Apologies: I put up a 2-page version of this earlier. A slightly tweaked version of my paper in '... more Apologies: I put up a 2-page version of this earlier. A slightly tweaked version of my paper in 'Pure food' edited by P.Collinson & H.Macbeth, Berghahn, 2023
Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives, 2023
Slightly tweaked version of my chapter in 'Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives... more Slightly tweaked version of my chapter in 'Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives' co-edited by Paul Collinson & H.Macbeth, Berghahn
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1997
REVITALIZATION OR CONTINUITY IN EUROPEAN RITUAL? THE CASE OF SAN BESSU Jeremy MacClancy & Robert ... more REVITALIZATION OR CONTINUITY IN EUROPEAN RITUAL? THE CASE OF SAN BESSU Jeremy MacClancy & Robert Parkin Oxford Brookes University This article argues against Boissevain's thesis that many European rituals have recently under-gone revitalization after a ...
Response to 'Emptiness' project of Dace Dzenowska, Oxford U, and her team; latest developments in... more Response to 'Emptiness' project of Dace Dzenowska, Oxford U, and her team; latest developments in Spanish debate on rural de-population and re-population
Spanish-oriented comment on Dace Dzenowska's 'Emptiness' project, published as a blog on her 'Emp... more Spanish-oriented comment on Dace Dzenowska's 'Emptiness' project, published as a blog on her 'Emptiness' team website
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2019
Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and inter... more Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and interdisciplinary migration studies, usually justified by its extensive and increasing spread, globally. Yet, bar a few exceptions, the political behaviour of lifestyle migrants has been relatively neglected. I redress this imbalance by critically comparing two overlapping processes where British migrants to Spain act politically: elected councillors in town halls; and campaigning anti-Brexit activists. This pair is as comparable as it is contrastive. In theoretical terms, I argue that modern versions of practice theory are a useful mode for analysing municipal activity by foreign agents, while the Brexit process, because novel, fast-paced, and open-ended, is better understood via Isin's 'enactment of citizenship' approach. Both explanatory modes are powerful, have perspectival slants, and are best applied to different contexts and styles of contest: practice theorists research how people work with change; Isinians research how they produce it. The article also furthers the anthropology of citizenship by investigating a case where citizenship of a country is no longer a prerequisite for legitimate political activity in it.
The culture of radical Basque nationalism JEREMY MacCLANCY Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC... more The culture of radical Basque nationalism JEREMY MacCLANCY Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford. He has undertaken field research not only in Spain but in Melanesia and in a London auction ...
Jeremy MacClancy is professor in social anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is the auth... more Jeremy MacClancy is professor in social anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Consuming Culture, Popularizing Anthropokgy, and The Decline ofCarlism. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ...
Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within univers... more Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within universities. A critical re-examination of the work of Lord Raglan demonstrates that retaining an overly academic conception of anthropology impoverishes our understanding of its pasts and its futures. The last of the gentleman-scholars in British anthropology, Raglan was a prominent polemicist of the mid-century, who persistently kept anthropological approaches to contemporary concerns within the public eye. Though a postwar President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and praised by scholars in neighbouring disciplines, Raglan’s diffusionism was sharply criticized by standard-bearers of structural-functionalism. Adopting a broader perspective, Raglan can be viewed as both a sharp-eyed scholar and a successful public intellectual; re-assessment of his work and its effects leads to a re-consideration of the historiography of mid-century UK anthropology: particular theories, though denigrated by mainstream anthropologists, may continue to flourish in other disciplines or extra-academic arenas. (This is a slightly tweaked version of my paper in History and Anthropolpog7 2017).
Critical commentary on the activity, invisibility, and representation of women in Spain, yesterda... more Critical commentary on the activity, invisibility, and representation of women in Spain, yesterday and today
Apologies: I put up a 2-page version of this earlier. A slightly tweaked version of my paper in '... more Apologies: I put up a 2-page version of this earlier. A slightly tweaked version of my paper in 'Pure food' edited by P.Collinson & H.Macbeth, Berghahn, 2023
Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives, 2023
Slightly tweaked version of my chapter in 'Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives... more Slightly tweaked version of my chapter in 'Pure food: theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives' co-edited by Paul Collinson & H.Macbeth, Berghahn
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1997
REVITALIZATION OR CONTINUITY IN EUROPEAN RITUAL? THE CASE OF SAN BESSU Jeremy MacClancy & Robert ... more REVITALIZATION OR CONTINUITY IN EUROPEAN RITUAL? THE CASE OF SAN BESSU Jeremy MacClancy & Robert Parkin Oxford Brookes University This article argues against Boissevain's thesis that many European rituals have recently under-gone revitalization after a ...
Response to 'Emptiness' project of Dace Dzenowska, Oxford U, and her team; latest developments in... more Response to 'Emptiness' project of Dace Dzenowska, Oxford U, and her team; latest developments in Spanish debate on rural de-population and re-population
Spanish-oriented comment on Dace Dzenowska's 'Emptiness' project, published as a blog on her 'Emp... more Spanish-oriented comment on Dace Dzenowska's 'Emptiness' project, published as a blog on her 'Emptiness' team website
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2019
Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and inter... more Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and interdisciplinary migration studies, usually justified by its extensive and increasing spread, globally. Yet, bar a few exceptions, the political behaviour of lifestyle migrants has been relatively neglected. I redress this imbalance by critically comparing two overlapping processes where British migrants to Spain act politically: elected councillors in town halls; and campaigning anti-Brexit activists. This pair is as comparable as it is contrastive. In theoretical terms, I argue that modern versions of practice theory are a useful mode for analysing municipal activity by foreign agents, while the Brexit process, because novel, fast-paced, and open-ended, is better understood via Isin's 'enactment of citizenship' approach. Both explanatory modes are powerful, have perspectival slants, and are best applied to different contexts and styles of contest: practice theorists research how people work with change; Isinians research how they produce it. The article also furthers the anthropology of citizenship by investigating a case where citizenship of a country is no longer a prerequisite for legitimate political activity in it.
The culture of radical Basque nationalism JEREMY MacCLANCY Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC... more The culture of radical Basque nationalism JEREMY MacCLANCY Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford. He has undertaken field research not only in Spain but in Melanesia and in a London auction ...
Jeremy MacClancy is professor in social anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is the auth... more Jeremy MacClancy is professor in social anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Consuming Culture, Popularizing Anthropokgy, and The Decline ofCarlism. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ...
Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within univers... more Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within universities. A critical re-examination of the work of Lord Raglan demonstrates that retaining an overly academic conception of anthropology impoverishes our understanding of its pasts and its futures. The last of the gentleman-scholars in British anthropology, Raglan was a prominent polemicist of the mid-century, who persistently kept anthropological approaches to contemporary concerns within the public eye. Though a postwar President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and praised by scholars in neighbouring disciplines, Raglan’s diffusionism was sharply criticized by standard-bearers of structural-functionalism. Adopting a broader perspective, Raglan can be viewed as both a sharp-eyed scholar and a successful public intellectual; re-assessment of his work and its effects leads to a re-consideration of the historiography of mid-century UK anthropology: particular theories, though denigrated by mainstream anthropologists, may continue to flourish in other disciplines or extra-academic arenas. (This is a slightly tweaked version of my paper in History and Anthropolpog7 2017).
Critical commentary on the activity, invisibility, and representation of women in Spain, yesterda... more Critical commentary on the activity, invisibility, and representation of women in Spain, yesterday and today
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