Honorary Professor Graeme Were
Honorary Professor
School of Social Science
Publications
Books
Were, Graeme Lines that connect: Rethinking pattern and mind in the Pacific. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010.
Were, Graeme and Küchler, Susanne Pacific Pattern. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Book Chapters
Were, Graeme (2016). Reviving Kapiak: exploring the material identity of barkcloth in a Melanesian society. In Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy and Hazel Clark (Ed.), The handbook of textile culture (pp. 417-428) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Were, Graeme (2016). The changing face of museums? History, memory and representation in Vietnam. In Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang and Gay Hawkins (Ed.), Globalization, modernity and urban change in Asian cities (pp. 233-244) Hanoi, Vietnam: Knowledge Publishing House.
Were, Graeme (2015). What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand. In Adam Drazin and Susanne Kuchler (Ed.), The social life of materials (pp. 31-47) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Were, Graeme (2015). Coming together: kastom, religiosity and scale-making in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. In Edvard Hviding and Geoffrey White (Ed.), Pacific Alternatives: cultural politics in contemporary Oceania (pp. 200-217) Wantage, United Kingdom: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Were, Graeme and Besley, Jo (2014). Remembering the Queensland floods: community collecting in the wake of natural disaster. In Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis (Ed.), Displaced heritage: responses to disaster, trauma, and loss (pp. 41-49) Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell Press.
Were, Graeme (2013). Of skin, blood and bone: The kapkap of New Ireland. In Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt (Ed.), Melanesia art and encounter (pp. 135-140) London, United Kingdom: British Museum Press.
Were, Graeme (2012). From the known to the unknown: pattern, mathematics and learning in Papua New Guinea. In Helen Forgasz and Ferdinand Rivera (Ed.), Towards equity in mathematics education: gender, culture, and diversity (pp. 415-428) Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Were, Graeme (2012). Extreme collecting: dealing with difficult objects. In Graeme Were and J. C. H. King (Ed.), Extreme collecting: challenging practices for 21st century museums (pp. 1-15) New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Robson, Stuart, MacDonald, Sally, Were, Graeme and Hess, Mona (2012). 3D recording and museums. In Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan (Ed.), Digital humanities in practice (pp. 91-116) London, United Kingdom: Facet.
Were, Graeme (2011). Contemporary textiles and the social fabric of life. In Ruth Mcdougall and Graeme Were (Ed.), Threads: Contemporary textiles and the social fabric (pp. 21-27) Brisbane, Qld., Australia: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.
Were, Graeme and Kuechler, Susanne (2010). Snapshot: Pacific patterns. In Eicher, Joanne B. (Ed.), Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion/ vol. 10, Global perspectives (pp. 116-118) Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Were, Graeme and Kuechler, Susanne (2010). The social world of cloth. In Margaret Maynard (Ed.), Berg encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion (pp. 381-385) Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers.
Were, Graeme (2008). Out of touch? Digital technologies, ethnographic objects and sensory orders. In Helen J. Chatterjee (Ed.), Touch in museums: policy and practice in object handling (pp. 121-134) Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Were, Graeme and Kuecher, Susanne (2006). Malagan woven sculpture: Vavara. In Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier (Ed.), New Ireland : Art of the South Pacific (pp. 190-191) Paris: Five Continents Publications.
Were, Graeme (2006). Symbols of power and leadership. In Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier (Ed.), New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific (pp. 56-57) Paris: Five Continents Publications.
Kuchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2005). Introduction. In Susanne Küchler and Graeme Were (Ed.), The art of clothing: A Pacific experience (pp. xi-xxx) London, United Kingdom: UCL Press.
Were, Graeme (2005). Pattern, efficacy and enterprise : On fabricating connections in Melanesia. In Susanne Küchler and Daniel Miller (Ed.), Clothing as material culture (pp. 159-174) Oxford (U.K.): Berg Publishers.
Journal Articles
Were, Graeme (2017) Representing Doi Moi: history, memory and shifting national narratives in late-socialist Vietnam. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24 6: 1-15. doi:10.1080/13527258.2017.1413677
Were, Graeme (2015) Cac cong nghe di san ky thuat so, suu tap dan toc hoc va su toan ven van hoa: nhung bai hoc tu Melanesia. Museum and Anthropology, 1 4: 9-20.
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: 153-165. doi:10.1080/13527258.2013.842607
Were, Graeme (2014) Digital heritage, knowledge networks, and source communities: understanding digital objects in a Melanesian society. Museum Anthropology, 37 2: 133-143. doi:10.1111/muan.12058
Were, Graeme (2013) Imaging digital lives. Journal of Material Culture, 18 3: 213-222. doi:10.1177/1359183513489927
Were, Graeme (2013) On the material of mats: thinking through design in a Melanesian society. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 3: 581-599. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12051
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: 193-215. doi:10.1093/llc/fqr006
Were, Graeme (2010) Re-engaging the university museum: Knowledge, collections and communities at University College London. Museum Management and Curatorship, 25 3: 291-304. doi:10.1080/09647775.2010.498987
Were, Graeme and Jefferies, Janis (2010) Introduction. Textile, 8 1: 4-9. doi:10.2752/175183510X12580391270146
Were, Graeme (2010) Special issue: Prototypes. Visual Communication, 9 3: 267-272. doi:10.1177/1470357210372715
Were, Graeme and Kuchler, Susanne (2009) Empathy with materials: Rethinking the technical nature of action. Techniques and Culture, 52-53 190-211.
Were, Graeme (2008) Art and archaeology: Gosden, Chris & Frances Larson. Knowing things: Exploring the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 4: 893-894. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00537_4.x
Were, Graeme (2008) Anthropology of 'the senses': Edwards, Elizabeth, Chris Gosden & Ruth B. Phillips (eds). Sensible objects: Colonialism, museums and material culture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 2: 431-432. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00511_1.x
Were, Graeme (2007) Fashioning belief: The case of the Baha'i Faith in Northern New Ireland. Anthropological Forum, 17 3: 239-253. doi:10.1080/00664670701637701
Were, Graeme (2006) Kapkap : The art of connecting in island Melanesia. Pacific Arts, 1 27-35.
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: 659-676. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00256.x
Were, Graeme and Kuchler, Susanne (2003) Clothing and innovation: A Pacific perspective. Anthropology Today, 19 2: 3-5. doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03474.x-i1
Were, Graeme (2003) Objects of Learning: An Anthropological Approach to Mathematics Education. Journal of Material Culture, 8 1: 25-44. doi:10.1177/1359183503008001761
Were, Graeme (2001) Problems in documenting the kapkap: Unravelling pattern in Melanesia. Journal of Museum Ethnograhy, 13 94-105.
Conference Papers
Were, Graeme and Rowlands, Michael (2014). Digital heritage technologies and issues of community engagement and cultural restitution in "New Style" ethnographic museums. In: Sandra Ferracuti, Elisabetta Frasca and Vito Lattanzi, Beyond Modernity: Do Ethnography Museums Need Ethnography? Proceedings of the International Colloquium. International Colloquium: Beyond Modernity. Do Ethnography Museums Need Ethnography?, Rome, Italy, (259-277). 18-20 April, 2012.
Hess, Mona, Robson, Stuart, Millar, Francesca Simon, Were, Graeme, Hviding, Edvard and Berg, Arne Cato (2009). Niabara - The Western Solomon Islands war canoe at the British Museum - 3D documentation, virtual reconstruction and digital repatriation. In: Robert Sablatnig, Martin Kampel and Martin Lettner, 2009 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia : proceedings : VSMM 2009. 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia, Vienna Austria, (41-46). 9-12 September 2009. doi:10.1109/VSMM.2009.12
Creative Work
Were, Graeme, Nguyen Thi Dinh, Pham Thi Mai Thuy, Nguyen Hai Ninh, Tran Thi Thu Ha, Nguyen Thi Thu Hoan and Nguyen Thi Tuong Khanh (2016) Doi Moi: Journey of Dreams. Vietnam National Museum of History,
Research Report
Seminar Paper
Were, Graeme (2011). On the material of mats: thinking through design in a Pacific society, Curl Lecture, , Royal Anthropological Institute.