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2. Shifting matter and meanings in japanese seafood assemblages: fish as functional food cyborgs and emblematic cultural commodities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ganseforth, Sonja (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-28
- Published:
- United States: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12561
- Journal Title:
- Green Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- Online only
- Notes:
- 17pgs, Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat from anthropogenic environmental change to their use as food for human consumption and their role in the livelihoods of fishers and coastal communities. The analysis finds a growing polarisation in the Japanese seafood sector as the cyborg fish of highly-processed food products and globally traded commodities inundate markets and dinner plates, while locally caught animals turn from basic foodstuff into folklorist stars of a vanishing rurality, a symbol of authenticity and national identity advertised as cultural commodities in romanticising campaigns to revitalise rural areas.
3. Farm reporting in a new age of mythology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Palmer, Lane (author / Editor, Farm Journal magazine)
- Format:
- Speech
- Publication Date:
- 1978-03-15
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 27 Document Number: B02747
- Notes:
- Mimeographed. Presented at Missouri Agricultural Communication Conference, Columbia, Missouri, March 15, 1978. 11 pages.