Publications
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). 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 (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 (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 (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 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). 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, 52-53190-211.
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, 127-35.
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, 1394-105.
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
Seminar Paper
Were, Graeme (2011). On the material of mats: thinking through design in a Pacific society. Curl Lecture. Royal Anthropological Institute.