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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece	13
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	12
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana	11
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	10
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	6
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape	5
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	4
Ritual act, technology, and the efficacy of traditional tattooing among the Igorots of north Luzon, Philippines	4
A tiny home of one's own	4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	3
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended	3
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	3
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure	3
Different ontologies: Shared foes	3
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice	3
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre	3
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization	3
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms	3
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration	3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	3
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects	2
Materiality and media memory: The practical application and meaning construction of the tape recorder in China in 1980s	2
‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran	2
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain	2
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak	2

When Does Infrastructure “Qualify for [Artistic] Attention”? The “ABCs” of Contemporary Art in Post-Liberalization India	2
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs	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
The absence that will not go away	1
Response to Tim Ingold	1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue	1
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection	1
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey	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
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland	1
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory	1
Keeping the family silver: The changing meanings and uses of Manchester’s civic plate	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
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	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
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry	0
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context	0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition	0
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts	0
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	0
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	0
Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe	0
In the service of secrecy: An enveloped history of priority, proof and patents	0
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	0
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world	0
Fijian mats: Embodying and mediating female qualities	0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories	0
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal	0
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse	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
Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao	0
!’Hurasi – Ju\|’hoansi tortoise shell containers from the past and present in Omaheke, Namibia	0
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art	0
Breaking the peace: Representation, affect and materiality in pre-modern England	0
Hunter-gatherer or the other ethnographer? The artist in the age of historical reproduction	0
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all	0
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers	0
Toward an anthropology of plastics	0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe	0

Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia	0
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement	0
Art and anthropology: Twenty-five years of The Traffic in Culture	0
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	0
Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera	0
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	0
‘It's Only Us, Hyenas, Who Profit Out of It’: Wrecked Cars, Leaked Humans, and the Death of the Person-car	0
Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)	0
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800	0
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	0
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks	0
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums	0
Beyond the ‘thingification’ of worlds: Archaeology and the New Materialisms	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
Response to David Howes	0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash	0
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays	0
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	0
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection	0
Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India	0
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs	0
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process	0
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction	0
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families	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
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists	0