Selected publications of Professor Lambros Malafouris

Authored and edited books:

  • Koukouti, M. D., Malafouris, L., (2020), An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing, London: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Malafouris, L., (2013), How Things Shape the Mind. A Theory of Material Engagement, Cambridge, London: MIT Press
  • Malafouris, L., Renfrew, C., eds. (2010), The cognitive life of things: recasting the boundaries of the mind, Cambridge: McDonald Institute.
  • Malafouris, L., Renfrew, C., eds. (2009), The Sapient Mind: Archaeology meets neuroscience, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Malafouris, L., Knappett, C., eds. (2008), Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, New York: Springer.

    Authored and edited books.

Journal articles and chapters of books:

  • Barona, A. M., Malafouris, L. (2021), On making futures with human touch, Adaptive Behavior, 1-3: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1059712321989428.
  • Malafouris, L. (2021), Mark making and human becoming, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory volume, 28: 95–119.
  • Malafouris, L. (2020), How does thinking relate to tool making?, Adaptive Behavior, 1–15: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1059712320950539.
  • Koukouti, M. D., Malafouris, L. (2020), Material Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective. In The Cambridge Handbook of Imagination, ed. Abraham, A. (2020), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 30-46.
  • Koukouti, K. S., Malafouris, L. (2020), Thinging beauty anthropological reflections on the making of beauty and the beauty of making, Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi, 9 (18): 211-238.
  • Poulsgaard K. S., Malafouris, L. (2020), Understanding the hermeneutics of digital materiality in contemporary architectural modelling: a material engagement perspective, AI & SOCIETY, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01044-5
  • Malafouris, L. (2020), Beyond Biology and Culture: Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Universality and Diversity of the Human Mind. In Balzan Papers (2020). Vol. 3, ed. Veca, S., Decleva, E., Quadrio Curzio, A. (2020), Firenze: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 383-394.
  • Malafouris, L. (2020), Thinking as “Thinging”: Psychology With Things, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29 (1): 3–8.
  • Malafouris, L., Gosden, C. (2020), Mind, Time, and Material Engagement. In The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture, eds. Gaskell, I., Carter, S. A. (2020), Oxford: Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341764.013.27.
  • Wynn, T., Overmann, K. A., Malafouris, L. (2020), 4E cognition in the Lower Palaeolithic, Adaptive Behavior, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320967184.
  • Malafouris, L. (2019), Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health, BJPsych Bulletin, 43: 195–200, doi:10.1192/bjb.2019.7.
  • Malafouris, L. (2019), Mind and material engagement, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 18: 1-17.
  • Ihde, D., Malafouris, L. (2019), Homo faber Revisited: Postphenomenology and Material Engagement Theory, Philosophy and Technology, 32: 195–214.
  • Malafouris, L., Kokouti, M. D., (2018), How the body remembers its skills memory and material engagement, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25 (7, 8): 158-180.
  • Walls, M., Malafouris, L. (2017), Creativity as a developmental ecology. In The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture, ed. Glăveanu, V. (2017), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 623-638.
  • Malafouris, L. (2017), Play and Ritual: Some Thoughts from a Material-Culture Perspective. In Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies, ed. Renfrew, C., Boyd, M. J., Morley, I. (2017), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 311-315.
  • Malafouris, L. (2015), How did the Mycenaean remember?. In Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: Death shall have no dominion, eds. Renfrew, C., Boyd, M. J., Morley, I. (2015), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 303-314.
  • Malafouris, L. (2015), Metaplasticity and the Primacy of Material Engagement, The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 8 (4): 351-371.
  • Malafouris, L. (2014), Third hand prosthesis (comment for Bruner & Lozano), Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 92: 281-283.
  • Bruner, E., Lozano, M., Malafouris, L., Langbroek, M., Wynn, T., Coolidge, F.L., Martin-Loeches, M. (2014), Extended mind and visuo-spatial integration: three hands for the Neandertal lineage, Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 92: 273-280.
  • Malafouris, L., Gosden, C., Overmann, K. A. (2014), Creativity, cognition and material culture: An introduction, Pragmatics & Cognition, 22 (1): 1-4.
  • Malafouris, L., Gosden, C., Karenleigh A. Overmann (2014), Creativity, cognition and material culture: An introduction, Pragmatics & Cognition, 22 (1): 1-4.
  • Malafouris, L. (2014), Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge, Current Anthropology, 55 (2): 241-242.
  • Malafouris, L. (2013), Learning to See: Enactive Discovery and the Prehistory of Pictorial Skill. In Origins of pictures: anthropological discourses in image science, eds. Sachs-Hombach, K., Schirra, J. (2013), Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 73-89.
  • Malafouris, L. (2013), Mindful Art, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36 (2), 151-152.
  • Malafouris, L. (2013), Mind into matter: Where we end and the world begins, New Scientist, 219: 28, 29.
  • Malafouris, L. (2013), On thinking and form-making. In Naturaliser l'architecture, eds. Brayer, M.A., Migayrou, F., Orléans: Éditions HYX, 254-256.
  • Malafouris, L. (2012), Prosthetic gestures: How the tool shapes the mind, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (4): 230-231.
  • Malafouris, L. (2012), Linear B as Distributed Cognition: Excavating a Mind not Limited by the Skin. In Excavating the mind: cross-sections through culture, cognition and materiality, eds. Johannsen, N., Jessen, M.D., Juel Jensen, H. (2012), Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 69-85.
  • Malafouris, L. (2012), More than a brain: human mindscapes, Brain, 135 (12): 3839-3844.
  • Malafouris, L. (2011), The aesthetics of material engagement. In Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin, ed. Manzotti, R. (2011), Exeter: Imprint Academic, 123-141.
  • Malafouris, L. (2010), The brain–artefact interface (BAI): a challenge for archaeology and cultural neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5 (2-3): 264-273.
  • Malafouris, L. (2010), Grasping the concept of number: How did the sapient mind move beyond approximation?. In The archaeology of measurement: comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies, eds. Morley, I., Renfrew, C., (2010), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 35-42.
  • Malafouris, L. (2010), Knapping Intentions and the Marks of the Mental. In The cognitive life of things: recasting the boundaries of the mind, eds. Malafouris, L., Renfrew, C. (2010), Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 13-22.
  • Malafouris, L., Renfrew, C. (2010), The Cognitive Life of Things: Archaeology, Material Engagement and the Extended Mind. In The cognitive life of things: recasting the boundaries of the mind, eds. Malafouris, L., Renfrew, C. (2010), Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 1-12.
  • Malafouris, L. (2010), Metaplasticity and the human becoming: principles of neuroarchaeology, Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 88: 49-72.
  • Malafouris, L. (2010), Grasping the concept of number: How did the sapient mind move beyond approximation?. In The Archaeology of Measurement Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, eds. Morley, I., Renfrew, C. (2010), Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 35-42.
  • Malafouris, L. (2009), “Neuroarcheology”: exploring the links between neural and cultural plasticity. In Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function, Volume 178, ed. Chiao, J. (2009), London: Elsevier, 253-262.
  • Malafouris, L. (2008), At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency. In Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, eds. Malafouris, L., Knappett, C. (2008), New York: Springer, 19-36.
  • Malafouris, L. (2008), Between brains, bodies and things: tectonoetic awareness and the extended self, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences, 363: 1993-2002.
  • Malafouris, L. (2007), Before and beyond representation: towards an enactive conception of the Palaeolithic image. In Image and imagination: a global prehistory of figurative representation, eds. Renfrew C., Morley, I. (2007), Cambridge: McDonald Institute.
  • Malafouris, L. (2004), The cognitive basis of material engagement: where brain, body and culture conflate. In Rethinking materiality: the engagement of mind with the material world, eds. DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C., Renfrew, C. (2004), Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 53-62.