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Daniel Swan on Osage Uses of the North American Lotus
Ethnobotany Research and Applications is an important gold open access journal in the field of ethnobotany. It is now in the midst of publishing its 8th volume. I am pleased to note that my friend and...
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Looplore: DIY/Crafts Summer Camp for Grownups
Folklorist Kelley Totten (MA, U Oregon) will soon join the Ph.D. program in folklore at Indiana University. (Welcome Kelley!) Before arriving here, she and some colleagues are organizing the second...
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What Marketers Can Learn from the Food-Truck Trend – Grant McCracken –...
What Marketers Can Learn from the Food-Truck Trend – Grant McCracken – Harvard Business Review.Filed under: Foodways, Material Culture
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Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy
The Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (aka CHAMP) is a very active initiative at the at the University of Illinois. Led by anthropologist Helaine Silverman, it involves a huge...
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An organization whose work I am enthusiastic about is the Southern Foodways Alliance. Here I share news of its next oral history workshop. I quote from the call for participants and end with a link to...
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Material Culture Journalism, 4
“Five Siblings Run the U.S.’s Only Baijiu Distillery in Their Mom’s Backyard” by Anne Ewbank in Atlas Obscura. (HT/TL) #foodways “Chanel Shoes, but no Salary: How One Woman [Anthropologist] Exposed the...
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Material Culture Journalism, 5
Material culture journalism, continued. Thanks to those who share stories… “Gritty’s Evolution from Googly-eyed Hockey Mascot to Meme to Leftist Avatar, Explained | On our burning hunger for moral...
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Material Culture Journalism, 6
The new year has promoted a lot of material culture journalism related to lifestyle changes and consumption habits. Some of the items here fit into this frame, including older stores being recirculated...
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