What exactly is a culinary ethnography?

Food is many things, to many people. What exactly that thing is, says a lot about that group of people as a whole. What we eat is a huge part of who we are, who we’ve been, and what we experience as we encounter the new. In my 90 years, I have done my best to experience first hand the many, many ways that each denizen of the Forgotten Realms decides to break bread.

This is by no means a rule book, as if I am some sort of dictator of what is, and isn’t proper for a member of a race to do in the kitchen. Rather, it is a collection of observances in regards to commonalities and trends among members of the same race. While my own experience is obviously limited, and there are plenty of individuals I have yet to dine with and learn about, I would like to offer up what I have learned so far.

-Adelbert Boffin, Halfling Culinarian

First things first, as a disclaimer of all Culinary Ethnography entries, let’s set some caveats. Who are Elves? Am I including Half-Elves? Drow? All those of Elven lineage? All those of Elven parentage back to the Fae themselves? While I would like to eventually include more varied looks at the similarities and differences between all of these groups, for the purposes of this analysis, I will be looking at those Elves that live in, or near the Faewild in particular. As always, this is a look at some of the major trends I have seen occur. It is not a rulebook that one must follow to be a “proper Elf” in the kitchen. Food is as much culture as it is history, geography, necessity, community, and personal freedom. With that out of the way, let’s give this culture a respectful look.

Living off the Land

To truly understand the cuisine of the Elves, it is important to first understand where their sustenance is derived from. While this maxim is true of all races, it holds even greater weight with Elves. Food culture is derived from the culmination of necessity and environment and the environment that most Elves live in is one of true bounty, allowing for a more “particular” palate. After all, it is much easier to only eat things that taste good, when starvation is not on the line. Not many races can claim the same abundance, leading to a rather unique culinary culture.

The first subject of note is that Elves do not take part in animal husbandry. From Dwarves, to Humans, to Orcs, you can see some sort of animal that is a mainstay in their diet in some form or another. As always, this is co

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I need to take pictures of people interacting/using the product in public and just observe how this interaction goes. Using these observations I need to come up with some key customer needs.

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Just as the title states, I'm looking for any book-length nonfiction works, whether they be conventional books or essay collections or hybrid forms, that somehow integrate critical theory/philosophy texts/theories into the larger narrative(s). I'm in an MFA program myself, and my thesis project is going towards a certain direction that investigates my experiences growing up poor in rural Missouri, particularly from a Marxist and Gothic Marxist perspective. What I've been contemplating a lot lately, however, is how to best assemble this personal, nonfiction diegesis with elements that come from a more theoretical exegesis. How do I introduce theory and theoretical formulations without coming across as overly academic or explicative? How, also, do I introduce concepts that don't otherwise deflate my own prose? I'm also been thinking a lot about formal experimentations. But, I'm really lacking good examples! I've read works like Thalia Field's collection Bird Lovers, Backyard, Ann Boyer's The Undying, and Lauren Slater's Lying -- all of which do interesting things formally and narratively with theory and history, specifically psychology and biology. Please leave any recommendations that you think might help! Whether they be more subtle and conventional nonfiction narratives buttressed by theory, or more weird, heady works that play with form, anything is much appreciated!

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I'm an undergrad student in search of people to interview for a paper I'm working on involving new media and human communication. I'm compiling an ethnography that explores the brony community as well as how fans relate and identify with g4 and g5. Basically, what the community and franchise as a whole has done for them.

If anyone is interested, the interview would be held on discord (through voice chat) and would only be about 10 to 12 simple questions.

Please DM me if you would like to take part :)

Where can I start looking for Donna Haraway's perspective on writing Ethnographies (or doing fieldwork)? Context: I'm currently struggeling (again) with Questions of Representation, Othering etc. in Anthropolgy and since Haraway seams to be spearheading some current theoretical debates, I wonder about here position concerning Ethnographies.

Madison (2005) states that critical ethnographers have an “ethical responsibility to address unfairness and injustice within a particular lived domain” and “moves beneath surface appearances, disrupts the status quo, and unsettles both neutrality and taken-for-granted assumptions by bringing to light underlying and obscure operations of power and control”

Often I get so confused as to how different sociology and anthro is from each other. Sociology seems to be more in touch with some more mathematical modeling but then again some nich anthropology is too.

I came to here sociologists also conduct ethnography but is it the same in anthro? Im so lost as to whats the difference and what are the goals

Hi guys!

You may remember me from a couple weeks back when I was looking for members of the Brony community to interview for an ethnography. I'm happy to say that I received an abundance of interest in that and I want to thank everyone who was was willing to contribute!

I am now conducting a survey of the community in order to ensure I understand the thoughts of the fanbase as a whole. If interested, please click the link below and answer the questions! The survey is fairly short (12 questions.)

[THE LINK HAS BEEN FIXED :) ]

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Again, thank you so much everyone! I greatly appreciate your help and consideration!

During the 25 years since the publication of Writing Culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography, a great deal of discussion has accompanied it.

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The class is Chicano ethnography and I live in Los Angeles so I was thinking of writing a paper on gentrification in los angeles and specifically about people's views on gentrification in this one specific neighbourhood called panorama city. It is an area that is the highest density in all of Los Angeles county and half the people there are immigrants. There is a lot of crime and cheap houses/rent(cheap for LA anyway). So what I'm thinking about is what is the state of this area currently and how are people feeling about the fact that it could be one of the next areas to be gentrified. They are building all these new starbucks and restaurants in the area and new apartment buildings so it is on it's way to gentrification. i think it is important to study the culture of areas that are not yet gentrified so we can hear these people's voices and respect what they need and want to. Is this a good idea? i'm really trying here and this is something that genuinely interests me but I have barely any resources or time. There is no literature on this specific area but I could go observe and maybe hand out a google form and have people answer some questions and compare my results to lit that is done on gentrification anyway. Its a stretch that they will but maybe they want their voices to be heard you know? the focus in this class is on chicano culture through an ethnographic perspective. it seems like pretty much everything has been done already so this is the idea I had. THANK YOU

You know, like flaming your friends. Making fun of eachother. Any work on the evolutionary or cultural meaning of this?

Dear Friends, I need a reliable and authentic book on Ethnography. Can anyone please recommend please? Name/ title with resources, weblinks would be of great help. With gratitude in advance.

What is a culinary ethnography?

In my travels, I have interacted with many cultures, and have documented my findings. This is by no means a rule book, as if I am some sort of dictator of what is, and isn’t proper for a member of a race to do in the kitchen. Rather, it is a collection of observances in regards to commonalities and trends among members of the same Race. While my own experience is obviously limited, and there are plenty of individuals I have yet to dine with and learn about, I would like to offer up what I have learned in my travels.

-Adelbert Boffin, Halfling Culinarian

Dwarves

Many races use food for celebration; and what race more so than the Dwarves? Anyone who has been in a bustling tavern in a cosmopolitan city has probably seen some Dwarven revelers drinking friend and foe alike under the table. A penchant for alcohol, however, is not all that this folk has. Let us examine their diet as a whole.

Dwarven foodstuff is primarily separated into two groups: “that from above” and “that from below”. “That from above” includes everything grown above ground or outside of the mountain or hill that the Dwarves call home. These include most grazing animals and any fruits, vegetables, or grains that the Dwarves might cultivate. “That from below,” meanwhile, includes all treats cultivated below the earth’s surface. These include hardier root vegetables, certain lichens and moss, many types of fungus, and a variety of subterranean creatures that some Dwarven clans cultivate, such as spiders or lizards. We will begin with an in-depth look at the above before moving onto the below.

That from above:

While adventurers often picture Dwarves as stalwart denizens of the mountain that never leave the crags and spires they call home, many Dwarven clans spend a fair amount of time in the sunlight. This time is often spent allowing livestock to graze among whatever greenery is available on the hills and mountain sides. Cattle, goats, and sheep are very commonly seen as grazing animals. However, unlike other races that rely on grazing animals, these animals never venture too far from home. Most are let out in the mornings and corralled back inside by night fall. Additionally, instead of solely relying on grazing, some clans also raise pen animals on feed. These include the aforementioned cattle, goats, and sheep, along with pigs and fowl.

Dwarves also use their stronghold fields for agriculture, primarily vegetables and grains. Roots of

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could guide me on how anthropology differs from ethnography? I'm considering majoring in anthro, after studying journalism, and i wanna know how other people think anthro differs from ethno and even historical archival work or journalistic work. Any guidance is appreciated!

I'm planning on writing my undergrad theses on online communities and was wondering if you guys could give me some directions.

Hello, I'm currently doing a research project on gender and horror films but I need to cite an ethnography and I'm struggling to find any. Does anyone know any?

Hello! Im a Korean student majoring in history and taking some cultural anthropology classes. I've been tasked to write a short ethnography (around 15-20 pages)as a part of the final project for the one of my anthropology lectures. and I've been planning write a ethnography about a internet community as it was first of all interesting and new, and I felt like it was easier to interview and meet the users of the internet community than other communities. And reddit was the internet communities that I chose to write about as I had some experience with the community (not fully though only academically) and more well known in Korea than other internet communities.

As I am not so familiar with both ethnography and reddit, I wanted to ask people who knows more about the subject than me. My question is whether writing about the whole community is too broad and should concentrate on one subreddit(or subreddit is too narrow to write about)? and besides researches on basic systems of reddit (such as karma,subreddits,upvotes) is there other topics that I am unaware that I should write about. And any tips for a student who is writing his first ethnography about an internet community?

Thank you for reading all the bad English.

Hi everyone. As the title states, I’m an anthropology student. I’m in the data-gathering stage of research on the state of jazz in the 21st century, specifically in the context of musician-audience relationships and synergy.

Please send me a DM if you are interested and I can send more information.

Additionally, I’m struggling to get in touch with women in jazz. If you know a woman involved in jazz, please feel free to share this post.

I am hoping to do an analysis of H-2A workers in the US and the abuses they face. I want to particularly highlight, however, the variability of these experiences based on many factors including those mentioned above. I've been struggling to find any papers on these subjects, however (with the exception of the plethora of evidence centering around the Mexican-American experience and one paper on the vulnerability of H-2A workers from Thailand).

If these papers are available, I would really appreciate anyone's input here. Thanks!

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