Mack, John (2012) Making and seeing: Matisse and the understanding of Kuba pattern. Journal of Art Historiography (7). ISSN 2042-4752
Mack, John (2012) Drawing degree zero: The Indigenous encounter with pencil and paper. World Art, 2 (1). pp. 70-105. ISSN 2150-0908
Mack, John (2011) Fetish? Magic Figures from Central Africa. Journal of Art Historiography, 5. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2042-4752
Mack, John (2011) Healing words: Becoming a spirit-host in Madagascar. Anthropology and Medicine, 18 (2). pp. 231-243. ISSN 1469-2910
Mack, John (2007) The Land Viewed from the Sea. Azania, 62. pp. 1-14.
Mack, John (2002) "Exhibiting Cultures" Revisited: Translation and Representation. FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society, 43. pp. 195-209.
Mack, John (2020) Baskets of Wisdom:: An Equatorial African complex. In: Basketry and Beyond. Sainsbury Research Unit, pp. 128-141. ISBN 978-1-9161-3394-8
Mack, John (2020) Narratives of the 'Fetish'. In: Post-Specimen Encounters between Art, Science and Curating. Intellect Books, pp. 26-50. ISBN 978-1-7893-8311-9
Mack, John (2020) The Primordial Basket. In: The Material Culture of Basketry. Bloomsbury, pp. 127-133. ISBN 978-1-3500-9403-1
Mack, John (2020) The Agency of Objects:A contrasting choreography of flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa. In: Dividing the Spoils. Manchester University Press, pp. 39-59. ISBN 978-1-5261-3920-7
Mack, John (2020) The ‘Omdurman’ Drum. In: Recovering Cultures. Sidestone Press. (In Press)
Mack, John (2020) Betsimisaraka. In: Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Bloomsbury. (In Press)
Mack, John (2020) Eclecticism and inspiration in the ceramics of Magdalene Odundo and in the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury collection. In: Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things. The Hepworth Wakefield.
Mack, John (2009) The Object of Memory. In: Preserving the cultural heritage of Africa. Crisis or Renaissance? James Curry Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 9781868885398
Mack, John and Fundacion la caxia d estalvis & pensions of Barcelona (2004) El Arte de Benin. In: Africa. La Figura Imaginada. Fundacio la Caxia, Barcelona, pp. 26-36. ISBN 8476648510
Mack, John (2003) "Ethnography" in the Enlightenment. In: Enlightening the British: Knowledge, discovery & the museum in the Eighteenth Century. British Museum Press, pp. 114-118. ISBN 071415010X
Mack, John (2003) Medicine and Anthropology in Wellcome's Collection. In: Medicine Man, the Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome. British Museum Press, pp. 213-233. ISBN 0714127949
Mack, John (2020) Depicting the ‘inner head’: an appreciation of the art of Osi Audu. Osi Audu: Wetin de Bis? . International Contemporary Art, Frankfurt.
Mack, John (2019) The Artfulness of Death in Africa. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789141238
Mack, John (2011) The Sea: A Cultural History. Reaktion Books. ISBN 1861898098
Mack, John (2008) Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or Renaissance? James Currey Publications. ISBN 0852559828
Mack, John (2007) The Art of Small Things. British Museum Press. ISBN 9780714150468
Mack, John (2003) Museum of the Mind, Art and Memory in World Cultures. British Museum Press. ISBN 0714126373
Mack, John (2001) Africa: Arts and Cultures. British Museum Press. ISBN 0714125482