Publications
- Territory Cults and Power in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar. In Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia, edited by Holly High, 242-267. Singapore: NUS Press, 2022.
- Visual Culture and Identity: Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Eastern Shan State. In Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Myanmar: Contested Identities, edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Hans-Peter Grosshans and Madlen Krueger, 73-91. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
- A Place of Belonging in Myths and Memories: The Origin and Early History of the Imagined Tai Khuen Nation (Chiang Tung/Kyaingtong, Myanmar). Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS) 9:2(2020): 181-201. Open Access at: https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-klemens-karlsson/ (DOI: 10.20495/seas.9.2_181)
- The Songkran Festival in Chiang Tung: A Symbolic Performance of Domination and Subordination between Lowland Tai and Hill Tai. Tai Culture 23(2013): 50-62.
- Material Religion and Ethnic Identity: Buddhist Visual Culture and the Burmanization of the Eastern Shan State. In The Spirit of Things: Materiality in the Age of Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia, edited by Julius Bautista. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2012, P. 61-77.
- Shan Ethnic-Religious Identity: Objects, Art, and Material Religion in the Eastern Shan State, Montira Rato, Khanidtha Kanthavichai (eds.) Shan and Beyond: Essays on Shan Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Politics, Religion and Human Rights. Bangkok: Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2011. P. 117-124. (Proceedings of International Conference on Shan Studies, 15-17 October 2009, Chulalongkorn University).
- Tai Khun Buddhism and Ethnic-Religious Identity" Contemporary Buddhism 10:1 (2009): 93-101. DOI: 10.1080/14639940902968939
- The Formation of Early Buddhist Visual Culture, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 2:1 (2006): 68-95. DOI:10.2752/174322006778053906
- Face to Face with the Absent Buddha: The Formation of Buddhist Aniconic Art. Vol. 15, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Historia Religionum. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1999. Online: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:164388/FULLTEXT01.pdf