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Journal of Material Culture is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Anthropological Studies and Insights, Geographies of human-animal interactions, Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Material Culture, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Anthropological Studies and Insights Geographies of human-animal interactions Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Museums and Cultural Heritage Fashion and Cultural Textiles |
| ISSN | 1359-1835 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.57 |
| h-index | 67 |
| i10-index | 337 |
| Total citations | 18,815 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University College London |
| Journal website | mcu.sagepub.com |
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This article uses claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice. It approaches these geographies in two ways. First, it views foods not only as placed cultural artefacts, but also as dis-placed materials and practices, inhabiting many times…
Classical accounts of human evolution posit a progressive differentiation between the hands as instruments of rational intelligence and feet as integral to the mechanics of bipedal locomotion. Yet evolutionists were modelling pedestrian performance on the striding gait of boot-clad Europeans. The bias of head over heels in their accounts follows a long-standing tendency, in western…
Algorithmic recommender systems are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary cultural life online, suggesting music, movies, and other materials to their users. This article, drawing on fieldwork with developers of recommender systems in the US, describes a tendency among these systems’ makers to describe their purpose as ‘hooking’ people – enticing them into frequent or enduring…
The degradation of cultural artefacts is usually understood in a purely negative vein: the erosion of physical integrity is associated with a parallel loss of cultural information. This article asks if it is possible to adopt an interpretive approach in which entropic processes of decomposition and decay, though implicated in the destruction of cultural memory…
This essay explores the basis of the distinction commonly made between works of art or art objects, and 'mere' artefacts, which are useful but not aes thetically interesting or beautiful. It is argued that if the art object is identi fiable as such in the light of the fact that it has an interpretation, as…
