A Reed
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 14668 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Reed |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Reed |
| FIRMA | REED A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8917-6341 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ethnographies of Interest
Anthropologists and social theorists have written extensively about the ways in which economic and political interests lead people to act in social life. Less scholarly attention has been paid, however, to what people find “interesting,” in the sense of being engaged or enthused rather than of having a stake in something. Even more rarely have we attended to the ethnographic deployment of both of these ambiguous senses of interest in specific soc…
Why we should keep quiet at the zoo
Zoos are typically public attractions that do not explicitly, or through a more implicit culture, expect quietness from their guests. This paper will explore whether quietness is something we should aim for when we are visiting zoos. Primarily through analogy with other public spaces which share some of the key characteristics of zoos (libraries and schools, cinemas, theatres and galleries, war memorials, and hospitals and gardens), we suggest th…
Games of Collaboration
This paper looks at the theme of collaboration through the prism of game design, and especially the example of serious games. At its heart, this is a consideration of two collaborative projects between experts. The first is a current collaboration between computer scientists, game designers, and a theatre company in Scotland, in which the author is also a collaborator and the project's ethnographer. The second is perhaps the largest and most high…
Listening to the Zoo
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under Grant ES/R009554/1
A desirable privation
This article describes and discusses a set of exercises in silent zoo visiting conducted at two zoos in the Southwest of the UK in 2019. The visits were part of a wider project on the auditory culture of zoos, institutions which have tended to be analysed by reference to their concern with the visual display of captive other-than-human animals (henceforth animals). Linking ideas on silence that have emerged from work in anthropology and sound stu…
Life on the Lifeboat
Animal protection activism has a longstanding relationship to formal philosophizing, most notably through the philosophy of animal rights. Within that tradition, the stylized ethical dilemma plays an important role. This is especially true for the formative work of Tom Regan, where the lifeboat problem is a central argumentative resource. Based on fieldwork with a Scottish animal protection organization, this article explores that relationship bu…
Off the Rails
This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualization and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of the "thinness" of ethical thought experiments while also suggesting some ways in which philosophers might wish to defend them. We also point to a growing interest on the part of a range of anthropolog…
Sympathy for Oswald Mosley
The mid-twentieth-century English novelist, Henry Williamson, wrote nature stories but also romantic and historical fiction, including a fifteen-volume saga that contains a largely favorable characterization of Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. This essay considers the challenge of such a fascist character through the prism of the literary imagination of Williamson readers, and more specifically through my longstanding e…
Listening after the animals
In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross-species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pas…
Supplemental Material for Trust in Everyday Life
Developing Academic Discourse Through Literacy and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
In this qualitative study, the authors investigated seventh‐ and eighth‐grade students’ participation in an elective civics course focused on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The researcher and classroom teacher collaborated to embed literacy strategies into his curriculum in this design‐based research study. The intervention cycle was repeated through six units of instruction over a nine‐week period. Data analysis suggests that literacy stra…
Introduction to special section 2
The authors thank The Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust for sponsoring the original Anthropology of Character conference, held at the University of St Andrews in 2016
Introduction to special section 1
This introductory essay seeks to reintroduce character to anthropological inquiry. Although it has long been out of favour due to its historical associations with accounts that attempt to describe national or ethnic character, we argue that a return of the under‐theorised concept may be in order. The essay invites socio‐cultural anthropologists to describe the diverse contexts in which character is recognised or enacted, out‐there‐in‐the‐world, a…
Full Issue
The Foundation
Literature and Reading
This article examines anthropological approaches to fiction reading. It asks why the field of literary anthropology remains largely disinvested of ethnographic work on literary cultures and how that field might approach the study of literature and reading ethnographically. The issue of the creative agency of fiction readers is explored in the context of what it means to ask anthropological questions of literature, which includes the challenge of …
An office of ethics
This essay explores the relationship between meetings and organizational ethics in an animal protection charity in Scotland. Here, recent ‘professionalization’ has seen the late introduction of an ‘ethics of office’ and accompanying impersonalization of roles. A consequent struggle emerges over what the relationship should be between the core message of the organization, as an office of animal ethics, and the ‘personal’ principles or ethical comm…
Introduction
This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane forms through which these work. Seeking to develop a distinctively ethnographic focus to these quotidian and ubiquitous procedures, we outline an approach that moves attention beyond a narrow concern w…
Ageing with a Captive Society in London
This paper considers the spatio-temporal capacity of a set of relationships as they are identified by a group of older people who are regular visitors to London Zoo. It explores the intersections between the time of retirement and the scales and directionality of time commonly invoked by zoological forms of knowledge about species and biodiversity. This includes a look at how both positive and negative theories of futures, including the future of…
Snared
This paper will examine how animal protection investigators, lobbyists and campaigners in Scotland consider the relationship between nature and ethics. Specifically, it will look at the complex ways in which activists deploy the categories 'natural' and 'unnatural' in order to interpret realms of animal suffering and judge the actions of human and non-human agents in those fields. The paper is also concerned to chart the ways in which animal prot…
City of purposes
This essay looks at the ideas and practice of libertarian activists in London. It focuses on the value placed on purposefulness, and on the city as the terrain for a free life. These libertarians' activism is explored through an engagement with the centrality of 'freedom' in the emergent anthropology of ethics, and by reference to alternative theories of power or action. In particular, attention falls on the challenge of representing subjects who…
The policy and institutional challenges of grid integration of renewable energy in the western United States
Inspiring Strathern
In this chapter, I want to explore what it might mean, as an anthropologist, to claim an intellectual debt. How should one properly recognise the influence of the ideas of another? What is the correct register for acknowledging that person and demonstrating the effect of his or her work? Although the form of these questions is generalised, of course a properly anthropological response must involve a turn to the particular. In short, I need an exa…
Number‐One Enemy
In this essay, I aim to explore how prisoners at Bomana in PNG, in the period I was there between 1994–1995, figured the violence of police. This includes an examination of what they understand to be state power and what they take to be their response to it, including the possibility of critique. Do inmates at Bomana recognize a scale shift between state and citizen, between law and violence? If so, when? How do they relate the actions of the Con…
The Breakup 2.0
Hope on remand
This article looks at life on remand in a Papua New Guinean prison. It examines the hopefulness of those inmates waiting for court and legal judgment. Their situation is explored through an engagement with the analysis offered by the New Melanesian Ethnography and the emergent field of hope studies. In particular, attention falls on the concept of hope as a method of knowledge and mode of action. The argument is elaborated and redefined by reloca…
My blog is me
Much anthropological critical reflection has centred on the act of text production. In particular, anthropologists have become concerned to understand the strategic status of their own texts and to seek to impose new constraints on their writing. In this paper, I want to explore further the kind of knowledge anthropologists can have of text. However, my focus is not on the dynamics of language and composition, but rather on the consequences of re…
City of Details
This article investigates the ways in which a group of enthusiasts for London constitute their city. The 'personality' attributed to London is described, as well as the interpretive acts that reveal it. These people, who also lead walking tours across the city, privilege 'detail' as their term of analysis. The article examines the identified qualities of that category, in particular its perceived capacity to animate the plural time-spaces of the …
Hope on remand
This article looks at life on remand in a Papua New Guinean prison. It examines the hopefulness of those inmates waiting for court and legal judgment. Their situation is explored through an engagement with the analysis offered by the New Melanesian Ethnography and the emergent field of hope studies. In particular, attention falls on the concept of hope as a method of knowledge and mode of action. The argument is elaborated and redefined by reloca…
Introduction
This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane forms through which these work. Seeking to develop a distinctively ethnographic focus to these quotidian and ubiquitous procedures, we outline an approach that moves attention beyond a narrow concern w…
Blog This
This article examines the ways in which a group of London webloggers or on-line journal keepers constitute their city. They claim that their strategies for knowing London are derived from techniques for knowing the Internet. In particular, webloggers adapt the activity and culture of on-line surfing. The article investigates the method of 'blogging' alongside and against the interpretative strategies deployed by urban theorists and sketch writers…
Anticipating Individuals
L'A. explore les experiences visuelles des prisonniers detenus a Bomana en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee. Il examine ce que les prisonniers considerent comme etant les capacites limites visuelles de l'incarceration. Foucault decrit le role des technologies penales de surveillance dans le developpement de la subjectivite moderne en Europe et en Amerique du Nord. Mais les prisonniers de Bonama differencient plusieurs modes visuels, chacun avec des cons…
Literature and Reading
This article examines anthropological approaches to fiction reading. It asks why the field of literary anthropology remains largely disinvested of ethnographic work on literary cultures and how that field might approach the study of literature and reading ethnographically. The issue of the creative agency of fiction readers is explored in the context of what it means to ask anthropological questions of literature, which includes the challenge of …
Control and Condoms in Commercial Sex
Indepth interviews were recorded with 24 clients of female sex workers to explore their perspectives on the control of commercial sex encounters. The men saw the encounter as falling into three phases, only the first of which ‐ the decision to have sex ‐ was under their control. Subsequent phases ‐ the negotiation of services and the performance of sex ‐ they argued to be under worker control. The men considered that they acquiesced in worker con…
"Expanding "Henry
Members of the Henry Williamson Society talk of what fiction reading does for them. Their experience of literature is connected to their appreciation of the author Henry Williamson as a central and mythic figure. How "Henry" is composed determines the kind of actors readers can be and also explains the capacities assigned to the Williamson artifacts-books and land-that they identify. In this article, I explore a theory of reading as relationship …
Henry and I
Men's fiction reading is explored through a study of the members of a literary society (the Henry Williamson Society) in the United Kingdom. The activity of solitary reading is linked to these readers' conceptions of self and masculinity. In particular, their accounts of the passions or rapture of reading are understood through a theory of possession. Members of the literary society regard the event of fiction reading as crucial to their life dev…
An office of ethics
This essay explores the relationship between meetings and organizational ethics in an animal protection charity in Scotland. Here, recent ‘professionalization’ has seen the late introduction of an ‘ethics of office’ and accompanying impersonalization of roles. A consequent struggle emerges over what the relationship should be between the core message of the organization, as an office of animal ethics, and the ‘personal’ principles or ethical comm…
City of purposes
This essay looks at the ideas and practice of libertarian activists in London. It focuses on the value placed on purposefulness, and on the city as the terrain for a free life. These libertarians' activism is explored through an engagement with the centrality of 'freedom' in the emergent anthropology of ethics, and by reference to alternative theories of power or action. In particular, attention falls on the challenge of representing subjects who…
Listening after the animals
In anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, zoos have tended to be theorized as places of spectacle. Scholars often focus on the ways in which these institutions enable the viewing of other-than-human animals by human publics. This article, however, uses sound-focused ethnographic fieldwork to engage with two UK zoos and to describe a particular mode of cross-species listening which is enacted by zookeepers. The concepts of pas…
Snared
This paper will examine how animal protection investigators, lobbyists and campaigners in Scotland consider the relationship between nature and ethics. Specifically, it will look at the complex ways in which activists deploy the categories 'natural' and 'unnatural' in order to interpret realms of animal suffering and judge the actions of human and non-human agents in those fields. The paper is also concerned to chart the ways in which animal prot…
Ageing with a Captive Society in London
This paper considers the spatio-temporal capacity of a set of relationships as they are identified by a group of older people who are regular visitors to London Zoo. It explores the intersections between the time of retirement and the scales and directionality of time commonly invoked by zoological forms of knowledge about species and biodiversity. This includes a look at how both positive and negative theories of futures, including the future of…
The policy and institutional challenges of grid integration of renewable energy in the western United States
Ethnographies of Interest
Anthropologists and social theorists have written extensively about the ways in which economic and political interests lead people to act in social life. Less scholarly attention has been paid, however, to what people find “interesting,” in the sense of being engaged or enthused rather than of having a stake in something. Even more rarely have we attended to the ethnographic deployment of both of these ambiguous senses of interest in specific soc…
Listening to the Zoo
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under Grant ES/R009554/1
Effects of video game play on snacking behavior
Body image satisfaction among intercollegiate female athletes using a scale of muscularity
The Distribution of Larger Species of Birds Breeding on the Coasts of Foxe Basin and Northern Hudson Bay, Canada
Aerial surveys of large birds on the coasts of Foxe Basin and northern Hudson Bay were carried out in late June and early July in 1979, 1983 and 1984. Greatest numbers of birds were seen along low-lying coasts backed by wet lowland tundra, particularly where these merged into extensive inter-tidal flats. These areas have emerged from the sea only during the past 2000 years. Even in areas of wet lowland tundra, all species except jaegers appeared …
Patrons of the sex industry
This paper reports on an in-depth study of how men who buy sex construe risk in relation to their sexual activities. Twenty men were contacted in a massage parlour, four more through sex workers or newspaper advertisements. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were recorded. Two main discourses were articulated by the men to "manage' risk. Parlour clients articulated a discourse of the "cordon sanitaire' which they defined in various way to encompas…
Control and Condoms in Commercial Sex
Indepth interviews were recorded with 24 clients of female sex workers to explore their perspectives on the control of commercial sex encounters. The men saw the encounter as falling into three phases, only the first of which ‐ the decision to have sex ‐ was under their control. Subsequent phases ‐ the negotiation of services and the performance of sex ‐ they argued to be under worker control. The men considered that they acquiesced in worker con…
Anticipating Individuals
L'A. explore les experiences visuelles des prisonniers detenus a Bomana en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee. Il examine ce que les prisonniers considerent comme etant les capacites limites visuelles de l'incarceration. Foucault decrit le role des technologies penales de surveillance dans le developpement de la subjectivite moderne en Europe et en Amerique du Nord. Mais les prisonniers de Bonama differencient plusieurs modes visuels, chacun avec des cons…
City of Details
This article investigates the ways in which a group of enthusiasts for London constitute their city. The 'personality' attributed to London is described, as well as the interpretive acts that reveal it. These people, who also lead walking tours across the city, privilege 'detail' as their term of analysis. The article examines the identified qualities of that category, in particular its perceived capacity to animate the plural time-spaces of the …
Henry and I
Men's fiction reading is explored through a study of the members of a literary society (the Henry Williamson Society) in the United Kingdom. The activity of solitary reading is linked to these readers' conceptions of self and masculinity. In particular, their accounts of the passions or rapture of reading are understood through a theory of possession. Members of the literary society regard the event of fiction reading as crucial to their life dev…
"Expanding "Henry
Members of the Henry Williamson Society talk of what fiction reading does for them. Their experience of literature is connected to their appreciation of the author Henry Williamson as a central and mythic figure. How "Henry" is composed determines the kind of actors readers can be and also explains the capacities assigned to the Williamson artifacts-books and land-that they identify. In this article, I explore a theory of reading as relationship …
My blog is me
Much anthropological critical reflection has centred on the act of text production. In particular, anthropologists have become concerned to understand the strategic status of their own texts and to seek to impose new constraints on their writing. In this paper, I want to explore further the kind of knowledge anthropologists can have of text. However, my focus is not on the dynamics of language and composition, but rather on the consequences of re…
Effects of video game play on snacking behavior
Effects of chocolate consumption on enhancing cognitive performance
Effects of green tea on cognition, perceived workload, mood, and endurance
Body image satisfaction among intercollegiate female athletes using a scale of muscularity
Blog This
This article examines the ways in which a group of London webloggers or on-line journal keepers constitute their city. They claim that their strategies for knowing London are derived from techniques for knowing the Internet. In particular, webloggers adapt the activity and culture of on-line surfing. The article investigates the method of 'blogging' alongside and against the interpretative strategies deployed by urban theorists and sketch writers…
Is it useful to talk of a ‘cosmopolitan method’
Inspiring Strathern
In this chapter, I want to explore what it might mean, as an anthropologist, to claim an intellectual debt. How should one properly recognise the influence of the ideas of another? What is the correct register for acknowledging that person and demonstrating the effect of his or her work? Although the form of these questions is generalised, of course a properly anthropological response must involve a turn to the particular. In short, I need an exa…
Number‐One Enemy
In this essay, I aim to explore how prisoners at Bomana in PNG, in the period I was there between 1994–1995, figured the violence of police. This includes an examination of what they understand to be state power and what they take to be their response to it, including the possibility of critique. Do inmates at Bomana recognize a scale shift between state and citizen, between law and violence? If so, when? How do they relate the actions of the Con…
The Breakup 2.0
Hope on remand
This article looks at life on remand in a Papua New Guinean prison. It examines the hopefulness of those inmates waiting for court and legal judgment. Their situation is explored through an engagement with the analysis offered by the New Melanesian Ethnography and the emergent field of hope studies. In particular, attention falls on the concept of hope as a method of knowledge and mode of action. The argument is elaborated and redefined by reloca…
The policy and institutional challenges of grid integration of renewable energy in the western United States
City of purposes
This essay looks at the ideas and practice of libertarian activists in London. It focuses on the value placed on purposefulness, and on the city as the terrain for a free life. These libertarians' activism is explored through an engagement with the centrality of 'freedom' in the emergent anthropology of ethics, and by reference to alternative theories of power or action. In particular, attention falls on the challenge of representing subjects who…
An office of ethics
This essay explores the relationship between meetings and organizational ethics in an animal protection charity in Scotland. Here, recent ‘professionalization’ has seen the late introduction of an ‘ethics of office’ and accompanying impersonalization of roles. A consequent struggle emerges over what the relationship should be between the core message of the organization, as an office of animal ethics, and the ‘personal’ principles or ethical comm…
Introduction
This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane forms through which these work. Seeking to develop a distinctively ethnographic focus to these quotidian and ubiquitous procedures, we outline an approach that moves attention beyond a narrow concern w…
Ageing with a Captive Society in London
This paper considers the spatio-temporal capacity of a set of relationships as they are identified by a group of older people who are regular visitors to London Zoo. It explores the intersections between the time of retirement and the scales and directionality of time commonly invoked by zoological forms of knowledge about species and biodiversity. This includes a look at how both positive and negative theories of futures, including the future of…
Snared
This paper will examine how animal protection investigators, lobbyists and campaigners in Scotland consider the relationship between nature and ethics. Specifically, it will look at the complex ways in which activists deploy the categories 'natural' and 'unnatural' in order to interpret realms of animal suffering and judge the actions of human and non-human agents in those fields. The paper is also concerned to chart the ways in which animal prot…
Introduction to special section 2
The authors thank The Ladislav Holy Memorial Trust for sponsoring the original Anthropology of Character conference, held at the University of St Andrews in 2016
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