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Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement. 记忆与物质性：战争和被迫流离失所后的传记物品。

IF 0.9 3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/13591835241275867

Julia Sonnleitner

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The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks 大事物的商业和区域意象：为研究超大型路边地标奠定基础

IF 0.9 3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231225350

Amy Clarke

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Rethinking gender from the ethnographic museum. Introduction to the special issue 从人种博物馆反思性别问题。特刊简介

IF 0.9 3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210664

Josep Almudéver Chanzà, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Fanny Wonu Veys

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Straw craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao 草编工艺、帝国教育和人种学展览是海地和库拉索岛紧密结合的性别生产场所

IF 0.9 3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210689

Charlotte Hammond

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COVID, clay, and the digital: The role of digital media in pottery skill development during the COVID-19 pandemic in Britain COVID，粘土和数字:数字媒体在英国COVID-19大流行期间陶艺发展中的作用

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231212283

Catherine O’Brien

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Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa’afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world 木原由纪(Yuki Kihara)的《天堂营地》(Paradise Camp)有望成为法阿芬博物馆:共享世界中的美妙同居

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210440

Liang-Kai Yu, Eliza Steinbock

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Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings 女性市场的情感物质性:冲突和冲突后环境中的对象角色

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210793

Muhammad Salman Khan

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Masculinized femininity of women characters on the Kabuki stage: Female Onnagata's “cross-gender” performance in the “all-male” theatre 歌舞伎舞台上女性角色的男性化女性特质:女翁长形在“全男性”剧场中的“跨性别”表演

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231211222

Maki Isaka

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Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums 掉进(数字)兔子洞:在数字博物馆中绘制和去殖民化萨法维女性图像

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210438

Ladan Rahbari

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What a Genderful World – Thinking through and making of an exhibition 多么性别的世界-思考和制作一个展览

3区社会学

Journal of Material Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/13591835231210659

Fanny Wonu Veys

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