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- Convenors:
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Frédéric Duhart
(Mondragon University )
F. Xavier Medina (Universitat Obsrta de Catalunya (UOC))
- Stream:
- Living landscapes: Food and Water Flows/Paysages vivants: Flots d'aliments et d'eau
- Location:
- DMS 1120
- Start time:
- 2 May, 2017 at
Time zone: America/New_York
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
The Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition proposes consideration of the theme Foodways in motion. We invite to study the producer/consumer movements and the individual initiatives linked with the quest for food sovereignty and their impact on the dynamics of the eating habits.
Long Abstract:
The Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition proposes consideration of the theme Foodways in motion: food sovereignty, producer movements and living traditions. We believe this topic provides stimulating opportunities to think about an exciting dimension of our changing world: the rise of movements and the burgeoning number of individual actions linked with the quest for a real "food sovereignty" in the South as in the North. Of course, this last concept is suggestive of La via campesina. We can read it as an invitation to study the wants, the struggles and the successes/failures of the peasant movements around world. More or less formal, these communities often involve the body in the activism: peasant marches, land occupations, hunger strikes. Peasant movements stricto sensu are not the only type of communities in taking action to defend local forms of agriculture and food supply. A growing number of producers develop collective strategies to protect local foods, and by this way, to create or to maintain economic activity in their native area. Others groups take up the challenge of alternative agriculture or alternative relationships with the consumers. There are also individual initiatives towards certain idea of the food sovereignty, such as chefs who decide to change the world from their kitchens. The culinary profession can appear to be strategic because its intermediary position between producers and consumers. Nevertheless, consumers also develop their own strategies to maintain their eating traditions or to break with them, before inventing new ones: tradition is alive.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Frédéric Duhart (Mondragon University )
Paper short abstract:
Duck foie gras was born in Southwest France (18th century). In the 1990s, local producers decided to obtain a PGI to protect their tradition. I consider the ways they used to take into account the existence of quite different groups of interests: small farmers, industrials, subregion defenders, etc.
Paper long abstract:
The world famous duck foie gras was born in Southwest France during the eighteenth century. Since that time, this region is still to be the worldwide leader in force-fed duck production. At the end of the twentieth century, the foie gras duck sector was quite significant in the regional agricultural economy. Consequently, increased competition from new production areas quickly became a major concern for the main actors of this sector. In the 1990s, they decided to organise themselves to protect their traditional products, especially avoiding the fraudulent use of references to the name of their region and of its prestigious subregions: Perigord, Landes, Gers, etc. They considered the best solution to their problem was the obtention of a Protected Geographic Indication - a recently created legal instrument. In 2010, their wish came true.
The construction process of the PGI "Canard à foie gras du Sud-Ouest" was largely an effort to find sustainable and consensual solutions to problems that could appear insolvable at first glance, because the existence of interests that were different and apparently extremely divergent. The production and the processing of force-fed ducks were, at the same time, in the hands of small independent farmers-canners and of giant integrated groups. Part of the subregions had a quite strong identity and traditionally competed with the other ones. Various ways of breeding or processing the ducks were in use, etc. The promotors of the PGI tried to find appropriate responses, taking into account as much as possible the interests of each group.
Amanjot Singh (Panjab University Chandigarh)
Paper short abstract:
the alcoholic beverages have a very significant role in occasions, social gatherings, fair and festivals and rituals of kinnura tribe of Himachal Pradesh India. Using anthropology in these context reveals significant meaning and heritage value of indigenous beverages of the tribe.
Paper long abstract:
Tribes have indigenous alcoholic beverages and employ it in certain social and ritual context. Use of alcoholic beverages itself varies considerably from culture to culture. Using anthropology in these context reveals significant meaning and heritage value of the tribe. The alcoholic beverages are socially accepted and sectioned in Kinnura tribe of Himachal Pradesh. Present study document various beverages of the valley, procedure of making an alcoholic beverage, and its significant role in ritual practices, social bonding, fair and festivals and as a mode of adaptation to cold stress. A study was conducted in two villages of Sangla valley of Kinnuar district of Himachal Pradesh in September 2012. Qualitative Study was conducted with in-depth interview method and 26 individuals were interviewed with research scheduled. The research area was revisited in October 2014 and august 2015, and 15 individuals were interviewed with the same research schedule to check the change in trends among indigenous beverages. The method of preparation of indigenous alcoholic beverages are same but the material used for the procedure was changed with time. The alcoholic beverages are very important part of various occasions, social gatherings, fair and festivals and rituals. The beverages have medicinal value and keep them warm in cold climate.
Laura Beatriz Teresa Collin Harguindeguy (El Colegio de Tlaxcala)
Paper short abstract:
Milpa system is being claimed and studied, especially by agronomists and biologists as a production system. In this paper, it is analyzed as a culture
Paper long abstract:
Milpa system is being claimed and studied, especially by agronomists and biologists as a production system. In this paper, it is analyzed as a culture that implies certain social relations, a kind of relation with nature, but especially a productive logic, different from capitalism. It is proposed that reproductive logic (Hinkelammert and Mora 2009) or extended social reproduction logic (Coraggio 2009) can set up a productive model that would coincide with the alterglobalists searches and the proposals of theories like post-development (Escobar 2005) degrowth (Latouche 2008) and political ecology (Martinez-Alier 2014). It also implies an opposite rationality, or at least different from Cartesian thought which prefers diversity and interdependence, to specialization and concentration.