November 1984

Coombes, Annie E. and Birkett, D. (1984) "A Most Peculiar Arrangement”: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. West Africa , pp. 2316-2317.

December 1985

Coombes, Annie E. (1985) "For God and For England”: contributions to an image of Africa in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Art History 8 (4), pp. 453-466. ISSN 0141-6790.

1 December 1988

Coombes, Annie E. (1988) Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities. Oxford Art Journal 11 (2), pp. 57-68. ISSN 0142-6540.

February 1989

Coombes, Annie E. and Nead, Lynda (1989) No more grand master narratives. Art Monthly (123), pp. 15-17. ISSN 0142-6702.

1992

Coombes, Annie E. (1992) Inventing the ‘postcolonial’: hybridity and constituency in contemporary curating. New Formations (18), pp. 39-52. ISSN 0950-2378.

1994

Coombes, Annie E. (1994) Blinded by science: Ethnography at the British Museum. In: Pointon, M. (ed.) Art apart : Art Institutions and Ideology Across England and North America. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 102-119. ISBN 9780719039188.

20 October 1994

Coombes, Annie E. (1994) Reinventing Africa: museums, material culture and popular imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. London, UK: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300059728.

1995

Coombes, Annie E. (1995) Making the nation: primitivism and modernity at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908. In: Debussman, R. and Reisz, J. (eds.) Kolonialausstellungen - Begegnungen mit Afrika? Frankfurt, Germany: IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, pp. 65-74. ISBN 9783889394019.

September 1996

Coombes, Annie E. (1996) Ethnography, popular culture and institutional power: narratives of Benin culture in the British Museum, 1897-1992. In: Wright, G. (ed.) The Formation of National Collections of Art and Archaeology. Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) 47. Washington, U.S.: National Gallery of Art, Washington, pp. 143-157. ISBN 9780300077186.

March 1997

Brah, Avtar and Coombes, Annie E. and Lewis, R. and Phoenix, A. (1997) Consuming Cultures, Special Issue of Feminist Review, No. 55 (1). Sage.

1 March 1997

Brah, A. and Coombes, Annie E. and Lewis, R. and Phoenix, A. (1997) Consuming cultures. Feminist Review 55 (1), pp. 1-3. ISSN 0141-7789.

1998

Coombes, Annie E. (1998) Inventing the “Postcolonial”: hybridity and constituency in contemporary curating. In: Presiozi, D. (ed.) The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Oxford history of art. Oxford University Press, pp. 486-497. ISBN 9780192842428.

1999

Coombes, Annie E. (1999) L'objet de la traduction : notes sur « l'art » et l'autonomie dans un contexte post-colonial. Cahiers d'Études africaines 39 (155-6), pp. 635-658. ISSN 0008-0055.

2000

Coombes, Annie E. (2000) La Traduction du Passé: les Monuments de l’Apartheid dans l’Afrique du Sud d’après l’Apartheid. In: Taffin, D. (ed.) Du Musée Colonial au Musée des Cultures du Monde. Paris, France: Maisonneuve et Larose, pp. 163-184. ISBN 9782706814570.

Coombes, Annie E. (2000) The art of memory. Third Text 14 (52), pp. 45-52. ISSN 0952-8822.

24 August 2000

Coombes, Annie E. and Brah, Avtar, eds. (2000) Hybridity and its discontents: politics, science, culture. London, UK and New York, U.S.: Routledge. ISBN 9780415194037.

2001

Coombes, Annie E. (2001) Skin deep / bodies of evidence. The work of Berni Searle. In: Hassan, S. and Oguibe, O. (eds.) Authentic, ex-centric : Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art. Forum for African Arts : Prince Claus Fund Library, pp. 178-199. ISBN 9789076162065.

Coombes, Annie E. (2001) The object of translation: notes on ‘Art’ and autonomy in a post-colonial context. In: Myers, F.R. (ed.) The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Sante Fe, U.S., Oxford, UK: SAR Press, James Currey, pp. 233-256. ISBN 0852559283.

2003

Coombes, Annie E. (2003) Berni Searle: Memories are made of this. Fresh. Cape Town, South Africa: South African National Gallery. ISBN 9781874817284.

Treacher, A. and Coombes, Annie E. and Alexander, C. and Bland, L. and Allred, P. (2003) Exile and asylum: women seeking refuge in ‘Fortress Europe’, special issue, Feminist Review no.73. Sage.

March 2003

Coombes, Annie E. (2003) Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett - An Installation. American Anthropologist 105 (1), pp. 161-163. ISSN 1548-1433.

November 2003

Coombes, Annie E. (2003) History after Apartheid: visual culture and public memory in a democratic South Africa. Durham, U.S.: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3072-1, 978-0-8223-3060-8.

2004

Coombes, Annie E. (2004) Monuments and memory. In: Brown, C. (ed.) Ishumi/10. Durban, South Africa: Durban Art Gallery, pp. 35-45. ISBN 9780620333825.

Coombes, Annie E. (2004) Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities. In: Preziosi, D. and Farago, C. (eds.) Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum. Ashgate. ISBN 9780367024345.

2006

Coombes, Annie E. (2006) Objav “postkoloniálneho” : hybridnost’ a jej stúpenci v súčasnom kurátorstve. In: Orišková, M. (ed.) Efekt Múzea: Predmety, Praktiky, Publikum. Bratislava, Slovakia: Afad Press, pp. 227-240. ISBN 9788089259083.

Coombes, Annie E., ed. (2006) Rethinking settler colonialism: history and memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719071683.

2010

Coombes, Annie E. (2010) The gender of memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa. In: Radstone, S. and Schwarz, B. (eds.) Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Fordham University Press, pp. 442-457. ISBN 9780823232604.

Coombes, Annie E. (2010) The phantom of history: longing, loss and agency in the work of Carrie Mae Weems. In: Dyangani Ose, E. (ed.) Carrie Mae Weems: Estudios sociales. Seville, Spain: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, pp. 71-81. ISBN 9788482669984.

2011

Hughes, L. and Coombes, Annie E. and Karega-Munene (2011) Introduction: Heritage, History and Memory: New Research from East and Southern Africa. [Editorial/Introduction]

Coombes, Annie E. (2011) Monumental histories: commemorating Mau Mau with the statue of Dedan Kimathi. African Studies 70 (2), pp. 202-223. ISSN 0002-0184.

May 2011

Coombes, Annie E. (2011) Witnessing history/embodying testimony: gender and memory in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (S1), S92-S112. ISSN 1359-0987.

2013

Coombes, Annie E. and Brundrit, J. (2013) The politics of practice: Jean Brundrit and Annie E. Coombes in conversation. In: Conradie, A. (ed.) Out of Site: Representations of Identity in the Work of Jean Brundrit. Cape Town, South Africa: SoSo Press, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9781920022044.

30 November 2013

Coombes, Annie E. and Hughes, L. and Munene, K. (2013) Managing heritage, making peace: history, identity and memory in contemporary Kenya. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780761527.

2014

Coombes, Annie E. (2014) Mining the archive, mapping the future: violence and memory in the work of Miriam Syowia Kyambi. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Miriam Syowia Kyambi. Contact Zone 13. Nairobi, Kenya: Goethe Institute Kenya, pp. 10-25. ISBN 9789966071040.

2015

Coombes, Annie E. and Phillips, R.B. (2015) Museum transformations. The International Handbooks of Museum Studies 4. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118829059.

Koureas, Gabriel (2015) Recirculating images of the 'terrorist' in postcolonial museums: the case of the national museum of struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus. In: Coombes, Annie E. and Phillips, R.B. (eds.) Museum Transformations. The International Handbooks of Museum Studies 4. Chichester, UK: Wiley, pp. 113-132. ISBN 9781405198509.

Coombes, Annie E. (2015) The gender of memory in Postapartheid South Africa: the women’s jail as heritage site. In: Coombes, Annie E. and Phillips, R.B. (eds.) Museum Transformations. The International Handbooks of Museum Studies 4. Chichester, UK: Wiley, pp. 207-226. ISBN 9781405198509.

2016

Coombes, Annie E. (2016) Entries for Edo culture from Benin City : "Edo Artist: Benin City, 'Head of an Oba'"; "Edo Artist: Benin City, 'Head of a Queen Mother, Benin City'"; "Jonathan Adagogo Green, 'King of Benin, Oba Ovonramwen'"; "Tony Phillips, 'Face to Face' from the series 'History of the Benin Bronzes' " in the catalogue for The Artist and Empire (Tate Britain). In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Artist and Empire. London, UK and New York, U.S.: Tate publishing, 78 -81. ISBN 9781849763592.

Coombes, Annie E. (2016) Photography against the grain: rethinking the colonial archive in Kenyan museums. World Art Journal 6 (1), pp. 1-23. ISSN 2150-0894.

2019

Coombes, Annie E. (2019) Positive living: visual activism and art in HIV/AIDS rights campaigns. Journal of Southern African Studies 45 (1), pp. 143-174. ISSN 0305-7070.

February 2020

Coombes, Annie E. and Phillips, R.B., eds. (2020) Museum transformations: decolonization and democratization. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781119642046.