Professor Graeme Were

Research summary

Graeme Were is the chair and professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. He has held positions at the University of Queensland, University College London, the British Museum, and Goldsmiths College London, and joined Bristol in 2018. His research interests include museum anthropology, digital heritage and material culture studies, and he has a regional specialism in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. His recent work includes (co-edited with J.C.H. King) Extreme collecting (Berghahn, 2012).

Graeme is currently finalising a new monograph titled 'How Materials Matter: Design, Innovation, and Materiality in the ...

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Biography

Graeme Were is the chair and professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol. He has held positions at the University of Queensland, University College London, the British Museum, and Goldsmiths College London, and joined Bristol in 2018. His research interests include museum anthropology, digital heritage and material culture studies, and he has a regional specialism in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. His recent work includes (co-edited with J.C.H. King) Extreme collecting (Berghahn, 2012).

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Recent publications

• Were, G, 2019, ‘How Materials Matter: Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific’. Berghahn Books
• Were, G, 2019, ‘Thirty years of Doi Moi in the museum: Changing representations of development in late-socialist Vietnam’. Asian Education and Development Studies.

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