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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Editorial/Introduction

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

Book Section

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. (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.

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.

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.

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.

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. (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.

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.

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.

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.

Book

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Other

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.

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

Coombes, Annie E. Research portfolio: Positive living. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)