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Ingie Hovland | Blog
The latest issue of Anthropology Matters is now online - my last issue as editor!br /br /LATEST ISSUE OFbr /ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS:br /br /strongFIELDWORK SUPPORT/strongbr /Autumn 2009, Vol 11(2)br /ISSN 1758-6453br /a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com"http://www.anthropologymatters.com/abr /br /The latest issue of the Anthropology Matters ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
I have not been posting lately. With house moving and a baby on the way, the blog seems to hold less priority. I think this will be my last post (at least for a good while!) But I have enjoyed ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
Spring 2009, Vol 11 (1)br /ISSN 1758-6453br /a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2009-1/index.html"http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2009-1/index.html/abr /br /"FIELDWORK IDENTITIES"br /br /EDITORIAL: FIELDWORK IDENTITIES - INTRODUCTION, by Ingie Hovland.br /br /PRIEST, DEVELOPMENT WORKER, OR VOLUNTEER? ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND ASCRIBED IDENTITIES IN RURAL MOZAMBIQUE, by Michael Madison Walker (Michigan ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ewra3Sc59c4/ShQ83B-VBFI/AAAAAAAAAGo/taUBvymvbRU/s1600-h/Adam+and+Eve,+c.+1550,+Museo+del+Prado,+Madrid.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337958374461211730" style="WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ewra3Sc59c4/ShQ83B-VBFI/AAAAAAAAAGo/taUBvymvbRU/s320/Adam+and+Eve,+c.+1550,+Museo+del+Prado,+Madrid.jpg" border="0" //abr /emAdam and Eve, c. 1550, Museo del Prado, Madrid/embr /divbr //divdiv/divdivIn the past few decades many interesting feminist/gender studies of the story of Adam and Eve have ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
Since becoming pregnant I have started paying more attention to a number of anthropologists who do research on women's bodies, birth, and parents' interaction with their babies.br /br /The first anthropologist I read on this topic was Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
I have had time to get back into a href="http://ingiehovland.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-project.html"my writing project/a again over the past few weeks. As always, however, when I spend weeks on end filtering through notes, drawing out what I think might be relevant, filing it ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
One of my first posts on here, about a year ago, was about a href="http://ingiehovland.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html"writing and eating God/a. I was reminded of that post last Sunday in the John study group at our church. We talked about a few verses ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/258H/9780312424091.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 172px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 258px" alt="" src="http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/258H/9780312424091.jpg" border="0" //abr /div/divbr /divA friend told me that a href="http://www.amazon.com/Housekeeping-Novel-Marilynne-Robinson/dp/0312424094"emHousekeeping /emby Marilynne Robinson/a was "strange but beautiful", and she was right. I also found it much more disturbing than I ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
I have been thinking about how to describe women's religious rituals lately. Specifically I want to describe the all-female rituals, i.e. organized meetings, held by Christian women in Oslo, Norway, in the early twentieth century. They would come together to ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
A return to idle pleasures after a href="http://ingiehovland.blogspot.com/2008/06/remembering-idle-pleasures.html"last summer/a...br /br /"Taking a Bathbr /In a world of 'power showers' and invigorating pick-me-up gel products for the modern striver, it's well to remember the simple pleasures of a long, relaxing bath, ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
Holly McCarthy has written a great post over on onlineuniversities.com where she has collected a href="http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2008/12/top-100-anthropology-blogs/"100 anthropology blogs/a. Browsing through the list there were especially two that caught my attention - first, a href="http://www.spaceandculture.org/"Space amp; Culture/a, all about spaces, and ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
My blog has been added to a href="http://anthropology.alltop.com/"Alltop's "All the Top Anthropology News"/a site... so I checked it out. It looks pretty good. It's supposed to be an "online magazine rack" and that is exactly the feeling you get, browsing ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=37347amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPICamp;URL_SECTION=201.html"img style="WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 260px" alt="" src="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/files/37347/12126701431levi-strauss_260.jpg/levi-strauss_260.jpg" border="0" //abr /div/divbr /divSince I missed posting something on a href="http://humaniteinenglish.com/article1083.html"Claude Lévi-Strauss's 100th birthday/a last year, I thought I would start the new year by posting my favourite Lévi-Strauss quote. ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
...is now online a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2008-2/index.html"here/a! Below is the official announcement...br /br /* * * * * * * * * * * *br /a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2008-2/index.html"LATEST ISSUE OFbr /ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS/abr /br /ISSN 1758-6453br /br /The latest issue of the a href="http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2008-2/index.html"Anthropology ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Balloons-aj.svg"img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 110px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Balloons-aj.svg/110px-Balloons-aj.svg.png" border="0" //aA couple of weeks ago a href="http://savageminds.org/"Savage Minds/a held an a href="http://savageminds.org/2008/11/14/teh-savage-minds-awards-ceremony/"informal competition/a for most excellent open access anthropology journal, and most ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Our-Wombs-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520242688/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1227277850amp;sr=8-1"img style="WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://www.ucpress.edu/image/covers/160/10258.160.jpg" border="0" //abr /div/divbr /divI recently bought Rebecca Lester's monograph ema href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Our-Wombs-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520242688/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1227277850amp;sr=8-1"Jesus in our wombs: Embodying modernity in a Mexican convent/a/em. This is one of the few monographs I've been able ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
A while ago I wrote a blog post about the (self-)disiplining of the female body and the issue of a href="http://ingiehovland.blogspot.com/2008/07/taking-up-room-and-filling-space.html"taking up room, filling space/a. I was reminded of some of the same self-disciplining when I read one of Susan ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
"Those familiar with feminist critiques of the 'male gaze' and the phallocracy that gaze institutes ... may, like myself, have cherished the idea that in more ear-, less eye-minded societies, like that of the Suya [of central Brazil], women's senses ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
This is a rather random post, but today I am making tiramisu to bring to our reading group... I've found a great recipe (in a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Basics-Dummies/dp/0764572067/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1223640568amp;sr=8-1"Cooking Basics for Dummies/a! by Bryan Miller and Marie Rama) and I love tiramisu. For ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
I've just read and enjoyed John Barker's recent book review essay in the latest issue of emAmerican Anthropologist/em (vol 110, no 3), "Toward an anthropology of Christianity". He reviews three books: Fenella Cannell's edited volume emThe Anthropology of Christianity, /emMatthew ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php"img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd050708s.gif" border="0" //abr /br /div/divdivI love a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php"PhD comics/a./divdiv/divdiv/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4379311222889040055-4009317661735000410?l=ingiehovland.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
Well, this week I sent off my book manuscript (ema href="http://ingiehovland.blogspot.com/2008/06/inhabiting-christian-spaces.html"Inhabiting Christian Spaces/a/em) to an editor. I know the whole process will probably take ages, and I might well have to send it to several publishers and revise it again ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://www.materialworldblog.com/"Material World/a recently posted a note on the project a href="http://www.gendersite.org/"Gender and the Built Environment/a. I looked at their case studies and especially enjoyed these two:br /strong/strongbr /strong"/stronga href="http://www.gendersite.org/pages/planning_the_non-sexist_city_the_eurofem_initiative_and_beyond.html"strongPlanning the non-sexist city/strong/astrong"/strongbr /While I was aware of how shapes ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
strong/strongbr /strongJournal articles /strongbr /br /"Regulating emotions and aiming for a Ph.D.: Excerpts from Anthropology Matters," emKroeber Anthropological Society Papers/em, forthcoming (special issue on "graduate socialization").br /br /"a href="http://rhr.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/2007/99/140?rss=1"Umpumulo, place of rest: A nineteenth-century Christian mission station among the Zulus/a," ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
Yesterday I came across a href="http://www.judyhan.com/otherwise/?page_id=279"Ju Hui Judy Han's/a 24-page comics - she has drawn up her PhD research in comics format! I actually read all of it, so much easier to read than hundreds of pages of dissertation... and ...
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Ingie Hovland | Blog
a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Limits-Meaning-Studies-Anthropology-Christianity/dp/184545507X"img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/covers/EngelkeLimits.jpg" border="0" //apI've just finished reading all (yes, all - the collection is that good!) the chapters of emThe limits of meaning: Case studies in the ...