Skip to menu Skip to content Skip to footer
  • UQ Home
  • Contacts
  • Study
  • Maps
  • News
  • Events
  • Library
  • Give now
  • my.UQ
The University of Queensland
School of Social Science School of Social Science
Site search
Site search
Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • News
  • Study
    • Undergraduate Study
    • Honours
    • Postgraduate Study
    • Higher Degree by Research
    • UQ Research Scholarship Program
  • Research
    • Our Research
    • Childcare Flexibility Project
    • Evidence-Based Policing
    • Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy
  • Our people
    • Academic
    • Executive
    • HDR Students
    • Professional
    • Adjunct and Honorary Academics
  • Student support
  • Engagement
    • Community
    • School Outreach Program
    • School Newsletter
  • Events
    • The Hall Annual Lecture
    • Anthropology Working Papers
    • Archaeology Working Papers
    • Critical Approaches to Museums & Heritage
    • Anthropology Public Lecture
    • Development Practice Public Lecture
  • Contact

Honorary Professor Graeme Were

Honorary Professor
School of Social Science

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (17)
Journal Articles (20)
Conference Papers (2)
Creative Work (1)
Research Report (1)
Seminar Paper (1)

Books

Were, Graeme (2010). Lines that connect: Rethinking pattern and mind in the Pacific. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press.
Were, Graeme and Küchler, Susanne (2005). Pacific Pattern. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.

Book Chapters

Were, Graeme (2016). Reviving Kapiak: exploring the material identity of barkcloth in a Melanesian society. The handbook of textile culture. (pp. 417-428) edited by Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy and Hazel Clark. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Were, Graeme (2016). The changing face of museums? History, memory and representation in Vietnam. Globalization, modernity and urban change in Asian cities. (pp. 233-244) edited by Pham Quang Minh, Nguyen Van Suu, Ien Ang and Gay Hawkins. Hanoi, Vietnam: Knowledge Publishing House.
Were, Graeme (2015). What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand. The social life of materials. (pp. 31-47) edited by Adam Drazin and Susanne Kuchler. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Were, Graeme (2015). Coming together: kastom, religiosity and scale-making in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Alternatives: cultural politics in contemporary Oceania. (pp. 200-217) edited by Edvard Hviding and Geoffrey White. Wantage, United Kingdom: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Were, Graeme and Besley, Jo (2014). Remembering the Queensland floods: community collecting in the wake of natural disaster. Displaced heritage: responses to disaster, trauma, and loss. (pp. 41-49) edited by Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis. Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell Press.
Were, Graeme (2013). Of skin, blood and bone: The kapkap of New Ireland. Melanesia art and encounter. (pp. 135-140) edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt. London, United Kingdom: British Museum Press.
Were, Graeme (2012). From the known to the unknown: pattern, mathematics and learning in Papua New Guinea. Towards equity in mathematics education: gender, culture, and diversity. (pp. 415-428) edited by Helen Forgasz and Ferdinand Rivera. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Robson, Stuart, MacDonald, Sally, Were, Graeme and Hess, Mona (2012). 3D recording and museums. Digital humanities in practice. (pp. 91-116) edited by Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan. London, United Kingdom: Facet.
Were, Graeme (2012). Extreme collecting: dealing with difficult objects. Extreme collecting: challenging practices for 21st century museums. (pp. 1-15) edited by Graeme Were and J. C. H. King. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Were, Graeme (2011). Contemporary textiles and the social fabric of life. Threads: Contemporary textiles and the social fabric. (pp. 21-27) edited by Ruth Mcdougall and Graeme Were. Brisbane, Qld., Australia: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.
Were, Graeme and Kuechler, Susanne (2010). Snapshot: Pacific patterns. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion/ vol. 10, Global perspectives. (pp. 116-118) edited by Eicher, Joanne B.. Oxford, U.K.: Berg.
Were, Graeme and Kuechler, Susanne (2010). The social world of cloth. Berg encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion. (pp. 381-385) edited by Margaret Maynard. Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers.
Were, Graeme (2008). Out of touch? Digital technologies, ethnographic objects and sensory orders. Touch in museums: policy and practice in object handling. (pp. 121-134) edited by Helen J. Chatterjee. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers.
Were, Graeme (2006). Symbols of power and leadership. New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific. (pp. 56-57) edited by Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier. Paris: Five Continents Publications.
Were, Graeme and Kuecher, Susanne (2006). Malagan woven sculpture: Vavara. New Ireland : Art of the South Pacific. (pp. 190-191) edited by Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier. Paris: Five Continents Publications.
Were, Graeme (2005). Pattern, efficacy and enterprise : On fabricating connections in Melanesia. Clothing as material culture. (pp. 159-174) edited by Susanne Küchler and Daniel Miller. Oxford (U.K.): Berg Publishers.
Kuchler, Susanne and Were, Graeme (2005). Introduction. The art of clothing: A Pacific experience. (pp. xi-xxx) edited by Susanne Küchler and Graeme Were. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press.

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). 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 (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 (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
Were, Graeme (2013). Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, QAGOMA, Brisbane, and Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Museum Worlds, 1, 239-240.
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. International Colloquium: Beyond Modernity. Do Ethnography Museums Need Ethnography?, Rome, Italy, 18-20 April, 2012. Rome, Italy: Museo …Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "”Luigi Pigorini".
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. 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia, Vienna Austria, 9-12 September 2009. Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society. 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

Short, Patricia and Were, Graeme (2015). Social assessment of New Ireland Social Protection Program.

Seminar Paper

Were, Graeme (2011). On the material of mats: thinking through design in a Pacific society. Curl Lecture. Royal Anthropological Institute.
© The University of Queensland
Enquiries: +61 7 3365 1111   |   Contact directory
ABN: 63 942 912 684   |   CRICOS Provider No: 00025B
Emergency
Phone: 3365 3333
Privacy & Terms of use   |   Feedback   |   Updated: 14 Mar 2019
Login