Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle(MCR/RCM) is currently seeking original scholarly exhibition reviews for publication on a rolling basis.

Visit our new YouTube channel (Material Culture Review) to see a five minute video abstract of Kramer's article on the rhetoric of outsider art. Look for more video abstracts for upcoming articles.

As Bill Brown and Arjun Appadurai have observed, the biographical lives of things inform us about not only a thing’s existence, from its creation until its demise, as well as how it has been used, valued, and commoditized. They also inform us about human interaction with things in ways that can allow us to understand the experiences of marginalized and unexpected interlocutors of a thing’s existence.

Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle (MCR) is Canada’s only scholarly journal dedicated to the study of material culture. Published twice annually, the journal documents cultural artifacts, describing their historical contexts and roles in society.

Material Culture Review invites submissions of new research on material culture and its related topics from the fields of cultural history, public history, art history, cultural geography, folklore and/or ethnology, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, and museum, conservation and heritage studies. The editors encourage submissions from scholars at any phase of their career, curators and professionals from the museum and heritage world, and from independent scholars with an interest in material culture. Papers may be submitted in English or French languages.