Material Culture Review - Submissions & Guidelines

Correspondence:

Correspondence concerning contributions, author guidelines and editorial matters should be addressed to the Managing Editor at:

Material Culture Review
Cape Breton University
P.O. Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 6L2

Call for Submissions:

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Material Culture Review invites submission of new research from the field of material culture including, cultural history, public history, art history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, architecture and intangible cultural heritage. The editors encourage submissions from graduate students and scholars at any phase of their professional career, professionals and historians from the art and museum world and from independent scholars with an interest in material culture.

Additionally, the editors are currently interested in developing theme issues around the following topics:

Labour and Material Culture
Religious Material Culture
Needle Work: Knitting, Embroidery and Crocheting
Material Culture of Agriculture
First Nations Material Culture
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Inventorying Culture
Cultural Tourism
The Virtual Museum
Vernacular Architecture

We would welcome expressions of interest in guest editing an issue relating to any of the aforementioned themes.

Editorial Focus:

Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle (MCR) is Canada’s only scholarly journal dedicated to the study of material culture. It documents cultural artifacts, describing their historical context and role in society. MCR is published twice annually by Cape Breton University Press in Sydney, Nova Scotia in partnership with the Canada Research Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage. Material Culture Review is pleased to receive unsolicited as well as commissioned works.

Works submitted will be categorized as:

article (roughly speaking, 20-30 double-spaced pages, including endnotes)
research report (10-20 pages, including endnotes)
exhibit reviews (10-15 pages, including endnotes)
a research notes (5-10 pages)
book reviews (notes and comments less than 5 pages)

Author Guidelines:

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Images:

Illustrations are considered an integral part of the journal. The number of illustrations will vary according to category. Most articles, research reports and exhibition reviews contain between 5 and 10 photographs. The editor should be consulted if an article or research report is expected to contain more than 10 photographs or 5 graphs and tables. Illustrations are generally not included in book reviews.

Images are to be submitted in accordance with the procedure outlined in our Image Specification Guide.

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