OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Material Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece	13
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana	12
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	10
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	7
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape	5
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	5
Different ontologies: Shared foes	4
Ritual act, technology, and the efficacy of traditional tattooing among the Igorots of north Luzon, Philippines	4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	4
A tiny home of one's own	4
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure	3
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization	3
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration	3
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended	3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	3
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms	3
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	3
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice	3
‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran	2
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	2
When Does Infrastructure “Qualify for [Artistic] Attention”? The “ABCs” of Contemporary Art in Post-Liberalization India	2
Migrant art as embodied and relational homemaking: Integrating oneself in Japan through sensory materiality	2
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak	2
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain	2
Materiality and media memory: The practical application and meaning construction of the tape recorder in China in 1980s	2

Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre	2
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects	2
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland	2
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue	1
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	1
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman	1
Contemporary archaeology in conflict zones: The materiality of violence and the transformation of the urban space in Temuco, Chile during the social outburst	1
Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era	1
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey	1
Response to Tim Ingold	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory	1
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement	1
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space	1
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice	1
The absence that will not go away	1
Will the real materialisms please step forward?	1
My address is the Soviet Union – or is it? Baltic identity in souvenir production within the Soviet discourse	1
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans	1
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world	1
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs	1
Transmediation as method and intervention: The woven artwork of Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien)	1
Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape	1
Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera	0
‘It's Only Us, Hyenas, Who Profit Out of It’: Wrecked Cars, Leaked Humans, and the Death of the Person-car	0
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	0
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800	0
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers	0
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks	0
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays	0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all	0
Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India	0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs	0
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal	0
Breaking the peace: Representation, affect and materiality in pre-modern England	0
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process	0
Gija art and material culture: Succession and externality in Northern Australia	0
Response to David Howes	0
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse	0
!’Hurasi – Ju\|’hoansi tortoise shell containers from the past and present in Omaheke, Namibia	0
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction	0
Desire at play: Tourism, credit cards and the American Express Money Card travel board game	0
In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo	0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition	0
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists	0
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	0
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	0

The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories	0
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context	0
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection	0
Hunter-gatherer or the other ethnographer? The artist in the age of historical reproduction	0
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts	0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe	0
Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe	0
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	0
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru	0
The dead wait: Material afterlives in sepulchral spaces	0
Between past and future ruins: Post-Ottoman Niš in the album of Knez Milan Obrenović	0
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso	0
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	0
Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)	0
Gazing on invisible men: Introducing the gallery gaze to establish that (in)visibility is in the eye of the beholder at Westminster Menswear Archive	0
Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao	0
Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia	0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash	0
Art and anthropology: Twenty-five years of The Traffic in Culture	0
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art	0
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums	0
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry	0
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families	0
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	0
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	0
Toward an anthropology of plastics	0