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An ethnography of a neighbourhood café: informality, table arrangements and background noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Café society is something that many of us as customers and/or social theorists take for granted. Cafés are places where we are not simply served hot beverages but are also in some way partaking of a specific form of public life.
Buckner, K., Laurier, E., Whyte, A.
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Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Ethnography Study of Nutritional Conditions of Pregnant Women in Banten Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Maternal mortality in childbirth in developing countries is still high. The study describes the qualitative methods used to examine the knowledge, attitude, beliefs and behaviour related to nutrition and nutritional supplementation of pregnant women. The
Setyowati, S. (Setyowati)
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Consumption of, and beliefs about fonio (digitaria exilis) in urban area in Mali [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The study sought to determine beliefs and practices about neglected crops in West Africa, using fonio (Digitaria exilis) as a model to understand how obstacles impede the consumption of this cereal in Bamako, the capital city of Mali.
Brouwer, I.D.   +3 more
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Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Entrepreneurship as Affective Networks: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Food Markets

open access: yesRAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
Objective: to explain how affective networks support cultural entrepreneurship. Theoretical approach: theories of cultural entrepreneurship and affective networks, pointing out the relevance of networks and affectivity in this context.
Xênia L'amour Campos Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comidas del Zopilote

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM, 2014
In this article, ritual food is analyzed in the context of an annual offering to the vulture, during the “rain petition” ceremony in the Alto Balsas Nahua region, México.
Dominique Raby
doaj   +1 more source

“At first, I was only a subscriber”: re-mediating food citizens’ solidarity practices through digital technologies

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
In this paper, we explore how digital technologies re-mediate solidarity practices in alternative food networks (AFNs). To do so, the first author conducted an 8-month (auto-)ethnography of a community supported agriculture (CSA) initiative in ...
Aline Stehrenberger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strenthening local food systems: tracing learning of knowledge and skills by content and discourse analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The local food systems meet the food systems of scale on the local market, where the local and regional chains are looking for ways to survive and even to strengthen.
Mikkola, Minna
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Zooarchaeological Analysis of an Atoll Assemblage From Central Micronesia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There has been a dearth of archaeological research on atolls in the central‐eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. This has limited our understanding of pre‐contact subsistence and settlement strategies in these more marginal and remote environments, particularly in regards to zooarchaeological data.
Philippa Jorissen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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