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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Course Revisited: Reflections on Policy, Praxis, and Protest

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is a personal reflection on how SAFN addressed my academic identity crisis in the late 70s. The development of the anthropology of food and nutrition provided opportunities to refashion disciplinary praxis and to link the little and the large in interesting ways.
Penny Van Esterik
wiley   +1 more source

Human occupations at the Alpysbaev Cave (western Tian Shan): Bioarchaeological insights from the Iron Age burial cluster. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Namen A   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Space for “us”: Sensory Ethnography as an Embodied Method in Food Anthropology

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Minority communities are vulnerable to poor health due to diet‐related diseases, a fact that food anthropologists have long discussed. This is also something that the individuals living within constrained food environments are aware of and challenge intellectually and on an embodied basis through food choices based on cultural and physical ...
Carolyn Mason
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Digital Transformation Dilemma of Chinese Museums: A Comparative Study

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore the key challenges encountered by Chinese museums during digital transformation. Based on in‐depth interviews with 16 experts, this paper employs a comparative thematic approach. The findings highlight the differences between provincial, municipal, and county museums in terms of policy, finance, equipment, and staff.
Mengning Han
wiley   +1 more source

Maya Postclassic persistence in the Birds of Paradise Wetland Fields, Belize. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sánchez-Morales LM   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A monumental work by French artist Stéphane Thidet became the nexus for an unexpected interaction between an art installation and wildlife. “Weeping Stones,” which presents a desert‐like world, devoid of greenery, was featured in an exhibition we co‐curated at the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2020.
Tamar Mayer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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