Journal of Material Culture

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Material Culture is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement19
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things14
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community12
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana8
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape6
Becoming otter: Avatars and the crafting of the self in social virtual reality5
Expanding accidental sustainability: A material culture study of clothing4
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms4
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact4
A tiny home of one's own4
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure4
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur4
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended4
The matter of value: Circular economy for plastics, extended producer responsibility schemes and recycling in India3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine3
Reading clay: The temporal and transformative potential of clay in contemporary scientific practice3
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain2
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space2
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity2
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects2
When Does Infrastructure “Qualify for [Artistic] Attention”? The “ABCs” of Contemporary Art in Post-Liberalization India2
Contemporary archaeology in conflict zones: The materiality of violence and the transformation of the urban space in Temuco, Chile during the social outburst2
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration2
‘Rotten and useful’: Compos(t)ing knowledge in Mongol Iran2
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre2
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland2
Materiality and media memory: The practical application and meaning construction of the tape recorder in China in 1980s2
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
Revealing cultural ergonomics and functionality within traditional industry1
The absence that will not go away1
Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era1
Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’1
My address is the Soviet Union – or is it? Baltic identity in souvenir production within the Soviet discourse1
Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection1
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world1
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans1
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs1
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice1
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa1
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement1
Response to Tim Ingold1
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 preparation1
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory1
Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement1
Toward an anthropology of plastics1
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