Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1996)  Request e-copy

Vogel's net: traps as artworks and artworks as traps / Alfred Gell

Violent men, violent land: dramatizing the troubles and the landscape of Ulster / Neil Jarman

Technical choices, social categories and meaning among the Andean potters of Las Animas / Dorothy Hosler

The meaning of objects and the meaning of actions: a critical note on the sociology of consumption and theories of clothing / Colin Campbell

Words as things / Language, aesthetics and the objectification of Protestant Evangelicalism / Simon Coleman

Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 1996)  Request e-copy

The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement and geographical knowledges / Ian Cook and Philip Crang

External inducement and non-westernization in the uses of the Ashenika Cushma / Hanne  Veber

Uneasy relationhips: contemporary artists and anthropology / Arnd Schneider

Empowerment in the practice of making and inhabiting: Dong architecture in cultural reconstruction / Xing Ruan

Long houses, long mounds and neolithic enclosures / Richard Bradley

Vol. 1, no. 3 (November 1996) Request e-copy

The dead and the drying: techniques for transforming people and things in the Andes / Bill Sillar

Commodifying affection, authority and  gender in the everyday objects of Japan / Brian McVeigh

Henges and water: towards an elemental understanding of monumentality and landscape in late neolithic Britain / Colin Richards

The tree, the tower and the shaman: the material culture of reisstance of the No. M11 link roads protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London / Beverly Butler

Don't tell, dear: the material culture of tampons and napkins / Rebecca Ginsburg

Understanding heritage / Nick Merriman

Vol.  2, no. 1 (March 1997) Request e-copy

Books, letters, documents: the changing aesthetics of texts in late print culture / Brenda Danet

Sacrificial economy and its objects: rethinking colonial collecting in Oceania / Susanne Kuchler

Vietnam zippos / Ian Walters

Go go dog! and German Turks' demand for pet dogs / Ayse S. Caglar 

Scenes from troubled marriage: Swedish ethnology and material culture studies / Orvar Lofgren

An African art history? / William Rea

ublic transports of delight / David Zeitlyn

Vol. 2, no. 2 (July 1997)  Request e-copy

A house turned inside out: inhabiting space in a Yemeni City / Gabrielle Vom Bruck

A small company of actors: a critique of style / Robin Boast

Museum topology and the will to connect / Kevin Hetherington

Narrative identity and artistic narration: the story of adolescents' art / Kati Rantala 

Performance and possession: rethinking the act of purchase in the light of the car boot sale / Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe

Vol. 2, no. 3 (November 1997)  Request e-copy

Design as a practice of modernity: a case for the study of the coffee table in the mid-century domestic interior / Judy Attfield

Tibetan carpets: from folk art to global commodity / Eric McGuckin

Christian mind and worldly matters: religion and materiality in nineteenth-century gold coast / Birgit Meyer

Consuming ambivalence: Eighteenth-century public discourse on consumption and Mandeville's legacy / Roberta Sassatelli

Masks and masquerades / Nicolas Argenti

Vol. 3, no. 1 (March 1998) Request e-copy

What Capuchin monkeys can tell us about the origins of Hominid material culture / Gregory Charles Westergaard

Replication and restoration: ways of making maritime heritage / Eric Laurier

Hot scorpions, sweet peacocks: Kachchhe art, architecture and action / Vishvajit Pandya

Playing with things: objects and subjects in Windsurfing / Tim Dant

The socio-semiotics and material culture / Julian Thomas

Blurred genres?: archaeological contemporaries in theory / Bjornar Olsen

Vol. 3, no. 2 (July 1998)  Request e-copy

Doing porridge: food and social relations in a male prison / Gill Valentine and Beth Longstaff

Selling mother's love?: mail order village food in Japan / John Knight

From theory to practice" experiencing the nation in everyday life / Catherine Palmer

Ancestral voices: Trevini -  a case study of meta-masking in the Notting Hill carnival / Patricia Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers

Public museums, museum photography, and the limits of reflexivity: an essay on the exhibition: camera obscured: photographic documentation and the public museum / Georgina Born

Vol. 3, no. 3 (November 1998)  Request e-copy

What a rag rug means / Carolyn Steednman

Monumental colonialism: megaliths and the appropriation of Australia's aboriginal past / Lynette Russell and Ian J. McNiven

Where eagles dare: landscape, animals and the neolithic of Orkney / Andrew Jones

On the relevance of Basil Bernstein's theory of codes to the sociology of art museums / Gordon J. Fyfe

A design for life: interpreting the art of Catalhoyuk / Jonathan Last

Vol. 4, no. 1 (March 1999) Request e-copy

The case of the misplaced ponchos: speculations concerning the history of cloth in Polynesia / Nicholas Thomas

The lives of the Tibeto-Nepalese carpet / Tom O'Neill

Virtual colonization / Martin Hall

The liberty Bell / From commodity to sacred object /
Robey Callahan 

Consumption in East Germany: the seduction and betrayal of things / Milena Veenis

Vol. 4, no. 2 (July 1999) Request e-copy

Packaged sentiments" the social meanings of greeting cards / Alexandra Jaffe

Money and the semiotics of ecosystem dissolution / Alf Hornborg

Panos for the Brancus: interweaving cultures, producing cloth, visualizing experience, making anthropology / Sarah Pink

Accounting for materialism in four cultures / Guliz Ger and Russell W. Belk

In pots we trust: the processing of clay and symbols in sub-Saharan Africa / Olivier P. Gosselain

Vol. 4, no. 3 (November 1999)  Request e-copy

Any room for aesthetics?: shopping practices of heavily indebted consumers / Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen

The commercial construction of 'new nations' / Robert J. Foster

The collections of sir John Lubbock, the first Lord Avebury (1834-1913): 'an open book' / Janet Owen

Mementoes as transitional objects in Human displacement / David Parkin

Contending Indian art works / Helle Bundgaard

The essential attitude: authenticity in primitive art, ethnographic performances and museums / Sean Kingston

Vol. 5, no. 1 (March 2000) Request e-copy

The fame of Trinis: websites as traps / Daniel Miller

Refiguring the antique the antique / Brigitte Descrochers

Bodies of metal, shells of memory: trench art, and the great war re-cycled / Nicholas J. Saunders

Dangerous woods and perilous pearl shells: the fabricated politics of a longhouse in Pangia, Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Appropriating anthropology?: document and rhetoric / Catherine De Lorenzo

Rationalizing passion / Sally MacDonald

Vol.  5, no. 2 (July 2000) Request e-copy

Kitsch as a repetitive system: a problem for the theory of taste hierarchy / Sam Binkley

Animal magic: the mythological significance of elks, boats and humans in North Swedish rock art / Hans Bolin

The factory: fabricating the state / Catherine Alexander

Nature, culture, clitter: distinguishing between cultural and geomorphological landscapes; the case of Hilltop Tors in South-West England / Christopher Tilley, Sue Hamilton, Stephan Harrison and Ed Anderson

How Hello Kitty commodifies the cute, cool and camp: consumutopia versus control in Japan / Brian J. McVeigh

Vol. 5, no. 3 (November 2000) Request e-copy

The therapy of consumption motivation research and the new Italian housewife, 1958-62 / Adam Arvidsson

Showing and telling: Australian land rights and material moralities / Veronica Strang

Defrosting  and freezer: from novelty to convenience: a narrative of normalization / Elizabeth Shove and Dale Southerton

He was a real baby with baby things: a material culture analysis of personhood, parenthood and pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne

Megalithic Follies: Soane's Druidic remains and the display of monuments / Christopher Evans

Vol.  6, no. 1 (March 2001) Request e-copy

A praxeological approach to subjectivation in a material world / Jean-Pierre Warnier

what's in price?: an ethnography of tribal art in auction / Haidy Geismar

Hummel figurines: molding a collectible Germany / John Chaimov

The making and marking of the Japanese and the western in Japanese contemporary material culture / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni

I ♥ Islam: popular religious commodities, sites of inscription, and transnational Sierra Leonen identity / JoAnn D'Alisera

Vol. 6, no. 2 (July 2001) Request e-copy

Domestic objects and the taste epiphany: a resource for consumption methodology / Ian Woodward

Personhood and social relations in the British neolithic with a study from the isle of man / Chris Fowler

From garden suburb to olde city ward: longitudinal study o social process and incremental architecture in Jaipur, India / R. Thomas Rosin

No rules, only choices?: repositioning the self within the fashion system in relation to expertise and meaning: a case study of colour and image consultancy / Annie Grove-White

The Casser Maison ritual: constructing ritual: constructing the self by emptying the home / Jean-Sebastien Marcoux

French anthropology and material culture / Laurence Faure-Rouesnel

Vol. 6, no.3 (November 2001) Request e-copy

Classifying the material: food textiles and status in north Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton

Unprovenanced material culture and Freud's collection of antiquities / Peter Ucko

Charged artifacts and the detonation of liminality: Teddy-bear diplomacy in the newborn incubator machine / Kyra Marie Landzelius

Washing machines make lazy women: domestic appliances and the negotiation of women's propriety in Soweto / Helen Meintjes

Vol. 7. no. 1 (March 2002) Request e-copy

Disposability and dispossession in the twentieth century / Gavin Lucas

Passion and profit: the world of amateur traders in Philately / Paul Van Der Grijp

Notes on the life history of a pot sherd / Cornelius Holtorf

Hegemony and homogeneity: donor choices of Israel recipients of donor insemination / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yoram S. Carmeli, Yigal Madjar and Ruth Weissenberg

Photographs, skeuomorphs and marionettes: some thoughts on mind, agency and object / Carl Knappett

Vol. 7, no. 2 (July 2002) Request e-copy

Textual strategies, plastic tactics" reading Batman and Barbie / Kendall R. Philipps

Race sells: racialized trade cards in 18-century Britain / Elizabeth Kim

Syncretic objects: material culture of syncretism among the Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan / Chang-Kwo Tan

After-lives of the Mongolian Yurt: the archaeology of a Chinese tourist camp / Christopher Evans and Caroline Humphrey

The ethos of thrift: the promotion of bank saving in Finland during  the 1950s / Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Mika Pantza

Gustaf Sobin, Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc / Reviewed by Hannah Sackett 

Vol. 7. no. 3 (November 2002) Request e-copy

Goods, chattels and sundry items: constructing 19th-century Anglo-Indian domestic life / Swati Chattopadhyay

Branding perfection: foreign as self; self as foreign-foreign / Narmala Halstead

Nose and eyes for identity: accoutrements and enumerations of ethnicity among the Jatha of Kachchh / Vishvajit Pandya

Spirits and souls of business: new Russians, magic and the esthetics of Kitsch / Galina Lindquist

Making fashion material / Sophie Woorward

Vol. 8, no. 1 (2003) Request e-copy

Mind, gaze and engagement: understanding the environment / James G. Carrier

Objects of learning: an anthropological approach to Mathematics education / Graeme Were

Excess in the city?: the consumption of imported prints in colonial Calcutta c.1780-c1795 / Natasha Eaton

Strands which refuse to be braided: Hair samples from Beatrice Blackwood's Ojibwe collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum / Laura Peers

Remembering psychiatry's past: the psychiatric collection and its display at Porirua hospital museum, New Zealand / Catharine Coleborne

Vol. 8, no. 2 (July 2003) Request e-copy

Owning creativity: cultural property and the efficacy of custom on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach

William Ricketts sanctuary, Victoria (Australia): sculpting nature and culture in a primitivist theme park / Marcia Langton and Bruno David

Chalk steps on the museum floor: the pulses of objects in an art installation / Albena Yaneva

Exorcizing remains: architectural fragments as intermediaries between history and individual experience / Melanie Van Der Hoorn

Landscaping death: resting places for Cornish identity / Patrick Laviolette

Vol. 8, no. 3 (2003) Request e-copy

Preface / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Mark Peterson

Introduction: Matter unbound / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Vanishing: seed's cyclicality / Ann Grodzin's Gold

Consuming: Andean televisions / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Sacrificing: Moche bodies / Erica Hill

Fashioning: Zambian moments / Karen Tranberg Hansen

Vol. 9, no. 1 (March 2004) Request e-copy

Introduction: Materializing ethnography / Haidy Geismar and Heather A. Horst

A pilgrimage Home:  tombs, burial and belonging in Jamaica / Heather A. Horst

My own island home: the Orkney homecoming / Paul Basu

The materiality of contemporary art in Vanuatu / Haidy Geismar

Shedding skins: the materiality of divestment in India / Lucy Norris

Material and memory: photography in the western Solomon Islands / Chris Wright

Living history: trees and metaphors of identity in an English Forest / Andrew Garner

Vol. 9, no. 2 (July 2004) Request e-copy

Introduction / Nelson H.H. Graburn and Aaron Glass

Return to sender: on the politics of cultural property and the proper address of art / Aaron Glass

Authentic Inuit art: creation and exclusion in the Canadian north / Nelson H.H. Graburn

Figurative repatriation: first nations artist warriors recover, reclaim, and return cultural property through self-definition / Jennifer Kramer

Circulating aboriginality / Charlotte Townsend-Gault

Social agency and the cultural value(s) of the art object / Fred Myers 

Vol. 9, no. 3 (November 2004) Request e-copy

Reterritorialization and whispers from the walls / Jennifer Way

Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past / Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis

Death warmed up: the agency of bodies and bones in early Anglo-Saxon cremation rites / Howard Williams

A garment in the dock; or, how the FBI illuminated the prehistory of a pair of denim jeans / Kitty Hauser

Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet / Tim Ingold

Vol. 10, no. 1 (2005) Request e-copy

Towards a phenomenology of the concrete megastructure: space and perception at the Brunswick Centre, London / Clare  Melhuish

Embodying a site: choreographing  Prambanan / Alessandra Lopez Y. Royo

Death of a mural / Jonathan McCormick and Neil Jarman

cultivating  Japanese whiteness: the whitening cosmetics boom and the Japanese identity / Mikiko Ashikari

Common senses: water, sensory experience and the generation of meaning / Veronica Strang

Vol. 10, no. 2 (2005) Request e-copy

Enlivened objects: the social life, death and rebirth of radio as commodity in Afghanistan / Andrew Skuse

The hidden life of stones: historicity, materiality and the value of Candoble objects in Bahia / Roger Sansi-Roca

Domestic boundaries: privacy, visibility and the Norwegian window / Pauline Garvey

Lost in translation: from Omiyage to souvenir: beyond aesthetics of the Japanese Office Ladies' Gaze in Hawaii / Guido Carlo Pigliasco

Indian yellow: making and breaking the imperial palette / Jordanna Bailkin

Vol. 10, no. 3 (2005) Request e-copy

British identities through pottery in praxis: the case study of a royal navy ship in the south Atlantic / Virginia Dellino-Musgrave

It's not forever: the material culture of hope / Fiona R. Parrott

All that is rare, characteristics or beautiful: design and the defense of tradition in colonial India, 1851-1903 / Abigail S. McGowan

After authors: signifying fashion from Paris to Tehran / Alec Balesescu

Waste matter-the debris of industrial ruins and the disordering of the material world / Tim Edensor

Vol. 11, nos. 1-2 (2006) Request e-copy

Introduction: identity, place, landscape and heritage / Christopher Tilley

Landscape as a provocation: reflections on moving mountains / Doreen Massey

Modernity, community and the landscape idea / Denis  Cosgrove

Tasting the waters: discriminating identities in the waters of Blue Mud Bay / Howard Morphy and Frances Morphy

Team spirit: the pervasive influence of place-generation in community building activities along the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach

words in stone?: agency and identity in a Nazi landscape / Sharon MacDonald

Spatial cleansing: monumental vacuity and the idea of the west / Michael Herzfeld

Landscape, myth and time / Eric Hirsch

Who said romance was dead? / Mark Edmonds

Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape / Marin Hall

Animated images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland / Andy Jones

Materializing stonehenge: the stonehenge riverside project and new discoveries / Mike Parker Pearson et al.

Vol. 11, no. 3 (2006) Request e-copy

Vision, media, noise and the percolation of time: symmetrical approaches to the mediation of the material world / Christopher L. Witmore

Metaconsumptive practices and the circulation of objectifications / Shalani Shankar

Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things / Caitlin DeSilvey

Ambivalent heritage: between affect and ideology in a colonial cemetery / Ashish Chadha

Expertise and inability: cultured materials and the reason for some retreating lawns in London / Russell Hitchings