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Local Foods – New issue of Open Access journal “Anthropology of Food”

Published on June 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, food and drink, journal articles / papers

Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal “Anthropology of Food”, edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO – Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about “coalho” cheese in the northeast of Brazil, José Muchnik, Estelle Bienabe and Claire Cerdant write: “This pressed curd cheese made with non pasteurized milk, typical of this region, “is not just a cheese” for the local consumers. It represents their culture, their way of life and their way eating.

Rachel Eden Black conducted ethnographic fieldwork at Porta Palazzo in Turin, which has one of the largest and oldest farmers’ markets in Italy. Farmers’ markets not only support the local production of food, but also help in the sharing of local knowledge of culinary traditions.

“France has Champagne, Norway has tjukkmjølk”, Virginie Amilien, Hanne Torjusen and Gunnar Vittersø write in their article From local food to terroir product? – Some views about Tjukkmjølk, the traditional thick sour milk from Røros, Norway.

>> overview over all articles in Anthropology of Food “Local Foods”

Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal "Anthropology of Food", edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO - Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about "coalho" cheese in the…

Anthropology Matters – New issue out on anthropology of science and technology

Published on May 30, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, technology

New methods in the anthropology of science and technology is the topic of the new issue of the anthropology online journal “Anthropology Matters” that was published these days. The papers developed out of a panel at the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Decennial Conference at the University of Manchester in July 2003. I the introduction we read:

“On the basis of the papers published here, we suggest that not only does ethnographic research prove extremely adaptable to new environments, contexts and conditions, but it also serves to make important contributions to current debates and discussion, particular in the field of science and technology.”

We find articles on dynamics how to study and theorize environmental protest movements in West Bengal (by Amites Mukhopadhyay), the role of computers in Hungarian civil society (Tom Wormald), on the relationship of information technologies to anthropological fieldwork through a consideration of internet-based clinical trials (by Jenny Advocat), on fieldwork in a web design company (Hannah Knox) and on how anthropological fieldwork might rise to the challenge of the bureaucratized, ‘objective’ forms of evaluation that anthropological researchers are increasingly facing (Susanne Langer) >> continue to Anthropology Matters 1/2005

New methods in the anthropology of science and technology is the topic of the new issue of the anthropology online journal "Anthropology Matters" that was published these days. The papers developed out of a panel at the Association of Social…

New articles on AnthroGlobe: Western Cybermythology / People of the open sea

Published on May 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, internet, journal articles / papers, Pacific Oceania

Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe – one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:

Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap

Since 1982 I visited the islands of the rei metau several times. My main focus of research were the “rites de passage”, weaving, structures of authority and medicine. In due course of my research I visited all their islands and atolls and analyzed the differences in the social structures of each single atoll. The way I will describe the rei metau in this paper represents the lives and self-esteem of the people as it can be experienced today. >> continue

Darrell A. Joyce: Modern Folklore: Cybermythology in Western Culture

Throughout the years, humans have used the oral tradition of folklore and legend to share stories, entertain, and to teach moral social lessons. The purpose of this paper is to briefly look at the evolution of urban legends from their “beginnings” in the turn of the 20 th century to present day, with specific attention to contemporary urban legends, and the application of internet/e-mail communications as a medium to further spread this modern form of folklore. Also, this paper attempts to answer the question of whether or not folklore continues to exist and be propagated in today’s society. >> continue

Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe - one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:

Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap

Since…

Culture and Environment – New issue of Pro Ethnologica is online

Published on May 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, interdisciplinary, journal articles / papers

Pro Ethnologica (published by the Estonian Eesti Rahva Muuseumi in Tartu) is one of the few anthropology Open Access journals. Their recent volume is dated back in December 2004 but the articles haven’t been onliner until now – probably due to copyright issues as Pille Runnel explained in an email to me. Runnell confirmed: “Pro Ethnologia is still an open access journal”.

From the editorial:

The texts illustrate the fuzzy quality and interdisciplinary nature of the debate in the broad tradition of ecological anthropology. This situation is represented in this volume by the fact that the articles are written by ethnologists, folklorists, and human geographers who share the same concern for human beings relation to the environment although the interpretations are different.

>> continue (pdf)

>> to Pro Ethnologica 18: Culture and Environment

Savage Minds – our first anthropological newspaper?

Published on May 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, websites

The anthropology group blog Savage Minds is only five days old, but there are already lots of blog entries and even more comments – or you should rather call the entries for articles: they are well written, detailed – “ready to print”. It looks like as if Savage Minds is on its way to be the most important anthropology site on the net.

These are at least my euphoric thoughts after reading today’s posts Armchair Anthropology in the Cyber Age? (Topic: How the web changes anthropology and its methods) by Kerim Friedman and Alex Golub’s answer Anthropology and the Clash of Civilizations where he draws the attention to the influence of popular ethnocentric online-videogames on the relation between “us” and “them” and Dustin M. Wax’s reflections Nothing Is Just after an anthropology lecture he held. He discusses one of the most central issues in anthropology: “Nothing is Just. Filmmaking isn’t “just” making movies. Marriage isn’t “just” a marker of committment. Family isn’t “just” the people you are related to. Giving gifts isn’t “just” a form of exchange.”

Savage Minds makes one (once more) think of the old-fashioned publishing conventions in social science where only paper publications are “accepted”. Here in Norway, the Norwegian Anthropological Association has started to include debates on published articles in their journals. But how is discussion possible when you have to wait three months for the next issue? How up-to-date can paper journals be? Their reviews are about books that are at least two years old! In their last issue they were “happy to announce” that they are going to present some papers of their last years’ annual conference in their next issue. Maybe Savage Minds can change their mind?

The anthropology group blog Savage Minds is only five days old, but there are already lots of blog entries and even more comments - or you should rather call the entries for articles: they are well written, detailed - "ready…