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Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney and Piccini, Angela eds. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harrison, Rodney (2013). Assembling and governing cultures ‘at risk’: centers of collection and calculation, from ethnographic museums to UNESCO World Heritage Lists. In: Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, pp. 89–115.

Harrison, Rodney (2013). Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget: late modern heritage practices, sustainability and the ‘crisis’ of accumulation. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 19(6) pp. 579–595.

Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. (2013). Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. Advanced Seminar. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.

Harrison, Rodney (2013). Reassembling ethnographic museum collections. In: Harrison, Rodney; Byrne, Sarah and Clarke, Anne eds. Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency. Santa Fe: SAR Press, pp. 3–36.

Harrison, Rodney (2012). Heritage: Critical Approaches. Abingdon: Routledge.

Harrison, Rodney (2011). ‘Counter-mapping’ heritage, communities and places in Australia and the UK. In: Schofield, John and Szymanski, Rosy eds. Local Heritage, Global Context: Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place. Heritage, Culture and Identity. Ashgate, pp. 79–98.

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Harrison, Rodney (2011). Surface assemblages. Towards an archaeology in and of the present. Archaeological Dialogues, 18(02) pp. 141–161.

Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin eds. (2011). Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. One World Archaeology. New York: Springer.

Harrison, Rodney (2011). Consuming colonialism: curio-seller's catalogues, souvenir objects and indigenous agency in Oceania. In: Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin eds. Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. One World Archaeology. New York: Springer, pp. 55–82.

Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin (2011). Networks, agents and objects: frameworks for unpacking museum collections. In: Byrne, Sarah; Clarke, Anne; Harrison, Rodney and Torrence, Robin eds. Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. One World Archaeology. New York: Springer, pp. 3–26.

Harrison, Rodney (2010). Stone tools. In: Hicks, Dan and Beaudry, Mary C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 521–542.

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Harrison, Rodney (2010). Exorcising the ‘plague of fantasies’: mass media and archaeology’s role in the present; or, why we need an archaeology of ‘now’. World Archaeology, 42(3) pp. 328–340.

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Ferguson, Rebecca; Harrison, Rodney and Weinbren, Daniel (2010). Heritage and the recent and contemporary past. In: Benton, Tim ed. Understanding Heritage and Memory. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 277–315.

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Harrison, Rodney (2010). 'Where the cattle went, they went': towards a phenomenological archaeology of mustering in the Kunderang Gorges, northeastern New South Wales. In: Lewis, Helen and Semple, Sarah eds. Perspectives in Landscape Archaeology. BAR International Series (2103). Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 45–54.

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Harrison, Rodney and Schofield, John (2010). After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.

Harrison, Rodney (2009). The archaeology of the Port Hedland coastal plain and implications for understanding the prehistory of shell mounds and middens in Northwestern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 44(S1) pp. 81–98.

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Clune, Genevieve and Harrison, Rodney (2009). Coastal shell middens of the Abydos coastal plain, Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 44(S1) pp. 70–80.

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Harrison, Rodney and Schofield, John (2009). Archaeo-ethnography, auto-archaeology: Introducing archaeologies of the contemporary past. Archaeologies, 5(2) pp. 185–209.

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Harrison, Rodney (2009). Towards an archaeology of the welfare state in Britain, 1945–2009. Archaeologies, 5(2) pp. 238–262.

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Harrison, Rodney (2009). Excavating Second Life: Cyber-archaeologies, heritage and virtual communities. Journal of Material Culture, 14(1) pp. 75–106.

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Harrison, Rodney (2009). 'Three, Two, One...?' The Material Legacy of Global Millennium Celebrations. In: Schofield, John ed. Defining Moments: Dramatic Archaeologies of the Twentieth-Century. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 147–156.

Harrison, Rodney and Schofield, John (2009). Special Issue: Archae-ethnography, Auto-archaeology: Introducing Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. Springer.

Gibbs, Martin and Harrison, Rodney (2008). Dynamics of Dispersion revisited? Archaeological context and the study of Aboriginal knapped glass artefacts in Australia. Australian Archaeology, 67 pp. 61–68.

Fairclough, Graham; Harrison, Rodney; Jameson, John H. and Schofield, John eds. (2008). The Heritage Reader. New York: Routledge.

Harrison, Rodney; Fairclough, Graham; Jameson, John H. and Schofield, John (2008). Heritage, memory and modernity: an introduction. In: Fairclough, Graham; Harrison, Rodney; Jameson, John H. and Schofield, John eds. The Heritage Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 1–12.

Harrison, Rodney (2008). The Politics of the Past: Conflict in the use of heritage in the modern world. In: Fairclough, Graham; Harrison, Rodney; Jameson, John H. and Schofield, John eds. The Heritage Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 177–190.

Harrison, Rodney (2008). Historical Archaeology in the Land of the Black Stump. In: Mayne, Alan ed. Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, pp. 85–112.

Harrison, Rodney; Gibbs, Martin; Burke, Shane; Przywolnik, Kathryn and Sellers, Annette (2008). Engagements in the field: Teaching field archaeology in the context of a community-driven research project. Archaeological Heritage, 1(1) pp. 29–36.

Harrison, Rodney (2007). Kimberley points and the politics of enchantment - a reply to Akerman. Current Anthropology, 48(1) pp. 133–134.

Harrison, Rodney (2007). Materiality, 'ambiguity' and the unfamiliar in the archaeology of inter-societal confrontations: A case study from northwest Australia. In: Cornell, Per and Fahlander, Fredrik eds. Encounters|Materialities|Confrontations: Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 42–57.

Harrison, Rodney (2006). Aboriginal people and pastoralism. In: Atkinson, Alan; Ryan, J.S.; Davidson, Iain and Piper, Andrew eds. High Lean Country: Land, people and memory in New England. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin, pp. 111–121.

Harrison, Rodney (2006). An Artefact of Colonial Desire? Kimberley Points and the Technologies of Enchantment. Current Anthropology, 47(1) pp. 63–88.

Harrison, Rodney (2006). 'It will always be set in your heart': archaeology and community values at the former Dennawan Reserve, northwestern NSW, Australia. In: Agnew, Neville and Birdgeland, Janet eds. Of the past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation. Los Angeles, US: The Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 94–101.

Harrison, Rodney (2005). Dreamtime, Old Time, This Time: Archaeology, memory and the present-past in a Northern Australian Aboriginal community. In: Lydon, Jane and Ireland, Tracy eds. Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 243–264.

Harrison, Rodney (2005). Contact archaeology and native title. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2005(1) pp. 16–29.

Harrison, Rodney (2004). Shared landscapes: archaeologies of attachment and the pastoral industry in New South Wales. Studies in the Cultural Construction of Open Space. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.

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Harrison, Rodney and Williamson, Christine eds. (2004). After Captain Cook: The archaeology of the recent Indigenous Past in Australia. Indigenous Archaeologies, 2. USA: AltaMira Press; co-published with University of Sydney Archaeological Laboratory.

Harrison, Rodney (2004). Contact archaeology and the landscapes of pastoralism in the north-west of Australia. In: Murray, Tim ed. The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies. New Directions in Archaeology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109–143.

williamson, Christine and Harrison, Rodney (2004). Too many Captain Cooks? An archaeology of Aboriginal Australia after 1788. In: Harrison, Rodney and Williamson, Christine eds. After Captain Cook: The archaeology of the recent indigenous past in Australia. Indigenous Archaeologies (2). Sydney: AltaMira Press, pp. 1–13.

Harrison, Rodney (2004). Shared histories and the archaeology of the pastoral industry in Australia. In: Harrison, Rodney and Williamson, Christine eds. After Captain Cook: The archaeology of the recent indigenous past in Australia. Indigenous Archaeologies (2). Sydney: AltaMira Press, pp. 37–58.

Harrison, Rodney (2003). 'The magical virtue of these sharp things': Colonialism, Mimesis and Knapped Bottle Glass Artefacts in Australia. Journal of Material Culture, 8(3) pp. 311–336.

Harrison, Rodney (2003). The archaeology of ‘lost places’: ruin, memory and the heritage of the Aboriginal diaspora in Australia. Historic Environment, 17(1) pp. 18–23.

Harrison, Rodney (2002). Archaeology and the colonial encounter: Kimberley spearpoints, cultural identity and masculinity in the north of Australia. Journal of Social Archaeology, 2(3) pp. 352–377.

Greer, Shelley; Harrison, Rodney and McIntyre-Tamwoy, Susan (2002). Community-based archaeology in Australia. World Archaeology, 34(2) pp. 265–287.

Harrison, Rodney (2002). Australia’s Iron Age: Aboriginal post-contact metal artefacts from Old Lamboo station, southeast Kimberley, WA. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 20 pp. 67–76.

Harrison, Rodney and Frink, Douglas S. (2000). The OCR carbon dating procedure in Australia: New dates from Wilinyjibari Rockshelter, southeast Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology, 51 pp. 6–15.

Harrison, Rodney (2000). 'Nowadays with glass': Regional variation in Aboriginal bottle glass artefacts from Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 35(1) pp. 34–37.

Harrison, Rodney (2000). Challenging the authenticity of antiquity: Contact archaeology and Native Title in Australia. In: Lilley, Ian ed. Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in a Postcolonial World. Sydney: Oceania Publications, pp. 35–53.