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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana	17
Becoming otter: Avatars and the crafting of the self in social virtual reality	5
The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape	5
Local fashion, global imagination: Agency, identity, and aspiration in the diasporic Hmong community	5
In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things	5
Objectified but not Materialized Theory: Human Waste Diagrams Under Erasure	4
A tiny home of one's own	4
Routinizing and scrutinizing: Divergent yet potentially complementary modes of valuing money's material forms	4
9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization	4
Expanding accidental sustainability: A material culture study of clothing	4
From demon to deity: Forging a new iconography for Mahishasur	3
Introduction: Vital waste, or the body extended	3
The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine	2
Anthropological face casts: Towards an ethical processing of their histories and difficult legacies of intimacy and ambiguity	2
Migrant art as embodied and relational homemaking: Integrating oneself in Japan through sensory materiality	2
COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain	2
The matter of value: Circular economy for plastics, extended producer responsibility schemes and recycling in India	2
Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre	2
T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects	2
Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland	2
Invasive materialities: War bunkers as disturbing nodes of collaboration	2
Holding ground: Trees as sites of urban resistance across London and Belfast	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
Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era	1

Learning from the secondary: Rethinking architectural conservation through ‘barn architecture’	1
A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs	1
Crafting nostalgia: Emotional capital and the randoseru’s victory	1
The flamboyance of things: Handmade material culture in new-wave carnival in New Orleans	1
Transmediation as method and intervention: The woven artwork of Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien)	1
Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice	1
Response to Tim Ingold	1
Demonstrably sustainable technics: Endangered material knowledge and paradoxical resilience	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
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey	1
The absence that will not go away	1
Revealing cultural ergonomics and functionality within traditional industry	1
Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue	1
Introduction: Afterlives in objects	1
Bears like us: Blurring species boundaries through embodied experiences of museum skeleton specimen preparation	1
Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space	1
Pith and power: Colonial style in France and French West Africa	0
Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums	0
Fur coat socialism: Social class and gender in socialist Yugoslavia	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
Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China	0
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks	0
Insights from obsolescence: The interpretive potential of skeuomorphs	0
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800	0
(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families	0
Time after death: Material afterlives in the work of estate administration	0
Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings	0
!’Hurasi – Ju\|’hoansi tortoise shell containers from the past and present in Omaheke, Namibia	0
“Samantha's instigations”: Reflections on an archaeology of the future	0
Gija art and material culture: Succession and externality in Northern Australia	0
What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition	0
Soviet time regime in rural society: Musealization and local temporal experiences in a Transcarpathian village, Western Ukraine	0
Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement	0
Garbography: Tracing waste as material data	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 Bahnar canoe and environmental knowledge in the central highlands of Vietnam	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
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry	0
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal	0
The aesthetics of open-ended mourning: The statue of a holy-madman in Dersim, Turkey	0
Memorial ambiguity: A typology of rhetorical effects in Oklahoma and the wider US context	0
Placental afterlives: Shifting notions of waste and value in midwifery practice in early modern Europe	0
Action and affect: Ritual dynamics in Jackson Pollock's creative process	0
Trauma remains: The material afterlives of the 1989 Alton school bus crash	0
Toward a more instrument-centered biography: From object agency to object individuality	0

Care in the air? Atmospheres of care in Swedish pharmacies	0
Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world	0
‘Coming to life’ through crafting miniature dioramas of home	0
The dead wait: Material afterlives in sepulchral spaces	0
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 Curaçao	0
A space for time: Containers as space for duration	0
The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	0
The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories	0
Amazonian materialisms: The life of machines among the Yagua people	0
The material world of textiles and its nostalgic renderings in Romanian contemporary art	0
Persian Mumia: A kingly gift and miraculous cure-all	0
Response to David Howes	0
Ethnography and the augmented interview	0
‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts	0