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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana	19
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement	15
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	14
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	8
A tiny home of one's own	5
Expanding accidental sustainability: A material culture study of clothing	5
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape	5
Becoming otter: Avatars and the crafting of the self in social virtual reality	5
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms	4
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure	4
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization	4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	4
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended	4
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice	3
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact	3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	3
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
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects	2
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration	2
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre	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
The matter of value: Circular economy for plastics, extended producer responsibility schemes and recycling in India	2

‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran	2
Materiality and media memory: The practical application and meaning construction of the tape recorder in China in 1980s	2
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland	2
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice	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 flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world	1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue	1
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	1
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space	1
Transmediation as method and intervention: The woven artwork of Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien)	1
Bears like us: Blurring species boundaries through embodied experiences of museum skeleton specimen preparation	1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	1
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	1
The absence that will not go away	1
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey	1
Revealing cultural ergonomics and functionality within traditional industry	1
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs	1
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection	1
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement	1
Toward an anthropology of plastics	1
Response to Tim Ingold	1
Response to David Howes	0
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	0
Getting attached to a classic Mustang. Use, maintenance and the burden of authenticity	0
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction	0
The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing	0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition	0
Refiguring Art and Anthropology, For Whom? A conversation with George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers	0
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800	0
Gija art and material culture: Succession and externality in Northern Australia	0
The Bahnar canoe and environmental knowledge in the central highlands of Vietnam	0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe	0
Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”	0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories	0
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	0
Hunter-gatherer or the other ethnographer? The artist in the age of historical reproduction	0
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal	0
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru	0
Soviet time regime in rural society: Musealization and local temporal experiences in a Transcarpathian village, Western Ukraine	0
Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	0
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts	0
Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera	0
Desire at play: Tourism, credit cards and the American Express Money Card travel board game	0
It's such a waste. Crimes and controversies of festival tents	0
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso	0
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	0

Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao	0
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry	0
A space for time: Containers as space for duration	0
!’Hurasi – Ju\|’hoansi tortoise shell containers from the past and present in Omaheke, Namibia	0
Money, memory objects and material practices in the everyday conduct of inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia	0
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families	0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all	0
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context	0
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks	0
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process	0
Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India	0
Fur coat socialism: Social class and gender in socialist Yugoslavia	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
Garbography: Tracing waste as material data	0
In memory of future earthquakes: Controversial new form and function of a commemorative statue in 1920s Tokyo	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
‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection	0
Creels and catenary wires: Creating community through winter lights displays	0
Art and anthropology: Twenty-five years of The Traffic in Culture	0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash	0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs	0
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art	0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	0
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums	0