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Authored Books

Were, Graeme (2022) Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam. London: Routledge. (Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia)

Were, Graeme (2019) How Materials Matter: Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific. Oxford: Berghahn.

Were, Graeme (2010) Lines That Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific. Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press.

Küchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2005) Pacific Pattern. London: Thames and Hudson.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Were, Graeme and King, J. C. H., eds. (2012) Extreme collecting: Challenging practices for 21st century museums. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-238.

Book Chapters

Were, Graeme (2021) 'Imagining maritime conflict landscapes: Reactive exhibitions, sovereignty, and representation in Vietnam.' In: Saunders, Nicholas J. and Cornish, Paul, (eds.), Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and Meaning in Contested Place. London: Routledge, pp. 311-324.

Were, Graeme (2021) 'Returned not Remade: Visuality, Authority and Potentiality of Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society.' In: Fortis, Paolo and Küchler, Susanne, (eds.), Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)

Were, Graeme (2020) 'On the Substance of Surfaces: the Calculated Nature of Materials and Design in Melanesia.' In: Anusas, Mike and Simonetti, Christian, (eds.), Surfaces: Transformations of Body, Materials and Earth. United Kingdom: Routledge, pp. 139-151. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)

Were, Graeme (2019) 'Medical materialities: A response.' In: Parkhurst, Aaron and Carroll, Timothy, (eds.), Medical Materialities: Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology. London: Routledge.

Were, Graeme (2018) 'Texture.' In: Callan, Hilary and Coleman, Simon, (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. London: Wiley.

Were, Graeme (2016) 'Reviving Kapiak: exploring the material identity of barkcloth in a Melanesian society.' In: Jefferies, Janis, Wood Conroy, Diana and Clark, Hazel, (eds.), The Handbook of Textile Culture. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 417-428.

Were, Graeme (2016) 'The changing face of museums? History, memory and representation in Vietnam.' In: Phạm, Quang Minh, Nguyễn, Văn Sửu, Ang, Ien and Hawkins, Gay, (eds.), Globalization, modernity and urban change in Asian cities. Hanoi: Knowledge Publishing House, pp. 233-244.

Were, Graeme (2015) 'What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand.' In: Drazin, Adam and Küchler, Susanne, (eds.), The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society. London: Routledge, pp. 31-47.

Were, Graeme (2015) 'Coming together: kastom, religiosity and scale-making in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.' In: Hviding, Edvard and White, Geoffrey, (eds.), Pacific Alternatives: cultural politics in contemporary Oceania. Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing, pp. 200-217.

Were, Graeme and Besley, Joanna (2014) 'Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster.' In: Convery, Ian, Corsane, Gerard and Davis, Peter, (eds.), Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 41-50. (Heritage Matters, vol.16)

Were, Graeme (2013) 'Of skin, blood and bone: the kapkap of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.' In: Bolton, Lissant, Thomas, Nicholas, Bonshek, Elizabeth, Adams, Julie and Burt, Ben, (eds.), Melanesia: Art and Encounter. Hawai'i: University of Hawaii Press.

Were, Graeme (2012) 'Extreme collecting: Dealing with difficult objects.' In: Were, Graeme and King, J. C. H., (eds.), Extreme Collecting Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-16.

Were, Graeme (2012) 'From the Known to the Unknown: Pattern, Mathematics and Learning in Papua New Guinea.' In: Forgasz, Helen and Rivera, Ferdinand, (eds.), Towards Equity in Mathematics Education: Gender, Culture, and Diversity. Berlin: Springer Nature, pp. 415-428.

Were, Graeme and Küchler, Susanne (2010) 'Snapshot: Pacific Patterns.' In: Eicher, Joanne B. and Tortora, Phyllis G., (eds.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Volume 10: Global Perspectives. Oxford: Berg, pp. 116-118.

Küchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2010) 'The Social World of Cloth in the Pacific Islands.' In: Maynard, Margaret, (ed.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Volume 7: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 381-386.

Were, Graeme (2005) 'Pattern, Efficacy And Enterprise: On the Fabrication of Connections In Melanesia.' In: Küchler, Susanne and Miller, Daniel, (eds.), Clothing as Material Culture. Oxford: Berg, pp. 159-174.

Journal Article

Were, Graeme (2022) 'Urban Development and Fishing Livelihoods in the Museum: Nostalgia and Discontent in Central Vietnam.' Museum and Society, 20 (2). pp. 221-235.

Were, Graeme (2019) 'Thirty years of Doi Moi in the museum: Changing representations of development in late-socialist Vietnam.' Asian Education and Development Studies, 8 (4). pp. 463-473.

Were, Graeme (2018) 'Representing Doi Moi: history, memory and shifting national narratives in late-socialist Vietnam.' International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24 (6). pp. 6872-686.

Were, Graeme (2015) 'Digital heritage in a Melanesian context: Authenticity, integrity and ancestrality from the other side of the digital divide.' International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (2). pp. 153-165.

Were, Graeme (2014) 'Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society.' Museum Anthropology, 37 (2). pp. 133-143.

Were, Graeme (2013) 'Imaging digital lives.' The Journal of Material Culture, 18 (3). pp. 213-222.

Were, Graeme (2013) 'On the materials of mats: thinking through design in a Melanesian society: On the materials of mats.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (3). pp. 581-599.

Hess, Mona, Millar, Francesca Simon, Robson, Stuart, MacDonald, Sally, Were, Graeme and Brown, Ian (2011) 'Well connected to your digital object? E-curator: A web-based e-science platform for museum artefacts.' Literary and Linguistic Computing, 26 (2). pp. 193-215.

Were, Graeme (2010) 'Re-engaging the university museum: knowledge, collections and communities at University College London.' Museum Management and Curatorship, 25 (3). pp. 291-304.

Were, Graeme (2010) 'Special issue: prototypes.' Visual Communication, 9 (3). pp. 267-272.

Jefferies, Janis and Were, Graeme (2010) 'Introduction.' Textile: Cloth and Culture, 8 (1). pp. 4-9.

Küchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2009) 'Empathie avec la matière: Comment repenser la nature de l’action technique.' Techniques et culture (52/53). pp. 190-211.

Were, Graeme (2007) 'Fashioning Belief: The Case of the Baha'i Faith in Northern New Ireland.' Anthropological Forum, 17 (3). pp. 239-253.

Were, Graeme (2005) 'Thinking through images: Kastom and the coming of the baha'is to northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11 (4). pp. 659-676.

Küchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2003) 'Clothing and innovation: A Pacific perspective.' Anthropology Today, 19 (2). pp. 3-5.

Were, Graeme (2003) 'Objects of Learning: An Anthropological Approach to Mathematics Education.' The Journal of Material Culture, 8 (1). pp. 25-44.

Monographs and Working Papers

Were, Graeme (2020) Exploring Urban Equality and Heritage Livelihoods in the Museum of Da Nang, Vietnam. London: Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW). KNOW Working Paper No. 3.

Book Reviews

Were, Graeme (2008) 'Review of: Knowing things: exploring the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945 - By Chris Gosden and Frances Larson.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (4). pp. 893-894.