‘From Grain to Glass’: The Authenticity of Oxford Physic Gin
Nestled amongst the grandiose of Oxford architecture lies The Turl, as it is often referred to colloquially. Towards the south end of the street sit an abundance of ...
Human Chronotopes in Slow Food
In talking about “chronotopes,” which is a term borrowed from Mikhail Bakhtin (1981), Cavanaugh and Singh (2014) refer to “links created across events that occur ...
The (Homeland) Tourist Icon
Week 4: Authenticity, Place and Product In “Primitivist tourism and anthropological research: awkward relation”, Rupert Stasch (2019, p. 530) analyzes the categories ...
Treacherous Objects
Anticipating this week on tourism/authenticity, I thought people might be interested in the Museum of Art Fakes ( https://www.faelschermuseum.com ) - although ...
Reading Suggestion
Hi, Came across this author this week, and thought some of his notes on spiritual economies and the equation of religious devotion and professional (corporate) drive in ...
Uncomfortable Oxford
For our next seminar on Authenticity, Place and Tourism, it might be interesting to do one of the Oxford tours. Here is a link for the Uncomfortable Oxford Tour that ...
BBC Radio 4 on Weber’s Protestant Ethic
Hey y'all! This video is just a quick run down of Weber's Protestant Ethic + Spirit of Capitalism - I found it very helpful as a way to concisely explain the argument of ...
Candles and transduction
The Christian use of votive candles offers a good example of transduction, as it transforms the substance of prayer across semiotic modalities from inner thought to ...
A Holy Communion: Keane, Transduction and the Eucharist
Many people are drawn to the Church because they seek something greater: a more profound reality than what they experience on a day to day basis. This “something ...
Does the Buddha Drink Bubble Tea?
This week’s topic makes me think of a bubble tea shop in my hometown Nanjing. Bubble tea, first introduced in Taiwan in the 1980s, has become one of the most popular ...
The Threat of Insta-Preachers
Week 3: Religion and Commerce The “rise of rock star clerics” on Indonesian social media is a subject of ongoing debate (Carolina 2019). In recent years, Indonesian ...
Infrastructure and Logistics Workshop in Week 5
Hi Oim-ers, Below is the programme for the OiM workshop in week 5. I think that it will be a very exciting event where we can all engage with the latest research in ...
The (Re)Materialisation of Money in Iran
Ferdowsi Avenue runs like a vein through the centre of Tehran, pulsating with street-side money exchangers who sit perched next to their propped open briefcases ...
Pink Pound and Dorothy Dollar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/142998.stm Pink Pound in Uk / Dorothy Dollar in USA are names given to campaigns that commercially target LGBTQ communities as ...
“Jews, Money. Myth” Exhibit
I was recently looking online for a London-based exhibit on money to compare to the money exhibit in the Ashmolean museum. I was surprised to find my google results ...
Banned Propaganda Circulating on Banknotes
https://www.ft.com/content/dc78cc2b-60e7-3bb3-856a-66b9d8613911 http://www.communitycurrency.org/Donate.html When I was going through the money exhibition at the ...
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism.
Below is the excerpt I had in mind in class last week, on gay men's condom use as an act of resistance. It is from the introduction to Tiantian Zheng's "Ethnographies of ...
Molly’s Game
The same year that Joshua Walker (2017) wrote “Torn dollars and war-wounded francs: Money fetishism in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” the movie, Molly’s Game ...