Journal of Material Culture

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.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece13
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana12
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things10
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement7
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community5
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape5
Ritual act, technology, and the efficacy of traditional tattooing among the Igorots of north Luzon, Philippines4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur4
A tiny home of one's own4
Different ontologies: Shared foes4
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure3
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization3
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration3
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine3
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms3
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact3
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice3
‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran2
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity2
When Does Infrastructure “Qualify for [Artistic] Attention”? The “ABCs” of Contemporary Art in Post-Liberalization India2
Migrant art as embodied and relational homemaking: Integrating oneself in Japan through sensory materiality2
Making masks: The women behind Ghana's nose covering mandate during the COVID-19 outbreak2
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain2
Materiality and media memory: The practical application and meaning construction of the tape recorder in China in 1980s2
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre2
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects2
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland2
Crafting displacement: Reconfigurations of heritage among Syrian artisans in Amman1
Contemporary archaeology in conflict zones: The materiality of violence and the transformation of the urban space in Temuco, Chile during the social outburst1
Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era1
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey1
Response to Tim Ingold1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory1
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement1
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space1
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice1
The absence that will not go away1
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 discourse1
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans1
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world1
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs1
Transmediation as method and intervention: The woven artwork of Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien)1
Living with landmines: Inhabiting a war-altered landscape1
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue1
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa1
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all 0
Breaking the peace: Representation, affect and materiality in pre-modern England0
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal0
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process0
Gija art and material culture: Succession and externality in Northern Australia0
Response to David Howes0
Material Appropriation for Infant Mortality Reduction: Troubling the discourse0
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers0
!’Hurasi – Ju|’hoansi tortoise shell containers from the past and present in Omaheke, Namibia0
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays0
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction0
Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India0
Desire at play: Tourism, credit cards and the American Express Money Card travel board game0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs0
In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo0
Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration0
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey0
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context0
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection0
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe0
Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition0
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity0
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China0
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru0
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of new heritage”0
The dead wait: Material afterlives in sepulchral spaces0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories0
Between past and future ruins: Post-Ottoman Niš in the album of Knez Milan Obrenović0
Hunter-gatherer or the other ethnographer? The artist in the age of historical reproduction0
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso0
Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)0
Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash0
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art0
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums0
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry0
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies0
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement0
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings0
Toward an anthropology of plastics0
Gazing on invisible men: Introducing the gallery gaze to establish that (in)visibility is in the eye of the beholder at Westminster Menswear Archive0
Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera0
Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia0
‘It's Only Us, Hyenas, Who Profit Out of It’: Wrecked Cars, Leaked Humans, and the Death of the Person-car0
Art and anthropology: Twenty-five years of The Traffic in Culture0
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing0
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families0
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–18000
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