Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies最新文献

{"title":"Reimagining Irish food ways for the twenty-first century","authors":"Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Lillis Ó Laoire","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1957194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1957194","url":null,"abstract":"Food and drink are fundamental to life, and apart from costume, they are among the most noticeable markers of cultural otherness within intercultural encounters. There is a current global interest in foods that are artisanal, local, traditional, seasonal and sustainable, and that tell a cultural story, as witnessed by the popularity of the Nordic Food Movement, or the 2021 Netflix series High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America. In 2019, the Royal Irish Academy published A History of Ireland in 100 Words, which had a special chapter on ‘Food and Feasting’ highlighting the importance of bread, milk, apples, and honey as iconic Irish foods, and including drinking horns, forks, cauldrons, and the champion’s portion ‘curadhmhír’ as other important cultural elements within Ireland’s history. Food history has been gaining momentum globally for over half a century. In an Irish context, it has been sixty years since A.T. Lucas’s seminal paper ‘Irish food before the potato’ was published in this very journal. Other individual researchers on Irish food history, traditions and customs included Kevin Danaher, Fergus Kelly, Louis Cullen, Bríd Mahon, and more recently Finbar McCormick, Katherine Simms and Patricia Lysaght. It has been forty years since Alan Davidson and Theodore Zeldin established the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. The symposium provided both a network and an audience for international ethnographers and food scholars such as Claudia Roden, Elisabeth Luard and Charles Perry to showcase their research, not to mention Irish symposiasts such as Myrtle Allen, Regina Sexton, Darina Allen, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire (the present guest editor), Dorothy Cashman, Diarmuid Cawley, and Anke Klitzing, four of whom feature in this special thematic issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. Inspired by the Oxford Symposium, the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (DGS) was organized as a biennial event in 2012. This initial meeting resulted in the publication of ‘Tickling the Palate:’ Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture in 2014, part of Peter Lang’s Reimagining Ireland series. This edited collection focused a food lens on Irish authors such as Maria Edgeworth, James Joyce, John McGahern, and Sebastian Barry, along with exploring food and drink consumption in various segments of Irish society from the elite households of eighteenth-century Ireland to the Dublin tenements of the 1950s, and on to the emergence of Ireland as a ‘foodie nation’ with the proliferation of Michelin starred restaurants and the widespread exportation of Irish pubs. The DGS was a collaboration between culinary researchers at Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street and key members of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS) at the Institute of Technology Tallaght, at a time when the TU Dublin project was only aspirational. AFIS conferences soon began to organize gastronomy sessions, and further foodrelated chapters appeared in a number of other ","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41365944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Irish country furniture and furnishings 1700-2000","authors":"Gillian O'Brien","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1969770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1969770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47566853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Is Irish Stew the only kind of stew we can afford to make, mother?” The history of a recipe","authors":"D. Cashman, John Farrelly","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1957420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1957420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper traces the social, political and culinary history of Irish stew from what are its earliest iterations through to its inclusion in a recently published collection of Irish recipes. The constituent ingredients are contextualized and the emergence of oral and printed recipes tracked within a theoretical framework that gives equal importance to the political and social contexts that existed as successive recipes for the dish gained currency. The shifts in meanings and associations of the dish among different people – those who observed and commented on the Irish, and the Irish themselves – are traced, detailing its emergence from painful association with subsistence living to a confident place in the pantheon of Irish cuisine – an important part of Ireland’s intangible cultural heritage.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44586853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Farming in Cumbria: the Tullie house collection","authors":"D. Viner","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1969764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1969764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48068202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dressing the dead: evidence from Greek popular literature, oral lament and ethographic field work","authors":"M. Varvounīs, N. Macha-Bizoumi","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1898760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1898760","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we address issues relative to the clothes used to dress the dead in Greek culture in modern times through to the present. This is done firstly by using descriptions from popular artistic prose, many of which provide significant detail. More specifically, we draw upon testimony from songs about death and the moirologia (laments or dirges), sung over the corpse, based on references in primary folkloric material in both printed and handwritten collections. We also draw from 100 ethnographic interviews conducted between 2005–12. We include all the types of clothes, differentiations in urban and rural areas, in social and economic class, and in gender and age. We also shed light upon the possible ritual uses of these clothes, as encountered in the death customs of the Greek people.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1898760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42550134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enemies in the Empire: civilian internment in the British Empire during the First World War","authors":"M. Richardson","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1899462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899462","url":null,"abstract":"debates about truth and fiction as false seances began to occur, in which mediums performed fake apparitions, claiming to communicate with real spirits. The author lists other renowned names from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as Mesmer and his experiments, Allan Kardec ‘the codifier’ of Spiritism, and the Spiritualist medium Madame Blavatsky. They indicated what the nineteenth century would characterize as the modern seances: meetings of mediums around tables for communicating with spirits. Morton dedicates herself in great detail to the phenomenon of the Fox sisters in the United States, demonstrating their methodical structuring of the communication. In addition, William Crookes and his debate on sensitive people and telepathy, the emergence of societies for the study of spiritualist phenomena and Houdini’s illusions were events that, according to the author, prove the intellectual effort towards the debate concerning the communication with spirits. Finally, Morton points out the continuity of seances in the twentieth century on the grounds of charlatanism, Ouija boards and experiments with ectoplasm. She also tells us about the contemporary application of the topic, for instance the medical reports about life after death, mediums who work with the police to solve cases, and the experiments with paranormal activities and telepathy. Moreover, the reader will notice the fluidity of people’s mentalities, religions and practices through time, but the consensus between sceptics and believers remains the same: humans possess an innate desire to believe that, somehow, life continues after death. Whether by searching for answers beyond the materialistic philosophies or by seeking for some comfort to deal with the loss of beloved ones, humanity has always sought some kind of explanation. This book is a good first contact for readers who have never read about the topic. It is aimed at the general public and, for this reason, the linear historical periodization allows neophytes to realize the intention of mapping the phenomenon throughout the history of humanity. The accessible language enables a fluid reading and, most importantly, makes the book enjoyable. The author does not quote from historical documentation directly; however, the book explores a large bibliography, being a helpful resource for those interested in pursuing the subject further. Despite her focus on exploring the phenomena in Englishspeaking countries, with occasional mentioning of seances in other countries, the author’s inventory of personalities from the field of communication with spirits offers a wide range of research possibilities for readers.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43214389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Miners, mariners and masons: the global network of victorian freemasonry","authors":"M. Dennis","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1899467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44800187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconstructing early shieling landscapes & land-use in Cumbria during the Viking Age","authors":"Ryan Foster","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1891729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1891729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents a historical and cultural geographic approach to landscape development in Cumbria, through an examination of shieling names. A lack of contemporary written sources and few archaeological excavations leave place-names as an important source of evidence. This paper examines cultural practices associated with shielings to help explain how landscape was exploited and what this tells us about Scandinavian settlement in the Viking Age.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1891729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48923721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The story of Danish museums","authors":"D. Eveleigh","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1899454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899454","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48276024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Magical house protection – the archeology of counter-witchcraft","authors":"E. McMullen","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1899459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2021.1899459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44051577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}