Professor Graeme Were

Professor Graeme Were
BA Hons(Keele), MSc(Lond.), PhD(Lond.)

Chair in Anthropology

43 Woodland Road,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1UU
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 331 1191
graeme.were@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

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).

Recent publications

Were, G, 2017, ‘Representing Doi Moi: history, memory and shifting national narratives in late-socialist Vietnam’. International Journal of Heritage Studies., pp. 1-15
Were, G, 2016, ‘Reviving Kapiak: exploring the material identity of barkcloth in a Melanesian society’. in: The Handbook of Textile Culture., pp. 417-428

School of Arts

Professor Graeme Were