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Item Northwestern Tanzania on a Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation(American Anthropological Association, 1997-08-01) Weiss, BradThe process of fermenting banana juice and ground millet into banana beer is an elaborate craft, practiced and appreciated by Haya men. As is the case in many African communities where the plenitude and desirability of beer is intimately connected with, if not indistinguishable from, the establishment and vigor of sociality itself, Haya brewers and drinkers are scrupulously attentive to the details of this often lengthy procedure (Carlson 1989; Karp 1980; Taylor 1991).' Many told me of their concern that jealous neighbors or sorcerers (often one and the same in Haya neighborhoods) would spoil their efforts by pouring kerosene into the frothy mixture during the night. But Haya evaluations of the fine points of the brewing process are by no means limited to anxious attempts to safeguard their valuable libations; there is, in fact, what can best be described as an aesthetic of beer production, and it is the demands of this aesthetic that dictate a careful and precise techniqueItem On the Evanescent and Reminiscent(Sensate: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice, 2012-06-01) Weiss, BradIn classic accounts, taste is dismissed as a “proximal sense,” too brutish to admit of refinement; and yet the term “taste” is also a synecdoche of aesthetic judgment itself. These contrasts inform this paper, which illustrates their expression in ethnographic particulars drawn from my research on pasture-raised pork in North Carolina. My intention is not to demonstrate what taste really is, but to ask how the multidimensionality of taste is realized in practice. This inquiry might further illuminate the connection between human perception and systems of value.Item Eating Ursula(University of California Press, 2014-01-01) Weiss, BradThis paper examines issues surrounding the values of farmers, consumers, chefs, and other food activists who are working to expand the production and consumption of pastured pork in central North Carolina (a region known as the Piedmont). What I try to demonstrate in this paper are the ways that an ‘‘ethics of care’’ (Heath and Meneley 2010) is often articulated in terms of the cultural categories of ‘‘connection’’ and ‘‘authenticity.’’ These consciously expressed categories are shown to undergird a range of commitments, from concerns about animal welfare, to support for ‘‘local’’ economies, to parental care for children. My discussion considers the relationships among the lives of animals and the meat they yield, as well as the craft that brings about that transformation, and shows how the ethical questions embedded in these relationships and processes depend upon a wider set of cultural practices and values that are pressing concerns in our larger economy and society. I further consider how examining everyday understandings of ‘‘connection’’ and ‘‘authenticity,’’ as revealed in ethnographic work with farmers, consumers, restaurateurs, and other food activists in the Piedmont, can highlight certain tensions within this ‘‘ethics of care’’—such as tensions about food taboos and certification processes—that speak to the politics of food activism in the region and elsewhere.Item Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensory Character of Place(American Anthropological Association, 2011-07-01) Weiss, BradThis article offers an attempt to characterize the relationship between “taste” and “place” as cultivated and embodied in the production, circulation, and consumption of pasture‐raised pork. I focus on the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and offer ethnographic evidence drawn from working with farmers, chefs and restaurant workers, as well as consumers at farmers’ markets to give substance to these discussions. The argument problematizes the category of “local food,” to interrogate the very notion of “place” and its many “tastes” (and other experiential qualities) with respect to the remaking and remapping of food production in the Piedmont. “Local food” is widely celebrated in this region, and pastured pork is a critical index of this “locality”; but here I ask how place itself is constituted, assigned concrete, experiential qualities, and so grasped in social practice. More than an attempt to specify the qualities of “the local” and their relationship with regional foodways, this article is concerned with the process that Lefebvre calls “the production of space.”Item Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania(American Anthropological Association, 2002-02-01) Weiss, BradExcerpt from publication: "One of the more compelling developments in contemporary sociocultural anthropology is it's increasing attention to 'the imagination'…Item Basil A. Reid (ed.), Caribbean Heritage. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012. x + 394 pp. (Paper US$40.00)(Brill, 2014-01-01) Antczak, Konrad A.Excerpt from publication: "Caribbean Heritage promises a multidisciplinary contribution that exposes through twenty-five essays the diverse contemporary perspectives on Caribbean heritage…Item Opening Access: Publics, Publication, and a Path to Inclusion(American Anthropological Association, 2014-01-01) Weiss, BradExcerpt from publication: "For many years, members of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA),as well as our executive board and editors, have been interested in pursuing anopen-access option for our flagship publication,Cultural Anthropology…"Item The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System(Brill, 2016-01-01) Smith, Frederick H.Excerpt from publication: "This interesting book explores the landscape of a Jamaican coffee estate through an explicitly Marxist lens that emphasizes power, surveillance, settlement patterns, and the spatial manifestations of plantation social relations. Drawing on archaeological evidence, plantation records, GIS data, and colonial maps, James Delle shows how changing modes of production from the period of Spanish colonization, through plantation slavery and the postemancipation rise of peasantries, altered the Jamaican landscape..."Item White animals: racializing sheep and beavers in the Argentinian Tierra del Fuego(Taylor & Francis, 2021-12-22) Dicenta, MaraIn the summer of 1946, a landowning bourgeoisie organized the II Livestock Exhibition of Tierra del Fuego, and the Argentinian Navy filmed the introduction of twenty Canadian beavers in the region. Both events echoed power disputes between a military government seeking to nationalize lands and capitals and the European landowners whose privileges were threatened. The events show that landowners and state officers negotiated their interests by articulating Argentina’s white exceptionalism with animals and against racialized others. Interrogating the interspecies articulation of whiteness in Tierra del Fuego during the 1940s, I examine how sheep and beavers helped secure white privilege through land concentration, breeding, racial purification, nature modernization, and eugenic moralities. To answer these questions, I analyze documents and films from local and national archives. My analysis shows the entangled racialization of humans and animals and its effects, including the appropriation of the Fuegian and native identification categories by settlers and the state. This article demonstrates that ‘White Argentina’ is a project desiring to live not only among white citizens but also among white animals. More broadly, I argue that including animals in race and ethnicity studies can better explain the intersectional production of race inequalities.Item Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race(University of Chicago Press, 2020-10-01) Blakey, Michael L.Racism is defined as a modern system of inequity emergent in Atlantic slavery in which “Whiteness” is born and embedded. This essay describes its transformation. The operation of racist Whiteness in current archaeology and related anthropological practices is demonstrated in the denigration and exclusion of Black voices and the denial of racism and its diverse appropriations afforded the White authorial voice. The story of New York’s African Burial Ground offers a case in point.Item Epistemology for a Humanistic Human Biology: the Case of the New York African Burial Ground Project at Howard University(Asociación Mexicana de Antropología Biológica, 2010-01-01) Blakey, Michael L."A basic respect for the meaning of culture (that human perceptions, ideas, and behaviors learned) demands us to accept that the human practice of science is thoroughly embedded in culture..."Item Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean. Scott M. Fitzpatrick & Ann H. Ross (eds.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xvi + 246 pp. (Cloth US$ 75.00)(Brill, 2013-01-01) Miller, Derek R.Excerpt from publication: "When did pre-Columbian settlement occur in the Caribbean? How many waves of migration were there and where did these settlers come from? Although previous research has provided some answers, this edited volume shows how innovative methodologies can provide new insights to these classic questions..."Item Beyond the Blockade: New Currents in Cuban Archaeology. Susan Kepecs, L. Antonio Curet & Gabino La Rosa Corzo (eds.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. ix + 206 pp. (Paper US$ 22.95)(Brill, 2013-01-01) Smith, Frederick H.Excerpt from publication: "This important volume is a testament to the tenacity of Cuban and U.S. scholars determined to dismantle the political and economic barriers that have impeded collaborative archaeological scholarship in Cuba."Item The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas. Keith L. Tinker. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. x + 199 pp. (Cloth US$ 69.95)(Brill, 2013-01-01) Turner, GraceExcerpt from publication: "Keith Tinker should be commended for tackling the complex topic of Caribbean migration to the Bahamas. He used a wide array of evidence, including colonial government documents, newspapers, books, and interviews with both immigrants and a few Bahamians."Item Islands in the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. xi + 313 pp. (Paper us$35.00)(Brill, 2015-01-01) Smith, Frederick H.Excerpt from publication: "This important volume explores the complex history of human relationships in the Caribbean through the lens of interaction, examining the movement of peoples as well as the exchange of goods and ideas throughout the island chain."Item The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology(Brill, 2015-01-01) Smith, Frederick H.Excerpt from publication: "This volume represents the most comprehensive collection to date of current Caribbean archaeological studies. The 38 essays address nearly every key archaeological issue concerning the human settlement of the Caribbean region and the development of Caribbean societies from the initial peopling of the region some 6000 years ago to European colonization and plantation slavery after 1492...."Item African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender(Brill, 2018-05-01) Gundaker, GreyExcerpt from publication: "The lacy bark of the Lagetta lagetto tree is the centerpiece of historian Steeve O. Buckridge’s tribute to the perseverance, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship of Caribbean women.Item Supplementary Material for a Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges(2020-07-02) Kahn, Jennifer G.; Dye, Thomas S.This document describes 24 Hawaiian adzes from the collection of B.P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It supplements and partially reproduces an article by the authors entitled ”Functional classification of Hawaiian curved-edge adzes and gouges” that was published in the Journal of Pacific Archaeology.Item Supplementary Material for Society Island Human-centered Canoe-web Database(2021-01-01) Kahn, Jennifer G.; Escue, ClaudiaThis document describes the structure of the Society Island Canoe-Webs Database. Data from 28 documents, including early European Explorer Accounts, Missionary Accounts, Ethnographic works, modern Botanical Surveys, and Archaeological and Museum Collection based studies, was mined in relation to pre-contact and contact era canoe manufacture and use in the Society Island archipelago of Eastern Polynesia (French Polynesia).Item Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip-Hop in a Time of Crisis(School for Advanced Research Press, 2008-08-28) Weiss, BradChild laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. The idea that young people are more malleable and the truisms that "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future" give news stories and scholarly accounts added meaning. To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children. Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children, from the design of toys to political mobilization, are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures.