Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

AvCristina Grasseni

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Many people feel that the impact of technology and the pressure of the market economy on alpine communities leads to a loss of biodiversity, authenticity and cultural diversity, affecting animal husbandry, local food production, social networks and traditions. It is undeniable that "progress," "development" and "integration" are transforming working routines, recipes for dairy production and patterns of communication in rural communities. This book explores the many tensions at the core of present local practices and debates in the Italian Alps, highlighting the many transformations undergone within skilled practice and cultural heritage as a result of commoditization, professionalization and technification, with a special focus on the ways in which this also means, quite literally, changing one's vision of locality: of the landscape, of local products and of local animals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:European Anthropology in Translation
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845455378

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Cristina Grasseni is a Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University (the Netherlands).

Recensioner i media

“I recommend this book to readers …interested in a rich ethnographic engagement with some of the key issues of materiality, skill, the senses and emplacement arising from the work of Ingold and Latour, and from the concerns of apprenticeship studies and visual anthropology. At the same time, it is an important contribution to revitalizing European community studies by combining concerns about place and identity with these other contemporary theoretical trends.” · Material World

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresForewordAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. From Community Studies to Communities of PracticeSkill, Place and IdentityFrom Community Studies to Communities of PracticeIdentity, Emplacement and PhenomenologyTowards an Ecology of PracticeA Place at the Margins of Europe?Going Rural ConclusionChapter 2. Blessed Be the Car!The Problem of PlaceRootsShifting TracksRoutesCommuting to ChurchBlessed Be the CarConclusionChapter 3. From Observational Documentary to Skilled VisionFilm as EthnographyWorldviews and the Anthropology of VisionThe Critique of VisionSkilled VisionBreeding AestheticsConclusionChapter 4. Skilled PracticeSkill, Technology and FarmingEncountering Breeding Strategies in the FieldLife on the FarmLocalising Skills?ConclusionChapter 5. Skilled Vision and Animal HusbandryTowards an Ecology of Skilled VisionsLooking as a Form of Cultural BelongingIndustrialising OrganismsExpert Looks, Moral LooksConclusionChapter 6. Reinventing SkillsMobilising SkillsTaleggio – a Cheese and a ValleyLocal Products, Local MemoriesNew Skin for Old CheeseConclusionBibliographyFilmographyIndex