An initiative by the Department of Anthropology, Durham University:
"The Writing Across Boundaries website is dedicated to the support of social science researchers who wish to engage more effectively with the practical and intellectual issues that arise in the quest to produce texts which are engaging, accurate and analytically insightful."
Writings on Writing by Marilyn Strathern, Harry F. Wolcott, Tim Ingold and many many more ...
"Durch das Synthesium sollen motivierte Menschen zusammenkommen, um sich über ihre Ideen, aktuellen Forschungen, Interessensgebiete und Beschäftigungsfelder in Form von allen möglichen Präsentationsweisen, Workshops, Round Tables und Arbeitsgruppen etc. auszutauschen."
"In 1993 and 1994, PROSPECTS published a series of profiles of 100 famous educators (including philosophers, statesmen, politicians, journalists, psychologists, poets, men of religion) from around of the world who have left their mark on educational thought."
Some of the featured scientists and educators: Emile Durkheim, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Margaret Mead ...
Eating lots and lots and lots of food ...
For friends, family and everybody else who's interested: my personal blog www.siamlabel.com on "doin' it in the field" :-)
an unpublished war-time study dated September, 1943.
Link to PDF: http://nla.gov.au/nla.gen-vn5040081
Comprehensive - yet newbie friendly - Reader
Recommended for everyone who is starting to delve into food and consumption studies:
Entertaining recap on the paradigm shifts in online research: http://www.slideshare.net/abc3d/introduction-to-social-media-for-qualitative-...
"In this panel, we examine the faces behind the food, how they are perceived, and the ways in which our expectations are often contradicted by our experiences. We discuss the race, culture, and gendered issues of street food and how we as consumers, and all of us as cities, approach these identities."
Street Food Conference, San Francisco 2010 - http://www.lacocinasf.org/resources/street-food-conference/
"In text-based social structures, every act of creating and negotiating identity, other, and culture is begun by the formation and sharing of words, sentences, fragments of meaning that are pastiched by individuals into patterns, woven into an ongoing tapestry we call social life. If we do not grapple with natural and necessary changes--in both the social structures we live in and study and the research norms we practice--wrought by our growing connections with communication technologies in an epoch of decentered authority and multi-authored realities, our research will not reflect the complexities we strive to understand."
Web Producer, Budding Anthropologist, Food Enthusiast, Urban Nomad.
Born in Bangkok. Currently working as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Vienna.
Enjoys Bollywood movies and Linux distro-hopping.
