Vintilă Mihăilescu: Main publications
Main publication of Vintilă Mihăilescu.
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A note from the Editor-in-chief.
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In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020).
Extending terroir: Icelandic lamb production and the taste of land(rights)
The term réttir in Iceland denotes a series of annual events occurring in the smaller towns and agricultural regions outside the capital of Reykjavík. Translated literally to “gathering,” the réttir season begins in early September and consists …
Translations of Terroir: Constructing and Marketing a Sense of Place in the Basque Country
A distinguishing and authenticating element of Basque culture is created with the use of its language, Euskara. Key words in this non-Indo-European language are commonly sighted to market local products such as milk, wine, and cider to create va…
Variability and Change
This article examines how central Ohio winegrowers are able to manufacture “the taste of place” in the midst of a dominant global discourse that maintains a rhetoric of anthropogenic climate change. Importantly, this work positions climate as no…
Introduction
This set of articles, based in recent ethnographic fieldwork by a new generation of anthropologists, taken together, make a compelling case that terroir continues to have a certain explanatory power; terroir, or the taste of place, reflects and …
Terroir and the Family Farm
I argue that the concept of terroir is related to ideas about locally produced foods and health or wellbeing. Consumer demand for local foods and an emerging interest in terroir hold great potential for mobilizing meaningful social change relate…
Book Review: Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Endogenous Obstacles to Development in Global Value Chains: Insights From the Oil and Gas Sector
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The World Bank promotes integration into global value chains as the path towards development. By liberalising their respective national economies, African countries are expected to benefit from economic impulses, with m…
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article explores Ghana’s preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the socio-economic impact of these measures in urban marketplaces. It argues that Ghana’s COVID-…
Faith and agency on the Camino: walking between shared ‘substance’ and cultural (dis)appearance
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A stain in the picture
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‘To anthropology, from meat prison’
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Obituary: Nicholas Justin ‘Nick’ Allen, 1939-2020
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Fifty years of JASO
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MAE-MAT Early Career Paper Award
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Gender in the Making: A Pragmatic Approach to Transgender Experiences in Lowland Tropical America
Based on long-term fieldwork experiences among both the Guna in Panama and the Kakataibo in Peruvian Amazonia, this article proposes to examine the transgender phenomenon in indigenous America. Making use of the notions of performance and status, w…
Christianity + Schooling on Nature versus Culture in Amazonia
Based on the analysis of Evangelical Biblical translations, as well as on the school writing of Wari’ (Southwestern Amazonia) students, produced in indigenous secondary school classrooms and at the intercultural university, this article aims to sho…
Singularity on the Margins: Autobiographical Writings among the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia
Inspired by Stephen Hugh-Jones’s suggestion of a fit between Tukanoan writing genres and their sociocultural systems, in this article we explore Shuar autobiographical writings in light of Chicham (Jivaroan) individualism. By exploring first-person…
The Shuar Writing Boom: Cultural Experts and the Creation of a “Scholarly Tradition”
In dialogue with Stephen Hugh-Jones’s work on Tukanoan writing, this article analyzes the boom in patrimonial writing among Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking Shuar people. Patrimonial writing foregrounds collective identity and understandings of culture …
Maloca-Escola: Transformations of the Tukanoan House
This paper aims to demonstrate how, by combining the foundation of an indigenous school with the construction of a longhouse (maloca), the Tukano indigenous association of the Hausirõ and Ñahuri Porã clans, Middle Tiquié river, produces social rela…
Patrimony, Publishing, and Politics: Books as Ritual Objects in Northwest Amazonia
With particular reference to works by Tukano and Desana authors, this paper examines some of the cultural and historical factors that underlie the unique propensity of indigenous peoples of Northwest Amazonia to publish their narrative histories in…
Good Reasons or Bad Conscience: A Postscript
Published in French in 1996, the original article for which this comprises a post-script set indigenous Amazonians’ attitudes to meat alongside those of Euro-Americans. With the accelerating deforestation of Amazonia linked with the cultivation of …
Good Reasons or Bad Conscience? Or Why Some Indian Peoples of Amazonia Are Ambivalent about Eating Meat
Originally written for a conference on meat attended by farmers, anthropologists, people involved in cultural affairs, and other members of the public, and seeking to avoid emphasis on cultural difference, this paper explores common ground between …