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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre	21
Response to Tim Ingold	12
Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe	11
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	10
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	9
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	5
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece	4
Response to David Howes	4
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman	3
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	3
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana	3
Hunter-gatherer or the other ethnographer? The artist in the age of historical reproduction	3
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process	3
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs	3
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry	2
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts	2
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks	2
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection	2
Will the real materialisms please step forward?	2
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	2
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal	2
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	2
‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran	2
A tiny home of one's own	2
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru	1

In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo	1
Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao	1
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context	1
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak	1
Fijian mats: Embodying and mediating female qualities	1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue	1
When Does Infrastructure “Qualify for [Artistic] Attention”? The “ABCs” of Contemporary Art in Post-Liberalization India	1
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families	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
The circular economy of food waste: Transforming waste to energy through ‘make-up’ work	1
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums	1
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain	1
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse	1
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland	1
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800	1
Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate	1
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects	1
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape	1
Ritual act, technology, and the efficacy of traditional tattooing among the Igorots of north Luzon, Philippines	1
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art	1
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	0
Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape	0
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	0
Beyond the ‘thingification’ of worlds: Archaeology and the New Materialisms	0
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure	0
The terrain of thingworlds: Central objects and asymmetry in material culture systems	0
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	0
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	0
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	0
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization	0
Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)	0
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory	0
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	0
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration	0
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso	0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs	0
Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera	0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition	0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe	0
‘It's Only Us, Hyenas, Who Profit Out of It’: Wrecked Cars, Leaked Humans, and the Death of the Person-car	0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	0
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement	0
The dead wait: Material afterlives in sepulchral spaces	0
Toward an anthropology of plastics	0
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended	0
Art and anthropology: Twenty-five years of The Traffic in Culture	0
Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era	0
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space	0
Desire at play: Tourism, credit cards and the American Express Money Card travel board game	0

The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	0
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection	0
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice	0
Different ontologies: Shared foes	0
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world	0
My address is the Soviet Union – or is it? Baltic identity in souvenir production within the Soviet discourse	0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all	0
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash	0
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	0
In the service of secrecy: An enveloped history of priority, proof and patents	0
Between past and future ruins: Post-Ottoman Niš in the album of Knez Milan Obrenović	0
Breaking the peace: Representation, affect and materiality in pre-modern England	0
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice	0
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction	0
Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia	0
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays	0
Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India	0
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms	0
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	0
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey	0
Metonyms of destruction: Death, ruination, and the bombing of Rotterdam in the Second World War	0
The absence that will not go away	0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories	0
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	0
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	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
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers	0