preliminary Assessment of the Attitudes Toward the Privatization of Agriculture in Contemporary Kazakhstan” Central Asian Survey 13(2):295-304.