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“Political Theologies of Justice: Meritocratic Values from a Global Perspective”. In: Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi. . Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2022. pp. 19-40. puett_political_theologies_of_justice.pdf

“Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty” . In: Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern. New York: Columbia University Press ; 2022. pp. 137-161. puett_humanizing_the_divine.pdf

“Creating Worlds: Imagination, Interpretation, and the Subjunctive”. In: Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality. Edited by Andrew Brandel and Marco Motta. New York: Fordham University Press ; 2021. pp. 181-196. puett_creating_worlds.pdf

Puett M. “Formations of Knowledge in Chinese Late Antiquity”. In: Wissensoikonomien: Ordnung und Transgression vormoderner Kulturen. Edited by Nora Schmidt, Nikolas Pissis, and Gyburg Uhlmann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz ; 2021. pp. 123-133. puett_formations_of_knowledge_in_chinese_late_antiquity.pdf

Puett M. “Impagination, Reading, and Interpretation in Early Chinese Texts.”. In: Impagination - Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication. Edited by Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Anthony Grafton, and Glenn Warren Most. Berlin: De Gruyter ; 2021. pp. 93-110. puett_impagination.pdf

Puett M. “Ritual as Theory, Theory as Ritual.”. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2020;10 (3) :1106–1108. puett_ritual_as_theory.pdf

Puett M. “Wittgenstein on Frazer.”. In: The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Edited by Giovanni da Col and Stephan Palmié. Chicago: Hau Books ; 2020. pp. 135-151. puett_wittgenstein.pdf

Puett M. “Life, Domesticated and Undomesticated: Ghosts, Sacrifice, and the Efficacy of Ritual Practice in Early China.” . HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2019;9 (2) :439-460. puett_life_domesticated_and_undomesticated.pdf

Puett M. “Foreword.”. In: Tsai, C. C.; Bruya B Confucius, The Analects: An Illustrated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press ; 2018. pp. ix-x. puett_foreword_tsai_analects.pdf

Puett M. “Who is Confucius in Today’s China?”. In: Rudolph, J; Szonyi M The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Cambridge: Harvard University Press ; 2018. pp. 231-236. puett_who_is_confucius.pdf

Puett M. “Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China.”. In: Lloyd GER, Zhao JJ Ancient Greece and China Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 2018. pp. 160-185. puett_genealogies_of_gods_ghosts_and_humans.pdf

Puett M. “Text and Commentary: The Early Tradition”. In: Denecke W, Li W-yee, Tian X The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2017. pp. 112-122. puett_text_and_commentary.pdf

Puett M. “Early China in Eurasian History”. In: Szonyi M A Companion to Chinese History. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell ; 2017. pp. 89-105. puett_early_china_in_eurasian_history.pdf

Puett M. Foreword: “In Praise of Play”. In: Hamayon R Why We Play: An Anthropological Study. Chicago: HAU Books ; 2016. pp. xv-xix. puett_in_praise_of_play.pdf

Puett M. “Manifesting Sagely Knowledge: Commentarial Practice in Chinese Late Antiquity”. In: Varsano P The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press ; 2016. pp. 303-331. puett_manifesting_sagely_knowledge.pdf

Puett M, Davis K. “Periodization and ‘The Medieval Globe’: A Conversation.”. The Medieval Globe. 2016; 2 (1) :1-14. davis_puett_medieval_globe.pdf

Puett M. “Constructions of Reality: Metaphysics in the Ritual Traditions of Classical China”. In: Li C, Perkins F Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 2015. pp. 120-129. puett_constructions_of_reality.pdf

Puett M. “Ritual and Ritual Obligations: Perspectives on Normativity from Classical China”. The Journal of Value Inquiry. 2015;49 (4). puett_ritual_and_ritual_obligations.pdf

Puett M. “Ghosts, Gods, and the Coming Apocalypse: Empire and Religion in Early China and Ancient Rome”. In: Scheidel W State Power in Ancient China and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2015. pp. 230-259.