Bøker som må kjøpes/lånes:
@ Stuart Hall (ed.) : Representation : cultural representations and signifying practices , 1997 . London:Sage.
@ Bouquet, Mary: Sans og Samling…hos Universitetets Etnografiske Museum (Bringing It All Back Home…to the Oslo University Ethnographic Museum), 1996. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. (Boka vil bli tilgjengelig i undervisningen).
Kompendie:
Gell, Alfred: "Vogel’s Net Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps" i Journal of Material Culture, vol. 1, 1996. s. 15-38.
DeSilvey, C. : "Observed Decay: Telling Stories with Mutable Things" i Journal of Material Culture, vol. 11, nr 3., 2006. p. 318-338.
Ginsburg, R.: "'Don't Tell, Dear': The Material Culture of Tampons and Napkins" i Journal of Material Culture, vol. 1, nr. 3, 1996. p. 365-375.
Hauser, K. : "A Garment in the Dock; or, How the FBI Illuminated the Prehistory of A Pair of Denim Jeans (Winner of the Journal of Material Culture Alfred Gell essay competition 2004)" i Journal of Material Culture, vol 9, nr. 3, 2004. p. 293-313.
Hoskins, Janet: "Agency, Biography and Objects" i Tilley, C (ed.): Handbook of Material Culture, 2006. London, Sage. s. 74- 84.
Ingold, Tim: "The art of translation in a continuous world" i Pálsson, G: Beyond boundarys: understanding, translation and anthropological discourse, 1993. Oxford, Berg .
Lofgren, O. : "Scenes From a Troubled Marriage: Swedish Ethnology and Material Culture Studies" i Journal of Material Culture, vol 2 nr. 1., 1997. p. 95-113.
Veber, H. : "External Inducement and Non-Westernization in the Uses of the" i Journal of Material Culture, vol. 1, nr. 2, 1996. p. 155-182.
Miller, D. : "The Fame of Trinis: Websites as Traps" i Journal of Material Culture, vol 5, nr. 2, 2000. p. 5-24.
Bennett, Tony: "The Exhibitionary Complex" i Boswell and Evans (eds): Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, heritages and museums, 1999 (1988). s. 332-361.
Jacknis, Ira: "Franz Boas and Exhibits: On the Limitations of the Museum Method of Anthropology" i Stocking, Jr., George. W: Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture, 1985. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. s. 75-112.
Thomas, N. : "The Case of the Misplaced Ponchoes: Speculations Concerning the History of Cloth in Polynesia" i Journal of Material Culture, vol. 4, nr. 1, 1999. p. 5-20.
Thomas, Julian: "Phenomenology and Material Culture" i Handbook of Material Culture: Tilley, C, 2006. London, Sage. s. 43-59.
Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal: "The Aesthetics of Otherness in Museums of Cultural History" i Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning, vol. 3, nr. 4, 2004. s. 5-21.
Røkkum, Arne: "Nært, vilt og skjønt: Typer og karakterer i etnografiske utstillinger og forestillinger" i Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2005. nummer 2-3, s. 119-131.
Valentine, G. and B. Longstaff : "Doing Porridge: Food and Social Relations in a Male Prison" i Journal of Material Culture, vol 3, nr 2, 1998. p. 131-152.
Walters, I. : "Vietnam Zippos" i Journal of Material Culture, vol 2, nr. 1, 1997. p. 61-75.