Ethnos – Volume 82, Issue 2 (2017): Includes the Theme Issue: Consumer and Consumed: Humans and Animals in Globalising Food Systems
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
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- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
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- 21948
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- One question informing this theme issue is an empirical one: in what ways have industrialised meat production and food system globalisation affected human-animal relations, and in particular approaches to animals-as-food? Another is theoretical: to what extent are anthropological conceptualisations of ‘culture’, as deployed for example in studies of ritual, classification and prohibitions, useful for understanding meat-eating and meat-avoidance in the context of globalising, industrialising food systems? The theme issue began as a panel entitled ‘Biting Back: Eating and Not Eating Meat in Industrialising Food Systems’, initiated and convened by me and Staples for the 2011 annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA). Early versions of the respective, individual contributions by the co-editors were presented at the conference. Following feedback during the conference, I made substantial revisions to my piece, including adding new fieldwork data collected in Kunming, China in 2012. The three other presenters at the original conference panel did not contribute to the theme issue. Instead, we – the editors – invited contributions from three known specialists working in the area of human-animal relations, meat-eating and vegetarianism to submit manuscripts to the planned collection. My co-editor and I reviewed all submissions (including each other’s) at least twice, and all the submissions were sent out by Ethnos for blind peer-review. Additional input was provided by the journal’s editors-in-chief. In the jointly authored Introduction, my co-editor and I spell out the theme issue’s key questions, review the literature and make the argument that ‘culture’, including ‘the human propensity to combine and make meaning of new phenomena in patterned ways’ (p.197), is an important tool in the study of meat and human-animal relations in globalising food systems. My single-authored piece, ‘Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurants and the Changing Meanings of Meat in Urban China’, develops this argument in relation to contemporary China.
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