J Gro

Biographic Data

ID	12924
NAME	J Gro
GIVEN NAMES	J
FAMILY NAME	Gro
SIGNATURE	GRO J
AFFILIATIONS	Oregon State University
ORCID	0000-0003-1585-5506
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	34
TOTAL CITATIONS	47
AUTHOR COUNT	34
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	4

Food Consumption and Power: Nourishment and Identity
Carla Guerrón Montero, J Gro et al.CHAPTER2023
All humans need food to stay alive, but food is also a complex social fact. As such, it is central to how people’s individual and collective identities are constructed and how others see us. Food is also associated in multiple ways with production and consumption processes; consumers influence these processes, whether they are motivated primarily by nourishment or by identity. Anthropology has been concerned with the study of food through differe…
Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork across a lifetime
Open AccessJ GroARTICLEEthnography2023Cited by: 1References: 1
In this 'Tale from the Field', I reflect on the practice of ethnographic fieldwork with folk puppeteers over time, using my own experiences in a single fieldwork site at two points, 38 years apart. I describe my fieldwork as a graduate student in 1982 and as a professor towards the end of my career in 2020. I reflect on differences based on digital communication equipment and on my own changing positionality. My 2020 fieldwork was interrupted by …
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan Gross et al.CHAPTERDisplacement, Diaspora, and…2020
Genre et travail indépendant: Divisions sexuées et places des femmes dans le non-salariat
Open AccessSarah Abdelnour, Sophie Bernard et al.ARTICLETravail et emploi2017Cited by: 7References: 5
Tout au long du xxe siecle, les femmes n'ont jamais represente plus de 40 % des non-salarie·e·s, et toujours moins d'un quart des employeur·euse·s. Minoritaires, ces femmes non salariees sont aussi mal connues. La sociologie du genre n'a pourtant pas ete aveuglee par le salariat, bien au contraire. Des premieres enquetes ont ete menees dans les annees 1970 sur les secteurs de l'agriculture et de l'artisanat, mettant en lumiere l'imbrication de l'…
Binational learning communities: A work in progress
Open AccessJ GroARTICLELearning and Teaching2015
Studying abroad can be a life-altering experience, but not necessarily. I credit the two study-abroad experiences I had as an undergraduate as setting my course as an anthropologist. At this stage in my career, having directed, taught and evaluated five study-abroad programmes in three different countries, I felt ready to create my own based on the pros and cons I had observed. In December 2013, I completed a pilot run of a binational learning co…
Moving Forward, Looking Back: On the Frontlines of Dietary Shift in Rural Ecuador
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan Gross et al.ARTICLEÍconos - Revista de Ciencias…2015
En medio de la transición nutricional global, en este artículo se examinan prácticas locales de madres de familia en la sierra norte del Ecuador, haciendo uso de métodos de investigación etnográfica. Los resultados de este estudio demuestran que las comunidades estudiadas continúan preparando alimentos enteros en su gran mayoría; no obstante, al mismo tiempo están presentes alimentos procesados que son deseados y usados en algunos hogares de la z…
Discursive tensions in the development of a local food movement
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan E GrossARTICLEAppetite2011
Constructing a Community Food Economy
J Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEFood and Foodways2011Cited by: 2References: 6
This article addresses paradigm shifts in the U.S. food system and the problems that commodity food poses for local food movements. Balancing the availability of low-cost food for everyone and living wages for local farmers and farm workers presents a major challenge to successfully shifting from a productionist to an ecologically integrated agrifood paradigm. Local food movements juxtapose a knowledge-rich food environment to the one imposed by …
The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon
J Gro, Nancy RosenbergerARTICLEFood Culture & Society2010Cited by: 3References: 2
An in-depth ethnographic study of low-income rural residents in Oregon shows that they are caught in double binds as their ways of life and their incomes increasingly do not fit with the neoliberal economic order, creating tensions in the ways in which they can fulfill their food needs. The study uses Bourdieu's definition of a double bind as a set of inculcated habits that do not match the changing field in social, economic and political ways, a…
Capitalism and Its Discontents: Back-to-the-Lander and Freegan Foodways in Rural Oregon
J Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEFood and Foodways2009Cited by: 15References: 11
During an assessment of food needs and habits in rural Western Oregon, back-to-the-landers and freegans emerged as two groups that resist the global industrial food system by tapping into pre-capitalist subsistence patterns. Subsistence agriculture provides the inspiration for back-to-the-landers while freegans are akin to modern day foragers, living off the waste of others and on what they can gather in the wild. In this article, I describe the …
Teaching about Globalization and Food in Ecuador
David Mcmurray, J GroARTICLEFood Culture & Society2007References: 2
This article describes a course we taught while on exchange at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito during the spring semester of 2006. Food studies provided a window through which to explore issues of race and class and the effects of globalization in this Andean country. The timing was also perfect in that Ecuador was being pressured by the United States into quickly signing a bilateral free-trade agreement. Popular pressure derailed the talk…
Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2002Cited by: 1
Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union. Camille C. O'Reilly. ed., vol. 1. New York: Palgrave, 2001. viii. 183 pp., index
Regionalist accents of global music: The Occitan rap of Les Fabulous Trobadors1
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan Gross et al.ARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies2001
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai , Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan Gross et al.CHAPTERDisplacement, Diaspora, and…1996
Scientific meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan Gross et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of…1995
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ GroARTICLEAnthropology News1995
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1995
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1995
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1995
American Enthnological Society
Open AccessJ GroARTICLEAnthropology News1995
Scientific meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Open AccessBetsy Hallerman, J Gro et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of…1994
Scientific meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Open AccessBetsy Hallerman, J Gro et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of…1994
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1994
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1994
American Ethnological Society
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAnthropology News1994

Capitalism and Its Discontents: Back-to-the-Lander and Freegan Foodways in Rural Oregon
J Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEFood and Foodways2009Cited by: 15References: 11
During an assessment of food needs and habits in rural Western Oregon, back-to-the-landers and freegans emerged as two groups that resist the global industrial food system by tapping into pre-capitalist subsistence patterns. Subsistence agriculture provides the inspiration for back-to-the-landers while freegans are akin to modern day foragers, living off the waste of others and on what they can gather in the wild. In this article, I describe the …
Genre et travail indépendant: Divisions sexuées et places des femmes dans le non-salariat
Open AccessSarah Abdelnour, Sophie Bernard et al.ARTICLETravail et emploi2017Cited by: 7References: 5
Tout au long du xxe siecle, les femmes n'ont jamais represente plus de 40 % des non-salarie·e·s, et toujours moins d'un quart des employeur·euse·s. Minoritaires, ces femmes non salariees sont aussi mal connues. La sociologie du genre n'a pourtant pas ete aveuglee par le salariat, bien au contraire. Des premieres enquetes ont ete menees dans les annees 1970 sur les secteurs de l'agriculture et de l'artisanat, mettant en lumiere l'imbrication de l'…
Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity
J Gro, Joan Gross et al.ARTICLEDiaspora A Journal of Transnational…1994Cited by: 7
Diaspora 3:1 1994 Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity Joan Gross Oregon State University David McMurray Oregon State University Ted Swedenburg American University in Cairo 1. We Can't Take Any Moor For over two thousand years, it has been essentially the same people who pose the same dangers for us. Isn't it true that the Iranian Mujahid îns are the descendants of the Persians defeated at Marathon; that the Islam…
The Politics of Unofficial Language Use: Walloon in Belgium, Tamazight in Morocco
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan E Gro et al.ARTICLECritique of Anthropology1993Cited by: 5References: 14
In Favor of Deceit: A Study of Tricksters in an Amazonian Society
J Gro, Joan E Gro et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1990Cited by: 4
The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon
J Gro, Nancy RosenbergerARTICLEFood Culture & Society2010Cited by: 3References: 2
An in-depth ethnographic study of low-income rural residents in Oregon shows that they are caught in double binds as their ways of life and their incomes increasingly do not fit with the neoliberal economic order, creating tensions in the ways in which they can fulfill their food needs. The study uses Bourdieu's definition of a double bind as a set of inculcated habits that do not match the changing field in social, economic and political ways, a…
Constructing a Community Food Economy
J Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEFood and Foodways2011Cited by: 2References: 6
This article addresses paradigm shifts in the U.S. food system and the problems that commodity food poses for local food movements. Balancing the availability of low-cost food for everyone and living wages for local farmers and farm workers presents a major challenge to successfully shifting from a productionist to an ecologically integrated agrifood paradigm. Local food movements juxtapose a knowledge-rich food environment to the one imposed by …
Transformations of a Popular Culture Form in Northern France and Belgium
J Gro, Joan E Gro et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1987Cited by: 2
Members of dominant social groups, both as scholars and amateurs, have periodically been drawn to European popular culture, defined here as culturalforms associated with subordinated groups. This kind of attention may result in the transformation of these forms, through a process that reveals much about relationships between dominant and subordinate classes. In this paper a nineteenth-century popular culturalform, the rod puppet theater of northe…
Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork across a lifetime
Open AccessJ GroARTICLEEthnography2023Cited by: 1References: 1
In this 'Tale from the Field', I reflect on the practice of ethnographic fieldwork with folk puppeteers over time, using my own experiences in a single fieldwork site at two points, 38 years apart. I describe my fieldwork as a graduate student in 1982 and as a professor towards the end of my career in 2020. I reflect on differences based on digital communication equipment and on my own changing positionality. My 2020 fieldwork was interrupted by …
Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union
Open AccessJ Gro, Joan GrossARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2002Cited by: 1
Language, Ethnicity and the State: Minority Languages in the European Union. Camille C. O'Reilly. ed., vol. 1. New York: Palgrave, 2001. viii. 183 pp., index