After Douglas Crimp Questionnaire Response: Zheng Bo
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Introduction to the blog series by Endre Dányi (J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main), Clément Dréano (University of Amsterdam) and Gergely Mohácsi (Osaka University) danyi@em.uni-frankfurt.de January 3, 2022 . For quite some time now, strong voi…
After Douglas Crimp: Questionnaire
by Daly Arnett, Kendall Deboer, Bridget Fleming, and Peter Murphy Featured image: Courtesy of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester. As a special insert for Issue 33 of Invisible Culture, we are pleased to present respons…
After Douglas Crimp Questionnaire Response: TT Takemoto
A memorable assertion from Douglas Crimp:“Of course, everyone knows that the most difficult sport at the Olympics is synchronized swimming.” TT Takemoto is Dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts and was Crimp̵…
Self-Authoring an Open Textbook for General Anthropology: Worth the Time and Effort?
Students in higher education are facing challenges with paying for their education. Cost of course materials, primarily textbooks, continues to be a financial concern. As a result, students often delay or simply do not purchase the materials they need …
Repacking the Sacred Bundle: Suggestions for Teaching Four-Field Anthropology
The four fields within American anthropology are periodically under discussion, especially when it comes to applying them in a holistic way. Various roadblocks, both institutional and personal, currently prevent greater development of holistic studies….
Ethnographic Insights Across Cultures: Remote Futures for Teaching and Learning Anthropology
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced myriad challenges for teaching anthropology and has altered the academic landscape for years to come. However, it has also brought new opportunities for improving coursework with creative digital methods and online …
Thinking Outside the Comfort Zone: Implementing Debates in an Online Anthropology Course
The debate technique has the potential to encourage students to critically think and engage in anthropology courses in higher education. But debates can be challenging, especially when taking place in an online environment. This article presents the im…
Developing an Ecology of Seeing: Teaching with Participant Observation for Urban Environments
As a central method of ethnographic research, participant observation is often utilized in college-level courses to prompt the development of applied and anthropological thinking. This article examines the possibilities of participant observation as a …
Un festin imaginaire
Les scènes de préparation et de dégustation de repas sont omniprésentes dans l’animation japonaise, des films pour le cinéma internationalement réputés comme Le Voyage de Chihiro aux séries télévisées populaires comme Food Wars! L’héritage du ma…
Kung food : chorégraphier les gestes culinaires
Ce texte s’intéresse à un sous genre des films de kung fu tournés à Hong Kong et à Shanghai depuis les années 1990, que l’on pourrait nommer « kung food », à partir de la rencontre entre la cuisine chinoise et le kung fu. Dans ces films réalisés…
Aguranabe, petite histoire des tabous alimentaires de la consommation de viande dans le Japon au milieu du XIXe siècle
Dans d’innombrables ouvrages littéraires japonais, fictions et non-fictions, la description de la nourriture joue un rôle de miroir reflétant l’évolution de la société. Nous tenterons d’éclairer certaines problématiques et préoccupations populai…
Représentations graphiques de la culture culinaire populaire de la région d’Hanoi au début du XXe siècle, Vietnam
Cet article se propose de donner un aperçu visuel de la cuisine populaire de la région d’Hanoi (Vietnam) au début du XXe siècle. Pour cela, nous disposons de sources graphiques abondantes rassemblées dans l’ouvrage de référence d’Henri Oger « Te…
The Chinese cook’s knife
The tool used in Chinese kitchens to cut ingredients, whether professional or domestic, is of a single model: a wide, perfectly sharpened rectangular blade fixed on a handle. Difficult to use for a novice, it requires a real apprenticeship. But …
Le goût de l’indifférence
Cet article propose de suivre quelques mouvements de revalorisation de la sauce soja artisanale dans le Japon contemporain. Alors que la sauce soja à macération lente en fûts de cèdre ne représente aujourd’hui qu’un pourcent de la production sur…
La « montée » de la cuisine du Guangxi : décloisonnement culinaire
La cuisine de la Région autonome du Guangxi, dans le Sud de la Chine, est définie sous les termes du local, du sauvage et de l’ethnique comme étant des marqueurs d’identification, de différenciation et de sophistication vis-à-vis de la cuisine l…
La technique, l’esthétique et le plaisir des saveurs en bouche
Au Monet, ce restaurant de gastronomie française situé en haut d’une tour de luxe sur la place centrale Sühbaatar d’Ulaanbaatar, Bold, chef cuisinier, me fait visiter les cuisines, impeccables, et me présente l’équipe du midi, qui finit de netto…
The Raw and the Cooked in Japanese cuisine
Using the famous culinary triangle theorized by Claude Lévi-Strauss, this paper tries to determine the place of the raw in the Japanese culinary model and to understand how it became so iconic. For this purpose, the research focuses on the relat…
Número 9 completo
Numero 9 complet
Allò social i allò farmacèutic en temps de pandèmia. Relatoria dels conversatoris de l’Associació Antropologies
Per a aquest conversatori sobre com s’entreteixeix allò social i allò farmacèutic en aquests temps de pandèmia, es va utilitzar la noció de «mindful body» en què Scheper-Hughes i Lock (1987:6-41) per la proposta d’una forma d’anàlisi del cos i la salut…
Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar
Myanmar is home to over 54.8 million people, consisting of over 100 ethnolinguistic groups with distinct linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. Since Myanmar gained independence from Great Britain, education has been used as the main politic…
The Ideological Stance of Multilingualism in Education in Malaysia in the Press 2000-2020
The past 20 years have witnessed major shifts in language and education policy in Malaysia. This reflects a range of social, economic, and political forces that influence and shape the policymaking in this multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Past r…
Participatory Engagement for Sustainable Innovation in Karen Communities
This paper reports on heritage fieldwork by the Mahidol Cultural Anthropology Museum, carried out from 2019 to 2020, with a group of four Karen villages in Doi Si Than, or ‘Four Creeks Mountain’, a valley in the remote Northwest of Thailand. The resear…