Indigenous Health Agents in Amazonia: Creative Intermediations and a Poiesis of Care
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Category: Multilingual
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Call for papers: general frame
Introduction
Agricultural issues are currently in the limelight. They appear on the agenda of many institutions and governments. All over the world they provoke protests and demonstrations on the part of producers and consumers – involving…
A la Mémoire d’Igor de Garine
De Ricardo Avila
C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine.
Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’…
Document d’orientation, base de l’appel à communication
Introduction
Les questions agricoles sont aujourd’hui revenues sur le devant de la scène. Elles sont inscrites à l’agenda de nombreuses institutions ou pays. Elles suscitent aussi de nombreuses luttes de paysans, peuples « indigènes », cit…
Death of Mary Douglas, an Obituary
I have had the privilege of collaborating with Mary Douglas in the framework of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF) since 1978, but our paths first crossed much earlier, in 1962 when she was a member of the Internati…
The myth of the golden past: Critical perspectives on the paleo diet
The paper examines the Paleo Diet as a form of primitivism. After describing its constituents, it moves on to assess the evolutionary assumptions surrounding it through the lens of evolutionary mismatch theory. Evolutionary assumptions include t…
Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina: recursos locales, actores y globalización
Rebaï N., Bilhaut A.-G., de Suremain C.-E., Katz E., Paredes M., (eds.), 2021. Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina: recursos locales, actores y globalización, Lima, IFEA/IRD, 268 p.
El libro que a continuación comentamos, Patrimonio…
Book review of Fabio Parasecoli’s Gastronativism
Gastronativism : Food, Identity, Politics, Fabio Parasecoli; ISBN: 978-0-231-20207-7, Columbia University Press, New York, 2022.
Released at an extremely timely moment, Fabio Parasecoli’s Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics undertake…
Action theatre to explain and debate food democracy injustice
Alternative food structures, despite their core sociocultural justice values, experience difficulties in attracting members from diverse backgrounds. This article attempts to gain insight into the reasons for this paradox by assessing the findin…
Visualizing Data Shadow Donation
Within the context of datafication, participatory surveillance capitalism, and prospering rhetoric about scientific insight from big data exists the practice of data shadow donation. This relational activity refers to the digital gifting of pers…
Audio-visual-sensory Essays in Post-Digital Times
An introduction to the special issue, this article sets the stage for the essays that compose it. It addresses the transformations that have been taking place in the recent decades in the terrain of image-making, visual culture, visual technolog…
In Search of the Unknown
Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to s…
Presence and Absence in Mollusc Lifeworlds and Visual Essays
This article reconfigures and reflects on the author’s visual essay “MOLLusCS + mollUScs” (2019), which assembled narration on human-mollusc correspondences and a series of three black and white photos. With the aim to employ the trope of presen…
Crafting Essays on Life
Reflecting on the use of different tools within anthropological research and its outcomes, as well as positioning these tendencies within recent debates in the discipline, the article draws attention to the importance of form – the poetics of et…
The Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art
In 2008, an Indigenous Australian artist based in Melbourne – Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung) – created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art and cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspire…
Multisensory Ethnography Through Emplaced Augmented Reality
Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging thei…
Collaboration, Mediation, and Comparison
Four of the five articles in this special issue are authored by members of the Food Citizens? team. Together with our colleagues from the Security Vision project (fifth article), we reflect on the epistemological and methodological practices fol…
A Possible Framework for Digital Visuality.
With the ongoing penetration of digital technologies and tools across the world, the act of conducting visual research increasingly entails a capacity to incorporate a broader horizon characterised by multimodality and multisensoriality, by algo…
Visions of the Urban Green
The article investigates urban gardening in Turin with ethnography, historical analysis and photography, using both the authors’ photography and sources from social media and private archives. The authors collaborate to analyse ‘community’ garde…
Picturing the Group: Combining Photo-elicitation and Focus Group Methods
The aim of this paper is to address the potential of combining the focus group method with photo-elicitation in ethnographic research. The paper is based on my own experience with a photo-elicitation focus group (PEFG) consisting of five communi…
Combining Two Disciplines
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of the use of anthropology by photographers. Based on my personal experiences of two distinct ethnographic fieldworks, I argue that these two practi…
Visual Trust
The aim of this article is to present the research programme Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Scientific, Religious and Social Images. The main objective of this programme is to explore how people from different countries…
From Consensus to Diffraction
How does one map and visualise the complex arrangements of computer vision technologies used in the field of security in a collaborative setting where the research participants come from different scholarly traditions? This paper is an account o…