A Meneley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13250 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Meneley |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Meneley |
| FIRMA | MENELEY A |
| AFILIACIONES | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5627-6124 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 303 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Look but Don't Touch
Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili's Park of Giant Trees, on Georgia's Black Sea coast, has received more media attention for the process of its construction rather than the product. The intimate plant spectacle is mostly for Bidzina himself, the personal ‘hobby’ of a billionaire oligarch who can afford to uproot and transport the giant trees at great expense. This park appears as a spectacle of plant violence to citizens and environmental act…
Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities
Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many "techniques of the body," this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life. I reflect on how perceptions of danger can be related at different historical moments: to inclement environmental conditions; to no…
Making Home with Olive Oil
Feeding Iran
Reviewed by: Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic by Rose Wellman Anne Meneley Wellman, Rose. Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 263 pp. Nuclear weapons, contested treaties, and fraught international relations are at the forefront of what Western audiences hear about Iran these days. In Feeding Iran, Rose Wellman offers us something qu…
Hope in the ruins
As space in the West Bank is increasingly threatened, Palestinians are turning to agro-activism to reclaim it. Alongside the established olive activism, there has been a flourishing of generative projects by which my interlocutors attempt to reclaim their space from the environmental damages of the ongoing occupation. I situate these regenerative practices in anthropological discourses about imperial ruins and the blasted landscapes of capitalist…
Eating Wild
This article examines the strategic use of an event of hospitality celebrating the Wild Foods of Palestine as part of a form of fertile activism. Artist Mirna Bamieh presented the dinner as a "live art" event where the positive power of food and Palestinian culinary distinction was highlighted more than victimhood. In a moment of pleasurable pedagogy, the guests learned about the preservation of knowledge about foraging precious wild plants and t…
The olive and imaginaries of the Mediterranean
This paper explores how the olive tree and olive oil continue to seep into imaginaries of the Mediterranean. The olive tree, long lived and durable, requires human intervention to be productive: it is emblematic of the Mediterranean region and the longstanding human habitation of it. Long central to the religious imaginaries and practices of the monotheistic tradition and those which preceded it, olive oil has emerged, in recent decades, as the s…
Walk This Way
This essay examines how meanings and practices of walking, particularly quantified walking, change according to place. Drawing together my own experience with a wearable computing device called a Fitbit at home and in my field site, East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank of Palestine, I compare quantified walking and its focus on the self with other forms of walking that highlight place. I examine the relationship between self-monitoring and o…
Consumerism
The article investigates how consumerism is perceived as an unremarkable part of quotidian existence, as a patriotic duty at various moments, as an indicator of social class, and as a means of semiotic self-fashioning. In consumerism, the tension between the sumptuary restraint on conspicuous consumption, which characterized the early Protestant ethic, and the dependence of capitalism itself on boundless commodity circulation, emerges again and a…
Discourses of Distinction in Contemporary Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Production
This article shows how Palestinian producers, faced with an “existential threat” to their own physical locality, seek to re-qualify their goods such as olive oil not only as elite goods based on the discourse of distinction of taste, but also in politically-inflected global discourses of distinction that attend to how the product is sourced, produced, and exchanged. Palestinian entrepreneurs and NGO-sponsored agricultural professionals are making…
The Accidental Pilgrims
This article focuses on the way in which olive-picking volunteers in Palestine become transformed into 'accidental pilgrims', and unconventional ones at that, by virtue of their participation in the olive harvest. Undergoing the difficulties of mobility that constrain the Palestinians and witnessing holy sites through the eyes and narratives of Palestinian guides, they are exposed to an alternative knowledge and affect regarding the Holy Land, un…
Blood, Sweat and Tears in a Bottle of Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
This paper examines the trajectory of fairtrade extra-virgin olive oil from its troubled production in Palestine, to its convoluted and difficult circulation in the West Bank and out of Israel, to ethical consumers abroad who buy it out of solidarity with Palestinian farmers. I examine the emotions embedded in the product: the blood, sweat and tears of the Palestinian producer and the sympathy of the consumers. The deleterious conditions of produ…
Unraveled
Peripheral Visions
The Naturecultures of Foie Gras
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
M oorish R ecipes by John, Fourth Marquis of Bute
Oleo-Signs and Quali-Signs
This article considers the way that a single substance, olive oil, bundles together a set ofqualisigns including luminosity, liquidity, spreadibility, durability, capacity to cleanse, capacity to seal or preserve, capacity to insulate, and notably, a lack of miscibility in water. These qualisigns allow olive oil to operate in several discrete religious contexts in the Mediterranean although the interpretations and the specific qualisigns made sal…
Material Objects in Cosmological Worlds
Middle East Section Honors Outstanding Student and Outstanding Senior Scholar
Fashions and Fundamentalisms in Fin-De-Si Cle Yemen
This article examines the complex relationships between changing forms of commodity production and consumption and changing styles of religiosity in Zabid, the Republic of Yemen. I examine a couple of prominent logics of veiling in Fin-de-Siècle Yemen: Some reformist women add "Islamic socks" and gloves to their already fully modest garb, while other women don chadors that decorate these garments with embroidery, making them into items of fashion…
Like an Extra Virgin
In this article, I track the contemporary possibilities for the global circulation of extravirgin olive oil. Recent technoscientific discoveries about the health benefits of extravirgin olive oil combine with narratives about olive oil's "ancientness" and "naturalness" to make it a very successful food commodity in an era of global concern about the risks of "industrial" food. "The Mediterranean" has emerged as a culture area that is defined by f…
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Slow Food
In recent visit to Korean greengrocer down street from my home in Toronto, I went to reach for Asian hot sauce, only to find that it had been dropped to lower shelf in favour of higher-end competitor: increasingly ubiquitous extra virgin olive oil. Indeed, hot sauce had all but been replaced with at least ten varieties of extra virgin olive oil, with fancy Italian labels and price tags to match, mimicking stock of expensive gourmet store across s…
Scared Sick or Silly
In Zabid, Republic of Yemen, women often succumb to an illness called 'fright' (faja'a) when they or their loved ones are, or are believed to be, in danger. The shock of a sudden threat to oneself or one's family, through illness or accident, is said to cause the soul to shake, leaving one vulnerable to 'fright'. This essay traces women's stories about their fright experiences and their recovery (or failure to recover). Zabidi women hold to a wor…
Auto-ethnographies
Like an Extra Virgin
In this article, I track the contemporary possibilities for the global circulation of extravirgin olive oil. Recent technoscientific discoveries about the health benefits of extravirgin olive oil combine with narratives about olive oil's "ancientness" and "naturalness" to make it a very successful food commodity in an era of global concern about the risks of "industrial" food. "The Mediterranean" has emerged as a culture area that is defined by f…
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
Oleo-Signs and Quali-Signs
This article considers the way that a single substance, olive oil, bundles together a set ofqualisigns including luminosity, liquidity, spreadibility, durability, capacity to cleanse, capacity to seal or preserve, capacity to insulate, and notably, a lack of miscibility in water. These qualisigns allow olive oil to operate in several discrete religious contexts in the Mediterranean although the interpretations and the specific qualisigns made sal…
Material Objects in Cosmological Worlds
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Slow Food
In recent visit to Korean greengrocer down street from my home in Toronto, I went to reach for Asian hot sauce, only to find that it had been dropped to lower shelf in favour of higher-end competitor: increasingly ubiquitous extra virgin olive oil. Indeed, hot sauce had all but been replaced with at least ten varieties of extra virgin olive oil, with fancy Italian labels and price tags to match, mimicking stock of expensive gourmet store across s…
Tournaments of Value
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle East. Most earlier studies have been written from th…
Fashions and Fundamentalisms in Fin-De-Si Cle Yemen
This article examines the complex relationships between changing forms of commodity production and consumption and changing styles of religiosity in Zabid, the Republic of Yemen. I examine a couple of prominent logics of veiling in Fin-de-Siècle Yemen: Some reformist women add "Islamic socks" and gloves to their already fully modest garb, while other women don chadors that decorate these garments with embroidery, making them into items of fashion…
Walk This Way
This essay examines how meanings and practices of walking, particularly quantified walking, change according to place. Drawing together my own experience with a wearable computing device called a Fitbit at home and in my field site, East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank of Palestine, I compare quantified walking and its focus on the self with other forms of walking that highlight place. I examine the relationship between self-monitoring and o…
Hope in the ruins
As space in the West Bank is increasingly threatened, Palestinians are turning to agro-activism to reclaim it. Alongside the established olive activism, there has been a flourishing of generative projects by which my interlocutors attempt to reclaim their space from the environmental damages of the ongoing occupation. I situate these regenerative practices in anthropological discourses about imperial ruins and the blasted landscapes of capitalist…
Blood, Sweat and Tears in a Bottle of Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
This paper examines the trajectory of fairtrade extra-virgin olive oil from its troubled production in Palestine, to its convoluted and difficult circulation in the West Bank and out of Israel, to ethical consumers abroad who buy it out of solidarity with Palestinian farmers. I examine the emotions embedded in the product: the blood, sweat and tears of the Palestinian producer and the sympathy of the consumers. The deleterious conditions of produ…
Discourses of Distinction in Contemporary Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Production
This article shows how Palestinian producers, faced with an “existential threat” to their own physical locality, seek to re-qualify their goods such as olive oil not only as elite goods based on the discourse of distinction of taste, but also in politically-inflected global discourses of distinction that attend to how the product is sourced, produced, and exchanged. Palestinian entrepreneurs and NGO-sponsored agricultural professionals are making…
The Naturecultures of Foie Gras
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
Living Hierarchy in Yemen
This article investigates how unequal material relationships permeate the lived identities (Williams, 1977) of subordination and domination in the forms of concepts about and enactments, of personhood, emotions, piety and propriety among Muslim women of Zabid, Republic of Yemen. I discuss how the gender hierarchy is entwined with wider forms of hierarchy between the elite and a servant class of people, known as the akhdam. Dominant ideas about ap…
Eating Wild
This article examines the strategic use of an event of hospitality celebrating the Wild Foods of Palestine as part of a form of fertile activism. Artist Mirna Bamieh presented the dinner as a "live art" event where the positive power of food and Palestinian culinary distinction was highlighted more than victimhood. In a moment of pleasurable pedagogy, the guests learned about the preservation of knowledge about foraging precious wild plants and t…
Consumerism
The article investigates how consumerism is perceived as an unremarkable part of quotidian existence, as a patriotic duty at various moments, as an indicator of social class, and as a means of semiotic self-fashioning. In consumerism, the tension between the sumptuary restraint on conspicuous consumption, which characterized the early Protestant ethic, and the dependence of capitalism itself on boundless commodity circulation, emerges again and a…
The olive and imaginaries of the Mediterranean
This paper explores how the olive tree and olive oil continue to seep into imaginaries of the Mediterranean. The olive tree, long lived and durable, requires human intervention to be productive: it is emblematic of the Mediterranean region and the longstanding human habitation of it. Long central to the religious imaginaries and practices of the monotheistic tradition and those which preceded it, olive oil has emerged, in recent decades, as the s…
The Accidental Pilgrims
This article focuses on the way in which olive-picking volunteers in Palestine become transformed into 'accidental pilgrims', and unconventional ones at that, by virtue of their participation in the olive harvest. Undergoing the difficulties of mobility that constrain the Palestinians and witnessing holy sites through the eyes and narratives of Palestinian guides, they are exposed to an alternative knowledge and affect regarding the Holy Land, un…
Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities
Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many "techniques of the body," this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life. I reflect on how perceptions of danger can be related at different historical moments: to inclement environmental conditions; to no…
Analogies and resonances in the process of ethnographic understanding
In this paper I explore the way in which anthropological understanding is engendered through analogies with an ethnographers experiential knowledge. This theme is addressed via an account of the development of my friendship with my 'key informant,' employing what Riesman (1977) calls a 'disciplined introspection' of what I as an ethnographer brought to the ethnographic encounter
Tournaments of Value
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle East. Most earlier studies have been written from th…
Analogies and resonances in the process of ethnographic understanding
In this paper I explore the way in which anthropological understanding is engendered through analogies with an ethnographers experiential knowledge. This theme is addressed via an account of the development of my friendship with my 'key informant,' employing what Riesman (1977) calls a 'disciplined introspection' of what I as an ethnographer brought to the ethnographic encounter
Women's Rebellion and Islamic Memory . Fatima Mernissi Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History . Amira El Azhary Sonbol
Living Hierarchy in Yemen
This article investigates how unequal material relationships permeate the lived identities (Williams, 1977) of subordination and domination in the forms of concepts about and enactments, of personhood, emotions, piety and propriety among Muslim women of Zabid, Republic of Yemen. I discuss how the gender hierarchy is entwined with wider forms of hierarchy between the elite and a servant class of people, known as the akhdam. Dominant ideas about ap…
Scared Sick or Silly
In Zabid, Republic of Yemen, women often succumb to an illness called 'fright' (faja'a) when they or their loved ones are, or are believed to be, in danger. The shock of a sudden threat to oneself or one's family, through illness or accident, is said to cause the soul to shake, leaving one vulnerable to 'fright'. This essay traces women's stories about their fright experiences and their recovery (or failure to recover). Zabidi women hold to a wor…
Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Slow Food
In recent visit to Korean greengrocer down street from my home in Toronto, I went to reach for Asian hot sauce, only to find that it had been dropped to lower shelf in favour of higher-end competitor: increasingly ubiquitous extra virgin olive oil. Indeed, hot sauce had all but been replaced with at least ten varieties of extra virgin olive oil, with fancy Italian labels and price tags to match, mimicking stock of expensive gourmet store across s…
Middle East Section Honors Outstanding Student and Outstanding Senior Scholar
Fashions and Fundamentalisms in Fin-De-Si Cle Yemen
This article examines the complex relationships between changing forms of commodity production and consumption and changing styles of religiosity in Zabid, the Republic of Yemen. I examine a couple of prominent logics of veiling in Fin-de-Siècle Yemen: Some reformist women add "Islamic socks" and gloves to their already fully modest garb, while other women don chadors that decorate these garments with embroidery, making them into items of fashion…
Like an Extra Virgin
In this article, I track the contemporary possibilities for the global circulation of extravirgin olive oil. Recent technoscientific discoveries about the health benefits of extravirgin olive oil combine with narratives about olive oil's "ancientness" and "naturalness" to make it a very successful food commodity in an era of global concern about the risks of "industrial" food. "The Mediterranean" has emerged as a culture area that is defined by f…
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
M oorish R ecipes by John, Fourth Marquis of Bute
Oleo-Signs and Quali-Signs
This article considers the way that a single substance, olive oil, bundles together a set ofqualisigns including luminosity, liquidity, spreadibility, durability, capacity to cleanse, capacity to seal or preserve, capacity to insulate, and notably, a lack of miscibility in water. These qualisigns allow olive oil to operate in several discrete religious contexts in the Mediterranean although the interpretations and the specific qualisigns made sal…
Material Objects in Cosmological Worlds
The Naturecultures of Foie Gras
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
Blood, Sweat and Tears in a Bottle of Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
This paper examines the trajectory of fairtrade extra-virgin olive oil from its troubled production in Palestine, to its convoluted and difficult circulation in the West Bank and out of Israel, to ethical consumers abroad who buy it out of solidarity with Palestinian farmers. I examine the emotions embedded in the product: the blood, sweat and tears of the Palestinian producer and the sympathy of the consumers. The deleterious conditions of produ…
Unraveled
Peripheral Visions
Discourses of Distinction in Contemporary Palestinian Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Production
This article shows how Palestinian producers, faced with an “existential threat” to their own physical locality, seek to re-qualify their goods such as olive oil not only as elite goods based on the discourse of distinction of taste, but also in politically-inflected global discourses of distinction that attend to how the product is sourced, produced, and exchanged. Palestinian entrepreneurs and NGO-sponsored agricultural professionals are making…
The Accidental Pilgrims
This article focuses on the way in which olive-picking volunteers in Palestine become transformed into 'accidental pilgrims', and unconventional ones at that, by virtue of their participation in the olive harvest. Undergoing the difficulties of mobility that constrain the Palestinians and witnessing holy sites through the eyes and narratives of Palestinian guides, they are exposed to an alternative knowledge and affect regarding the Holy Land, un…
Consumerism
The article investigates how consumerism is perceived as an unremarkable part of quotidian existence, as a patriotic duty at various moments, as an indicator of social class, and as a means of semiotic self-fashioning. In consumerism, the tension between the sumptuary restraint on conspicuous consumption, which characterized the early Protestant ethic, and the dependence of capitalism itself on boundless commodity circulation, emerges again and a…
Walk This Way
This essay examines how meanings and practices of walking, particularly quantified walking, change according to place. Drawing together my own experience with a wearable computing device called a Fitbit at home and in my field site, East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank of Palestine, I compare quantified walking and its focus on the self with other forms of walking that highlight place. I examine the relationship between self-monitoring and o…
The olive and imaginaries of the Mediterranean
This paper explores how the olive tree and olive oil continue to seep into imaginaries of the Mediterranean. The olive tree, long lived and durable, requires human intervention to be productive: it is emblematic of the Mediterranean region and the longstanding human habitation of it. Long central to the religious imaginaries and practices of the monotheistic tradition and those which preceded it, olive oil has emerged, in recent decades, as the s…
Hope in the ruins
As space in the West Bank is increasingly threatened, Palestinians are turning to agro-activism to reclaim it. Alongside the established olive activism, there has been a flourishing of generative projects by which my interlocutors attempt to reclaim their space from the environmental damages of the ongoing occupation. I situate these regenerative practices in anthropological discourses about imperial ruins and the blasted landscapes of capitalist…
Eating Wild
This article examines the strategic use of an event of hospitality celebrating the Wild Foods of Palestine as part of a form of fertile activism. Artist Mirna Bamieh presented the dinner as a "live art" event where the positive power of food and Palestinian culinary distinction was highlighted more than victimhood. In a moment of pleasurable pedagogy, the guests learned about the preservation of knowledge about foraging precious wild plants and t…
Feeding Iran
Reviewed by: Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic by Rose Wellman Anne Meneley Wellman, Rose. Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 263 pp. Nuclear weapons, contested treaties, and fraught international relations are at the forefront of what Western audiences hear about Iran these days. In Feeding Iran, Rose Wellman offers us something qu…
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