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Race And Rhythm In Rock And Roll, Hector Qirko
Race And Rhythm In Rock And Roll, Hector Qirko
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This chapter argues that contrary to conventional wisdom and the views of many scholars and critics, rock and roll’s most important rhythmic elements are derived from a complex blend of African, American, and European musical traditions. There is therefore no objective support for racialized characterizations of the “beat” that often serve, however unintentionally, to perpetuate stereotypes in discussions of both the genre and American popular music more broadly.
Does Our Being There Change What We Come To Study?, Lindsey King
Does Our Being There Change What We Come To Study?, Lindsey King
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
While documenting an ex-voto tradition in a small Roman Catholic shrine town in Northeast Brazil where pilgrims craft mimetic offerings in payment for a spiritual healing, I began to see subtle changes in the manufacture of and interest shown in these offerings. Was this just a coincidence or did my traveling from the United States with expensive cameras and recording equipment spark this change? In this discussion, I examine the “art” of anthropology, delving into the question of how our gaze may be changing the material traditions that we travel to study and what linking changes this may bring to …
Style And Configuration In Prehistoric Iconography, Vernon James Knight Jr.
Style And Configuration In Prehistoric Iconography, Vernon James Knight Jr.
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
The iconography of ancient art has to do with making propositions about what that art depicts. Stylistic studies, in contrast, make propositions about the sharedness of formal properties with other objects. These can be done separately. Although many iconographic analyses of ancient art proceed with little or no consideration of style, I argue that the two modes of analysis are interdependent. I offer a methodological case that stylistic analysis is logically prior to iconographic study in the domain of ancient art. This observation argues for a distinctively staged approach to the iconography of ancient objects, one in which detailed stylistic …
Defining Art In The Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival, Rachel Syka
Defining Art In The Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival, Rachel Syka
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This chapter explores the role of identity, place, and origin of the artists in the Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival in Gozo, Malta. Based on research conducted in July 2010 for a summer field school in sociocultural anthropology, I draw on conversations with several of the artists showing their work, as well as interactions with local organizing officials, arts instructors, and Gozitan artists and craftspeople not directly involved in the exhibit. I argue that the event is a space in which central questions of Gozitan identity are actively addressed and negotiated, focusing particularly on the manner in which the international …
Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, And The Aesthetic Economy, Susan Falls
Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, And The Aesthetic Economy, Susan Falls
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Contemporary art is seldom given sustained anthropological analysis despite its tantalizing potential. As a response, this essay examines the work of Thomas Kinkade to cast an oblique light on the production of value. Kinkade’s mechanically reproduced opus representing Cotswold cottages, quaint city scenes, and Disney fantasies are sold by authorized dealers in malls, along tourist strips, and online. Rather than operating as kitsch, lowbrow, or a new model for art-making, Kinkade’s overt profit motive, self-celebration, and evangelical Christianity refract political, economic, and especially aesthetic constructions that undergird contemporary markets. A bad boy of the aesthetic economy, Kinkade’s work, mostly dismissed …
A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt
A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This chapter analyzes local notions of authenticity drawing on ethnographic data collected during thirteen months of fieldwork in the rural village of Quinua, Peru. The author highlights how local ceramic artisans conceived of authenticity, which, it is argued, is encapsulated by local terms and material practices surrounding the concept of artesano verdadero. Artisans in Quinua share, borrow, and even “steal” designs from others. Within this context, artisans persistently evaluated each other based on these practices. Ultimately, the narratives artisans tell themselves and others about who they are, and are not, as artisans, thereby put forth claims about who counts and …
Mirror Dance: Tourists, Artists, And First People Heritage In Botswana, Jessica Stephenson
Mirror Dance: Tourists, Artists, And First People Heritage In Botswana, Jessica Stephenson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Arts destined for the tourist market have long been devalued and set aside from serious study. They are considered mass-produced, artistically uninteresting, and inferior in quality. Recent scholarship counters these views; many forms of tourist art can be recognized as artistically inventive and conceptually complex authentic objects of significance to both client and artist. Here the paintings and prints created by artists affiliated with the Kuru Art Project in Botswana are considered as forms of autoethnography, after Mary Louis Pratt’s term for indigenous autobiographies created in the context of “contact zones.” Autoethnographies are received heterogeneously—in this case, as both nostalgic …
A Memoir Of An Other, Robert C. Philen
A Memoir Of An Other, Robert C. Philen
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
I am the literary executor for my late partner, the prolific poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd. Shepherd often spoke of writing a memoir but never had the chance to do so before his death. However, the essays he wrote, his poetry, his correspondences, and other writings contain many, many fragments of memoiristic material in his voice. I am in the process of assembling these fragments into his posthumous memoir, and the project bears a strong relationship to the long tradition of ethnographic biographies, as well as being a strong example of bricolage and mythic thinking. Here, I will reflect on …
Pocahontas And Rebecca: Two Tales Of A Captive, Margaret Williamson Huber
Pocahontas And Rebecca: Two Tales Of A Captive, Margaret Williamson Huber
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
The Jamestown colonists’ accounts of their capture of Pocahontas, her reactions to life among them, and the consequences for the success of the colony differ radically from the Mattaponi Indian oral history of the same events, published in 2007. Both versions present themselves as “true” — that is, objective reporting of real events; but the fact that each inverts the other raises questions of validity and, ultimately, of historiography in general. This paper argues that the question of veracity is irrelevant to our interpretation of these accounts. Instead, we must take them as representations of a culturally conceived reality—that is, …
Disciplined Aesthetics: Fashioning Art And Anthropology, Brandon D. Lundy
Disciplined Aesthetics: Fashioning Art And Anthropology, Brandon D. Lundy
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll
Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Monumental architecture, massive statuary, and other art forms fascinate Westerners and tend to inspire positive judgments about past cultural virtuosity and sophistication. Like the pyramids of Egypt or the stone masonry of Machu Picchu, the moai (the statues) and ahu (stone platforms supporting moai) of Rapa Nui (a.k.a. Easter Island) have impressed, mystified, and preoccupied the Western cultural imagination since their encounter by Europeans. Explorers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and tourists are drawn to the monumental like moths to light—which is understandable—but that light also blinds. Here a case is made that for Rapa Nui the obsession for the monumental has led …
Preface And Acknowledgments, Brandon D. Lundy
Preface And Acknowledgments, Brandon D. Lundy
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Contributors, Journal Editors
Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Fair Fare?: Food As Contested Terrain In U. S. Prisons And Jails, Avi Brisman
Fair Fare?: Food As Contested Terrain In U. S. Prisons And Jails, Avi Brisman
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson
Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Cherokee Snakebite Remedies, David Cozzo
Cherokee Snakebite Remedies, David Cozzo
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Ramps: Appalachian Delicacies That “Smells God-Awful, But Cures What Ails Ya”, Lisa J. Lefler
Ramps: Appalachian Delicacies That “Smells God-Awful, But Cures What Ails Ya”, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Traditional Foodways In The Arkansas Delta, C. Laine Gates, Justin M. Nolan, Mary Jo Schneider
The Politics Of Traditional Foodways In The Arkansas Delta, C. Laine Gates, Justin M. Nolan, Mary Jo Schneider
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Contributors, Journal Editors
Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
“Ooo Ooo, Aah Aah”: People, Bonobos, And Mirrored Projections At The Zoo, Robert Shanafelt
“Ooo Ooo, Aah Aah”: People, Bonobos, And Mirrored Projections At The Zoo, Robert Shanafelt
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Kegare Concept, Lauren Levine
The Kegare Concept, Lauren Levine
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Searching For The Spirit: Researching Spirit-Filled Religion In Guatemala, C. Mathews Samson
Searching For The Spirit: Researching Spirit-Filled Religion In Guatemala, C. Mathews Samson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Making Africa Accessible: Bringing Guinea-Bissau Into The University Classroom, Brandon D. Lundy
Making Africa Accessible: Bringing Guinea-Bissau Into The University Classroom, Brandon D. Lundy
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Causes Mini-Film Festival: Anthropology For Public Consumption, Matthew Richard, Andrea Zvikas
Causes Mini-Film Festival: Anthropology For Public Consumption, Matthew Richard, Andrea Zvikas
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
“I Didn’T Evolve From No Monkey”: Religious Narratives About Human Evolution In The U.S. Southeast, H. Lyn White Miles, Christopher Marinello
“I Didn’T Evolve From No Monkey”: Religious Narratives About Human Evolution In The U.S. Southeast, H. Lyn White Miles, Christopher Marinello
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Enculturating Student Anthropologists Through Fieldwork In Fiji, Sharyn R. Jones, Loretta A. Cormier, Caitlin Aamodt, Jade Delisle, Anna Mccown, Mallory Messersmith, Megan Noojin
Enculturating Student Anthropologists Through Fieldwork In Fiji, Sharyn R. Jones, Loretta A. Cormier, Caitlin Aamodt, Jade Delisle, Anna Mccown, Mallory Messersmith, Megan Noojin
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Human Scales, Thomas Brasdefer
Human Scales, Thomas Brasdefer
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.