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2004 Annual Meeting
2004 SEA Annual
Meeting
April 22-24, 2004
Decatur,
Georgia
Registration
Program Schedule
Travel Information
Program Chair:
Richard Wilk, Department of Anthropology, Indiana
University, Student Building 242, Bloomington, IN 47405-5700 (wilkr@indiana.edu)
Local Arrangements Coordinator:
Peggy Barlett, Department of Anthropology, Emory
University, Decatur, GA 30322. (pbarlett@emory.edu)
Program Theme - Fast Food
- Slow Food:
Social and Economic Contexts of
Food and Food Systems
The Society for Economic Anthropology seeks proposals
for papers and poster presentations for our 2004 annual meetings,
which will be held in Atlanta. The topic of the meeting will be
food and food systems, at scales ranging from the personal to
the global, and over time from hominid origins to the future globalization
of food systems.
The
SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent
program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in
a convivial intellectual setting. About 15 papers are selected
from abstracts for a program that allows 20 minutes for presentation
and 20 minutes for discussion in a single plenary session over
two days. 20-30 additional abstracts will be selected for an afternoon
poster session. The conference organizer then edits a conference
volume which appears in the SEA book series, published by Altamira
Press. We will have a food-oriented tour in Atlanta, an informal
workshop on teaching and curriculum innovations, and of course,
opportunities for fine dining.
Fast
food and slow food represent two visions of the future of food,
two modes of analysis, two ways to connect food to other social
and economic phenomena. Fast food is efficient, technological,
homogenized; the product of an aggressively expanding global political
economy. The slow food movement, on the contrary, is about aesthetics,
conviviality, domesticity and local cultural knowledge. Both are
equally modern.
We
seek papers that go beyond the traditional anthropologies of food
that focus on the role of food in group identity and social integration,
emphasizing the division between traditional and modern foodways. We encourage approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries, use
innovative methods, and explore connections between food and the
cultural economy. Possible
topics for papers include (but are by no means limited to):
- Food
systems and the global division of labor
- Food
circulation and exchange as gifts and commodities
- Food,
domesticity, gender & household
- The
origins of complex food systems
- Food
market systems, localization & sustainability
Send an abstract for paper or poster of 400-600
words to Richard Wilk, Anthropology Dept., Indiana University,
Bloomington IN 47405, or by email to wilkr@Indiana.edu.
Deadline for Abstracts is November 1, 2003.
Program Schedule
Thursday - April 22, 2004
| 5:00 - 9:00 pm |
Registration: Conference Center Rotunda |
| 5:00 - 7:00 pm |
Reception hosted by Agnes Scott College, Georgia State University
and Emory University Departments of Anthropology: Science
Center Baker Atrium |
| 6:30 - 8:00 pm |
SEA Editorial Board Meeting: Rutland Board Room |
| 8:00 - 10:00 pm |
SEA Board Meeting: Rutland Board Room |
Friday - April 23, 2004
| 7:30 - 8:30 am |
Registration: Conference Center Rotunda |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Mary Gay Room
Richard Wilk (Indiana University) and Peggy Barlett (Emory
University) |
Session I - The Transformation
of Indigenous Food Systems
Chair -Lynne Milgram |
Session II – Problematics
of Slow Food
Chair - Stuart Plattner |
Saturday - April 24, 2004
Session III – Fast Food
: Asian Appropriations Mary Gay Room
Chair – Deborah Winslow |
Session IV –New Social
Contexts of Fast Food
Chair – Judith Marti |
Session V – New Relationships
between Local and Global Food Systems
Chair – Gracia Clark (Indiana University)
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Sunday - April 25, 2004
Optional
DeKalb Market Tour. On Sunday morning there will be an optional
tour of the DeKalb Farmers Market. This mega-retail food center
brings together people and food products from around the world
and is a highlight for visitors to the city. The market directly
imports from growers and shippers worldwide and distributes to
both retail and wholesale markets. Exotic fruits and vegetables
are its specialty, but preserved food products from many world
traditions are available. There is also a cafeteria with hot and
cold food, featuring cuisines from around the world (and coffee,
breakfast pastries, and lunch items). The tour may be limited
in number; advance registration is advised. The cost is $5.00.
We will depart the hotel at 10:00 and return before noon. (http://www.dekalbfarmersmarket.com).
SEA Poster Session - 2004
| George Armelagos (Emory University) “What’s
For Dinner?: Evolutionary Dilemma” |
| Riche Barnes (Emory) “”I Put
Pureed Vegetables in her Ketchup:” Class and the Healthy
Kid Conundrum” |
| Valerie Elaine Black (UNC-Charlotte) “Consuming
Fair Trade in Charlotte, NC” |
| Manon Boulianne (Universite Laval) "Social
Innovations in Households and Community Organizations: Local
Exchange Trading Systems and Urban Agriculture in Quebec and
Mexico" |
| Juana Camacho (University of Georgia) "Slow
Granos and Fast Arroz: Indigenous Identity and Culinary Practices
in Cotacachi, Ecuador" |
| Catherine S. Dolan (Northwestern University)
"Throwback: Kenyan Women and the Politics of the Luxury
Vegetable" |
| John Eidson (Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology) “The Private Plot in Socialism and Postsocialism:
A Case Study from East Germany" |
| Juliana Essen (Independent Scholar) "'Food
is Number One in the World': Food Consumption and Natural
Farming in a Thai Buddhist Community" |
| Brooke Everett and Jeffrey Cohen (Penn
State U.) “Los Huertos Familiares: the role of the kitchen
garden in gender roles and socioeconomic livelihood, rural
Oaxaca, Mexico” |
| Georgia Fox (CSU Chico) “A Stimulating
Time: The Beginnings of Tobacco Use in the Seventeenth-Century
and its Implications for Anthropological Research” |
| Angela Gordon (Washington University) “A
Tale of Three Chenopods: Past, Present, and Future” |
| Kimberly Grimes (U. of Delaware) “Making
Connections over the Miles: Fair Trade Agro-Food Networks” |
| Julie Hogeland (American University) “Cooperatives:
Contesting the Divide” |
| Robert Hunt (Brandeis University) “Food
from Others: One-Way Transfers of Cooked Food” |
| Robert Marshall (Western Washington U.)
“Cooking Cooperatively at the Women’s Workers’
Collective Restaurant Shun” |
| Judith Marti (California State University-Northridge)
"Food, Economics and Status in Mexican Colonial Casta
Paintings" |
| Katherine Metzo (U. North Carolina –
Charlotte) “Bottling Baikal: World Heritage and Sustainability
in Siberia” |
| B. Lynne Milgram (Ontario College of Art
and Design) “The Craft of Sulman (Fresh Rice Cakes):
Making a Living and Contesting Identities in the Northern
Philippines” |
| Tricia Olsen (Winner of the 2003 Schneider
Undergraduate Prize)“Women in an Age of Globalization:
The Avon Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil” |
| Sutti Ortiz (Boston University) "The
Demands of European Consumers and the Earnings of Lemon Harvesters
in Northern Argentina" |
| Richard Owens (U. of Nebraska) “Vietnamese
Homegardens in Lincoln Nebraska: Foodways and Cultural Continuity” |
| Donna Perry (Gettysburg College) “Smugglers
and State Agents at the Senegal-Gambian Border: The Moral
Economy of Sugar and Peanuts” |
| Ronald Rich (Henry Ford Community College)
“Pigs for the Investors: Midwestern US Contract Animal
Production” |
| Leila Rodriguez and Jeffrey Cohen (Penn
State U.) “Generations and Motivations: Russian and
other ex-Soviet immigrants in Costa Rica” |
| Howard Rosing (SUNY Binghamton) “Mississippi
Rice in Dominican Barrios: Global Food Trade and the Structuring
of Food Insecurity in Santiago, Dominican Republic” |
| Daniel Sellen, Paul Barnett, Diana Hadzibegovic,
and Jeanne Mosely (Emory) “Causes of food insecurity
and child hunger among Sudanese refugee families recently
resettled in Atlanta, USA” |
| Mark Swanson and Mathew McCourt (U. of
Kentucky) “Modeling Foodsheds: Mapping Local Food Systems
with Geographic Information Systems” |
| Jennifer L Sweeney (CSU Northridge) “The
Social Role and Function of the Barbadian Rum Shop” |
| B. L. Turner (Emory), JD Kingston (Emory),
IT Milanich (U. of Florida), and GJ Armelagos (Emory) “Isotopic
Analysis of Life History and Social Stratification at Two
Wheeden Island Mound Sites in Florida.” |
| Penny Van Esterik (York U.) “From
Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization
in Lao PDR” |
| Moeko Wagatsuma (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
“Slow Food and Hong Kong” |
| E. Christian Wells (U. South Florida) and
Jolien Verdaasdonk (Honors College, University of South Florida)
“Economic Impacts of Work Feasts on Ancient and Modern
Agrarian Communities in Western Honduras” |
| Cynthia Werner (Texas A&M) “Good
Food, Bad Food: Public Perception of Food Safety and Radiation
in North America and Kazakhstan” |
Information for Poster Presenters:
Poster presentations should fit onto a
three panel, fold-out, self-supporting display board. The boards
will be provided by SEA when you arrive at the conference. The
display board is 36" high; the middle panel is 24" wide
and the two side panels are 12" wide each. The display unit
is corrugated cardboard so it will take pins. Presenters should
plan to bring
their own pins and/or tape, as needed, and to have their presentations
ready to be mounted on the display units. Each person will also
have some flat display space on the table on which their display
is mounted that can be used for a laptop, other objects, or handouts.
AAA
Guidelines for Effective Poster Presentations (From
the AAA website)
"Fear Not
the Poster" (From the AAA website)
Travel Information
Location
Join us for SEA 2004 in Decatur,
Georgia, one of the liveliest neighborhoods of Atlanta. Decatur
was the small Southern town that refused the Yankee railroad barons
and sent them five miles to the west, to build their own “Terminus.”
Now surrounded by the city of Atlanta, Decatur retains its small-town
feel (and its separate school system) within the larger metro
area. Dynamic in its embrace of “new urbanism,” Decatur’s
small restaurants, coffee shops, and stores draw families and
singles to a more pedestrian lifestyle. Decatur is the county
seat of DeKalb County, the most culturally diverse in Georgia.
Enjoy MARTA rapid transit direct from the airport to downtown
Decatur and walk one-and-a-half blocks around the old Courthouse
to our hotel. (For more information: http://www.Decatur-ga.com
and http://www.co.dekalb.ga.us).
Travel
Atlanta's Hartsfield
International Airport has direct flights from most major U.S.
cities.
Quick (except for late at night) and quiet is Atlanta’s
rapid transit system (MARTA).
Take any train from the airport to the Five Points Station and
transfer to the East Line; exit at the Decatur Station (E6). One
way costs $1.75 (purchase a farecard before boarding) and takes
about half an hour.
If you prefer, you can take a taxi to the hotel; it will cost
approximately $30 and take 25 minutes (outside of rush hour).
The Airport Metro Shuttle company (located in Ground Transportation)
also runs regular shuttle service to Decatur and charges $22 for
a one-way ticket.
Host Institution
Emory University is a medium-sized
private university known for combining strong undergraduate liberal
arts education with research-oriented graduate and professional
schools. Emory’s Department of Anthropology was founded
subsequent to the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State,
and the two institutions will host the Thursday evening reception.
Weather
Temperatures in late spring in Atlanta are usually pleasant with
highs in the mid-70's and lows in the mid-50s. Walking to nearby
shops and restaurants will be part of your visit, so bring comfortable
shoes and an umbrella. Although late April is past Atlanta’s
spectacular azalea and dogwood season, the rhododendrons may be
out.
Hotel
The meeting will be held at the Holiday
Inn Select Atlanta/Decatur Hotel, located one half block from
the Old Courthouse in heart of downtown Decatur. Reservations
can be made at 404-371-0204. To obtain the conference rate ($75
plus 14% tax) [CORRECTION: $79], identify yourself as part of
the Society for Economic Anthropology meeting. The special rate
will be available ONLY until March 24, 2004. Reservations made
after that date will be priced according to availability (no more
than $180 including tax).
Banquet
Saturday evening's optional banquet will be held at Eurasia, a
popular Decatur restaurant. Specializing in Asian fusion cuisine,
the restaurant will host SEA in its separate bar area and dinner
will include an array of appetizers, entre, and dessert for $35.00,
including tip. Reservations are limited, so be sure to sign up
when preregistering.
Optional DeKalb Market Tour
On Sunday morning there will be an optional tour of the DeKalb
Farmers Market. This mega-retail food center brings together
people and food products from around the world and is a highlight
for visitors to the city. The market directly imports from growers
and shippers worldwide and distributes to both retail and wholesale
markets. Exotic fruits and vegetables are its specialty, but preserved
food products from many world traditions are available. There
is also a cafeteria with hot and cold food, featuring cuisines
from around the world (and coffee, breakfast pastries, and lunch
items). The tour may be limited in number; advance registration
is advised. The cost is $5.00. We will depart the hotel at 9:30
a.m. and leave the market at 11:30. We will be back to the hotel
no later than noon to allow you to make afternoon flight connections.
If you have questions about local arrangements,
please email conference coordinators:
Sarah Lyon (slyon@learnlink.emory.edu)
or Peggy Barlett (pbarlett@emory.edu),
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 30322.
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