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Journal of Material Culture

Journal of Material Culture


eISSN: 14603586 | ISSN: 13591835 | Current volume: 29 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly

Journal of Material Culture explores the relationship between artefacts and social relations. It draws on a range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, design studies, history, human geography and museology.

"this journal is a good place to find the meat for seminar discussions, and should also be required browsing for students seeking new perspectives on artefacts as well as ways to study and view material culture in the field... There are good thoughts, good methodologies and good ideas to be found here for a wide range of people." Antiquity (Catherine S Fowler, University of Nevada)

The Journal of Material Culture is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, designed to cater for the increasing interest in material culture studies. It is concerned with the relationship between artefacts and social relations irrespective of time and place and aims to systematically explore the linkage between the construction of social identities and the production and use of culture.

The Journal of Material Culture transcends traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries drawing on a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, design studies, history, human geography, museology and ethnography. It aims to promote and develop a general comparative and international perspective by publishing papers on theory and methodology, interpretive strategies and substantive studies of key themes and issues.

Editor in Chief
Ludovic Coupaye University College London, UK
Managing Editors
Dr Rik Adriaans University College London, UK
Dr Ana Carolina Balthazar University College London, UK
Victor Buchli University College London, UK
Dr Timothy Carroll University College London, UK
Ludovic Couypaye University College London, UK
Adam Drazin University College London, UK
Haidy Geismar University College London, UK
Hannah Knox University College London, UK
Susanne Kuechler University College London, UK
Daniel Miller University College London, UK
Rafael Schacter University College London, UK
Tone Walford University College London, UK
Editorial Assistant
Razvan Nicolescu University College London, UK
Editorial Board
Paul Basu University College London, UK
Debbora Battaglia University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Russell W Belk York University, Canada
Richard Bradley University of Reading, UK
James Clifford University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Paolo Favero Universiteit Antwerp, Belgium
Pedro Paulo L. Funari University of Campinas, Brazil
Faye Ginsburg New York University, USA
Kevin Hetherington Open University, UK
Ian Hodder Stanford University, USA
Janet Hoskins University of Southern California, USA
Caroline Humphrey University of Hull, UK
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield, UK
Webb Keane University of Michigan, USA
Orvar Löfgren Lund University, Sweden
John Mack University of East Anglia, UK
David McDougall Australian National University, Australia
W J T Mitchell University of Chicago, USA
Howard Morphy Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Australia
Ashis Nandy Indian Council of Social Science Research, India
Michael O'Hanlon Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK
Bjonor Olsen University of Tromso, Norway
Susan Pearce University of Leicester, UK
Christopher Pinney University College London, UK
Mike Rowlands University College London, UK
Jane Schneider City University of New York, USA
Anthony Shelton University of British Columbia, Canada
Patricia Spyer Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Peter Stallybrass University of Pennsylvania, USA
Julian Thomas University of Manchester, UK
Nicholas J. Thomas Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
Dell Upton University of California, Berkeley, USA
Monika Wagner University of Hamburg, Germany
Graeme Were SOAS University of London, UK
Richard Wilk Indiana University, USA
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