We can help communities makeinformed food choices.
this reminds me of the phrase, "it takes a village".
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native people tomaintain their old way of eating, as far as it’s possible today
This is the case in my culture, and I like that this travels through generations because it ties us back to our ancestors as a connection we still have with them that has been here through the passage of time. I can identify because my ancestors are specifically ancestors.
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Dieting is the price humans pay for too littleexercise and too much mass-produced food.
Today, this is still a fact and the case.There is even more obesity today now more than ever and the pandemic just made it worse. I like the way they phrased it because it is very factual and I never seen it this way.
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Because if we don’t takecare of our food, it won’t be there for us in the future. And ifwe lose our foods, we lose who we are.”
value food a lot and it means their survival ultimately.
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withwesternization, at least on the North American continent,comes processed foods and cheap carbohydrates
I have always thought it is so interesting how processed foods are cheaper than organic or natural foods because it shows how the value of natural foods and meats are higher than processed or chemical foods since they come from the very earth and environment around you or imported. People want the full experience and all the benefits. So when foods are processed it takes it's essence away and basically it's value, authenticity, or realness. It is not as valuable anymore.
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A normal meat diet is not a high-protein diet,” hepronounced. “We were really getting three-quarters of ourcalories from fat.”
This shows their views on food consumption and their meanings on what is healthy and what is not. What is expected to be consumed. It is not about like food here but like the conceptualization of survival and the culture regarding this reading.
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there appears to be a limiton how much protein the human liver can safely cope with:To o m u c h o ve r w h e l m s t h e l i ve r ’s w a s t e - d i s p o s a l s y s t e m ,leading to protein poisoning — nausea, diarrhea, wasting,and death.
Seem to be very educated and familiar with the nutrition, what does them harm or good, and the digestive system when it comes to the intake of different meats or foods.
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These foods hardly make up the “balanced” diet most of usgrew up with, and they look nothing like the mix of grains,fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy those of us livingfarther south are accustomed to seeing in conventional foodpyramid diagrams.
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The closer people live to towns and the more accessthey have to stores and cash-paying jobs, the more likelythey are to have westernized their eating.
They were aware of the adaptation that people pick up when they live more in the city/towns than in the village for example. This was an analytical observation. They narrated this cultural observation.
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The main nutritionalchallenge was avoiding starvation in late winter if primarymeat sources became too scarce or lean
For some cultures, being underfed may look like being skinny, and being chubbier for instance may mean you are healthy and being well-fed, which in another culture may mean you're a little overweight. This says a lot about what the meaning of nutrition means in this culture.
A struggle here was getting meat in the winter because it would not be in the same under winter conditions or as assessable it sounds like
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Coastal people exploited the sea
When they say "exploited" did they mean because of all of the fished food, or did they state this for other reasons?
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The closer people live to towns and the more accessthey have to stores and cash-paying jobs, the more likelythey are to have westernized their eating.
They were aware of the adaptation that people pick up when they live more in the city/towns than in the village for example. This was an analytical observation. They narrated this cultural observation.
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A central question for this book, then, becomes: why do Wall Street investment banks continually fail to achieve their raison d’étre?
great analysis question
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globalizing
I find it crazy the role globalization plays in their overall work, especially now that I am learning so much about it and the form in which they conceptualize it.
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bots oe meen ethnographically the globalization of capital e values and strategies of financial actors is to both recog eir power and demonstrate their locality an tr 87 On tha nana handA T L Y awe eb. wt al or that market mechanisms practices, according to virtual, utopian capitalist fanta c ideals are neither wholly performed and instantiated into reality lexity.” Analyzing what Wall oe tha nomi nav virtual substitutions for “real life comp d instabilit : y
I believe I enjoyed this aspect of their research/work the most.
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I document how Wall Street, through strategic alignments with long-stand- ing neoclassical desires entrenched in American cultural norms, evokes nostalgia to construct a “restoration” narrative central to its “rightful” succession. In a simil
Does it bring them some nostalgia because of their techniques in their cultural norms? or because of their efficiency inside of the socioeconomic aspect of their culture?
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Given that these theories an models are “our culture’s most authoritative forms of knowledge of nen cial markets,” it is crucial to interrogate how they perform and what t “ actually do in the world (MacKenzie 2006, 27 5).
Definitely, and their way of doing things in the organizations.
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o address the inconsistencies, failures, and ramifications of Wall Street investment banks’ approach to shareholder value while paying enon to its explanatory power necessitates a multiprong approach that econ ters the models, histories, and discourses of Wall Street. Fi
I think it is important they share the discrepancies they find in Wall street as well because it helps one reflect as an anthropologist even though more questions may come up, it may very well clear up some confusion in other aspects and think whether their approach was effective or not.
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lthough I was able to incorporate substantial participant observation during fieldwork, the majority occurred during “prefieldwork” since I did not (nor was it my goal to) obtain investment banks’ official permission to “hang out” within their workplaces.
I feel like this is a good thing because this means a lot was already taking place before the actual fieldwork. That means there was a lot to grasp in this environment.
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nstead, he writes, the ethnography of the powerful needs to consist of “interacting with informants across a number of dispersed sites, not just in local communities, and sometimes in virtual form; and it means collecting data eclectically from a disparate array of sources in many different ways [such as] .. . formal interviews... extensive reading of newspapers and official docum
this is definitely emphasized a lot when one is going to school for anthropology, to not stay and reside only in local communities but to interact as much as possible with the outer part of the environment. I remember reading that in the textbook.
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A year after my downsizing,?? 1 undertook seventeen months ae work, from February 1998 to June 1999, among differently Pee ‘on investment bankers working at most major Wall Street financia ns tions. I drew on university alumni connections and a web of contacts tha had made during my prefieldwork job, which allowed me access to . nun ber of investment banks as well as other fieldwork sites, fom eas * outplacement agencies, conferences to panel ae I “ x vi a ticipant observation and over one hundred interviews. a re a on my alumni contacts to create a network of informants wit jou ae a job, my toolkit would have been mainly limited to eee ed . relied primarily on my job and contacts at BT, | would wT earns ne language and mores of finance, but my ethnography wo ann pa contained within the walls of one investment bank and cou n have addressed Wall Street as a broad occupational community. Since . = B08 ‘ of my research was to analyze key financial agents mang el e an their effects on socioeconomic inequality,
I think the approach that they took was very interesting and it helps that this week we have been overviewing concepts such as fieldwork and participant observation, and now seeing it implemented into an organization with this anthropologist helps me as a student better understand how they take route on this methodology
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I examine in particular the relationship between the values and actions of investment banks, the corresponding restructuring of U.S. corporations, and the construction of markets, specifically financial market booms and busts. I ask how exactly Wall Street investment bankers and banks, at the level of the everyday, helped to culturally produce a financially dominant, though highly unsta-
The author definetely wants to examine the atmosphere and how it runs regarding the workers and the system's values, ideas and beliefs vs their behavior and what is taking place during this time and setting, when we are speaking about the globalization of the United States capitalism.
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These questions propelled me to conduct fieldwork on Wall Street to investigate what role the stock market and investment banks played in these radical socioeconomic shifts.
as a student, when the author asks these intellectual questions, it allows for an opportunity for us to get some insight of the inside of the anthropologist mind such as thoughts and interests or even motives. It also allows us to be more open-minded and see how it is the anthropologist comes to make their approach.
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My central purpose in this ethnography is to analyze both Wall Street’s role in the reshaping of corporate America and its corresponding effects on market formations, and how Wall Street helped to instantiate these changes.®
I appreciate the author emphasizing the purpose of their work after providing much background information on wall street and what was taking place. It serves as a overview for the reader from the anthropologist's point of view
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The thought that the Bushmen were alive and well in the Kalahari was strangely comforting.
I felt this way too when reading this because even in their culture, it sounds like there is more civility and essence from the events taking place today in our American culture in America. I understand what they mean by comforting.
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to kill an ani- mal and share the meat with people is really no more than the Bushmen do for each other every day and with far less fanfare.
It will not make anyone superior to anyone because they will not allow that and it also doesn't make anyone better than anyone. However, they have a distinct way of expressing admiration for doing so than how the anthropologist is accustomed to being thanked, when they are giving or doing a nice gesture as a form to say thank you for your cooperation.
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We refuse one who boasts, for someday his pride will make him kill somebody.
The Bushmen do not praise them because then it would be in a way showing a lot of respect which can later get confused for power. There is always a possibility to them that that power may be used in a bad way as a threat to them. It makes a lot of sense. I also found this to be very deep.
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“because I know he has killed something big. “In the morning we make up a p
It seems like their custom/way of communicating is the opposite of what they literally mean, from a different lens.
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Ts this the way outsiders are treated?” I asked. “No, it is their custom; they talk that way to each other too. Go and ask them.”
I would say here, he is assimilating to the Bushmen's culture and taking it all in/processing. Earlier they were also comparing and contrasting the cultural values of Christmas from their home.
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his it was essential not to provide them with food, share my own food, or inter- fere in any way with their food-gathering activities.
The reason why the anthropologist was viewed and labeled a "miser". Could his not doing anything rather than doing at this moment highlight a moment of the IKing Bushmen's cultural values?
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My approach, while paying off in terms of data, left me open to frequent ac- cusations of stinginess and hardheartedness. By their lights, I was a miser.
The anthropologist's approach was one that was ironically opposite of what he would do in his culture, but not because he wanted to, but rather to elicit a reaction from the IKung Bushmen. Taking this approach allowed them to evoke an impression to the anthropologist. In short, they were adapting to another culture in their fieldwork by taking this approach, and not interfering with food gathering activities to see what would happen.
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