Jeremy Macclancy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Macclancy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Macclancy |
| SIGNATURE | MACCLANCY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Signe Howell (1942-2025)
John Palmer (1953-2023)
Peter Parkes (1951-2022)
Chapter 1 Plodding Towards Prosopography: Oxford Anthropology From 1976 On
The Political Agency of British Migrants: Brexit and Belonging
This book offers a comparative analysis of the political agency of British migrants in Spain and France and explores how they struggle for a sense of belonging in the wake of Brexit. With the UK's departure from the European Union (EU), Britons are set to lose EU citizenship as their political rights are redefined. This book examines the impacts this is having on Britons living in two EU countries. It moves beyond the political agency of underpri…
Before and beyond Brexit: Political dimensions of UK lifestyle migration
Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and interdisciplinary migration studies, usually justified by its extensive and increasing spread, globally. Yet, bar a few exceptions, the political behaviour of lifestyle migrants has been relatively neglected. I redress this imbalance by critically comparing two overlapping processes where British migrants to Spain act politically: elected councillors in to…
Barth and Brexit, online, on target
Academic work done on Information Technology and democracy shows that popular use of the Internet has reduced considerably the entry costs of new political bodies. The representatives of the anti-Brexit groups have created compact organisations, with coherent, stable structures, nimble enough to react speedily to the developments in the Brexit process. Digital fieldwork comes with its own opportunities and problems. Postill contends it needs a sp…
Anthropology and Public Service: The UK Experience
An extremely valuable study would be one that compared the work of anthropologists for the colonial governments of yesteryear with that of anthropologists for governments today.My impression is that the work of the latter is considered insignificant by the governments and largely ignored or else the scholars are involved in tasks so superficial that their training is wasted' (Barrett 1984: 231).How wrong can you be! + homeland degeneration but wi…
Anthropology and Public Service: The UK Experience
These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars…
Transcending the academic/public divide in the transmission of theory: Raglan, diffusionism, and mid-century anthropology
Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within universities. A critical re-examination of the work of Lord Raglan demonstrates that retaining an overly academic conception of anthropology impoverishes our understanding of its pasts and its futures. The last of the gentleman-scholars in British anthropology, Raglan was a prominent polemicist of the mid-century, who persistently kept anthropological approa…
Moving images. John Layard, fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914
John Layard was such an unusual, productive man. Chances are his life is yet to be written because a biographer would have to dominate the histories of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literature
Alternative countrysides: Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU.\n\nWith detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against resident…
Solar Cooking: Why is it Not Yet Global
Direct exploitation of the sun's rays should be making a major contribution to righting the ills of the impoverished world. However, despite great efforts by different organizations and national governments to promote their use, solar cookers remain relatively underused, except in certain clearly defined pockets. In this article, I examine the potential promise of solar cooking and the varieties of reasons why it is achieving such disappointing r…
Two sides of one river: Nationalism and ethnography in Galicia and Portugal, by Antonio Medeiros
"Two sides of one river: Nationalism and ethnography in Galicia and Portugal, by Antonio Medeiros." Anthropological Forum, 24(3), pp. 315–316
Ethics in the Field
In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplines—social and biological anthropology and primatology—come together to question and compare the ethical regula…
Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts
War, judgment, and memory in the Basque borderlands 1914‐1945 – By Sandra Ott
Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives From Primatology, Biological, and Social Anthropology
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research practice. It is also an innovative way to further the …
Possessed prose: Review article
Barley, Nigel . Island of demons . 388 pp . Singapore : Monsoon , 2009 . $15.95 (paper ) Beatty, Andrew . A shadow falls: in the heart of Java . xvii, 318 pp . London : Faber , 2009 . £12.95 (paper ) There is no popular anthropology. There are popular anthropologies, an enriching variety of genres as long and well established as their academic counterparts. That variety includes personal (and fictionalized) fieldwork accounts; accessible works br…
Market day in Provence
The restaurants book: Ethnographies of where we eat - Edited by David Beriss & David Sutton
Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins. Aleksandar Bošković
The taste culture reader: Experiencing food and drink - Edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer
Alternative countrysides
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers? dreams come up against residents? …
High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market
How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever publishe…
Brief Encounter: The Meeting, in Mass-Observation, of British Surrealism and Popular Anthropology
Much of the programme of today's literary postmodernists is not new, but was prefigured in the 1930s in the early work of Mass-Observation. One central aim of this organization, run by a group ofBritish surrealists and a popularizing anthropologist, was the production ofethnography of the people by the people for the people. Though it won great public interest, the work of Mass-Observation was not on the whole accepted by anthropologists of the d…
Before and beyond Brexit: Political dimensions of UK lifestyle migration
Lifestyle migration is a now-established subfield within the anthropology of migration, and interdisciplinary migration studies, usually justified by its extensive and increasing spread, globally. Yet, bar a few exceptions, the political behaviour of lifestyle migrants has been relatively neglected. I redress this imbalance by critically comparing two overlapping processes where British migrants to Spain act politically: elected councillors in to…
Violence and Piety in Spanish Folklore
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
The Literary Image of Anthropologists
Strangely, anthropologists have ignored popular accounts of themselves. Yet anthropologists are the most popularized academics in fiction. They are portrayed as either heroic or (much more common) pathetic. Fieldwork marks them out as distinctive and makes ordinary anthropologists odd and the already odd ones even odder. Writers of fiction exploit these characters to enable geographical shifts, debate cultural relativity, poke fun at the discipli…
Revitalization or Continuity in European Ritual? The Case of San Bessu
This article argues against Boissevain's thesis that many European rituals have recently undergone revitalization after a post-war period of deritualization. We analyse, as a counter-example to Boissevain's thesis, a ritual which has displayed a remarkable degree of continuity over the last eighty years. We suggest that this counter-example is not an isolated one, and that Boissevain's position only appears convincing because it relies on excessi…
Popularising Anthropology
Moving images. John Layard, fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914
John Layard was such an unusual, productive man. Chances are his life is yet to be written because a biographer would have to dominate the histories of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literature
Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts
The milk tie
Despite the plethora of studies about various aspects of breast-feeding, one distinctive, historically significant and once very widespread facet of the topic appears to have been neglected: the establishment of an indissoluble 'milk-tie' between infants of different parents who suck at the same breast, and the important social, political and economic consequences which follow from it. The aims of this paper are (1) to carry out the first (to my …
From New Hebrides to Vanuatu, 1979–80∗
(1981). From New Hebrides to Vanuatu, 1979–80. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 92-104
Nakomaha: A Counter‐Colonial Life and its Contexts. Anthropological Approaches to Biography
In the anthropology of Melanesia, local life‐histories or biographies have all too often been presented in a non‐problematic, acritical manner. Instead of repeating this hide‐bound style in an unthinking manner, I attempt to be more ethnographically sensitive to local realities and to open up the genre by presenting information about a ni‐Vanuatu leader in a deliberately achronic style. By providing relevant data in terms of their sources, I put …
Animal to Edible
Preface Introduction 1. A place that is no-place 2. Flaying the animal: the disjunctions involved 3. Flaying the animal: the patient metamorphosis 4. The shedding of blood 5. Men and animals Conclusion
A Natural Curiosity: The British Market in Primitive Art
The Culture of Radical Basque Nationalism
Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC post-doctoral r esearch fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford. He has undertaken field research not only in Spain but in Melanesia and in a London auction house. Basque nationalism occupies space in British newspapers only when ETA gunmen claim fresh victims. On days otherwise devoid of news, the international pages carry 'action photos' of the latest violent clash between demonstrators and …
Transcending the academic/public divide in the transmission of theory: Raglan, diffusionism, and mid-century anthropology
Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within universities. A critical re-examination of the work of Lord Raglan demonstrates that retaining an overly academic conception of anthropology impoverishes our understanding of its pasts and its futures. The last of the gentleman-scholars in British anthropology, Raglan was a prominent polemicist of the mid-century, who persistently kept anthropological approa…
Possessed prose: Review article
Barley, Nigel . Island of demons . 388 pp . Singapore : Monsoon , 2009 . $15.95 (paper ) Beatty, Andrew . A shadow falls: in the heart of Java . xvii, 318 pp . London : Faber , 2009 . £12.95 (paper ) There is no popular anthropology. There are popular anthropologies, an enriching variety of genres as long and well established as their academic counterparts. That variety includes personal (and fictionalized) fieldwork accounts; accessible works br…
From New Hebrides to Vanuatu, 1979–80∗
(1981). From New Hebrides to Vanuatu, 1979–80. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 92-104
Vanuatu since independence: 1980–83
Fieldwork Overseas
Mana: An Anthropological Metaphor for Island Melanesia
A Natural Curiosity: The British Market in Primitive Art
The Culture of Radical Basque Nationalism
Jeremy MacClancy is at present an ESRC post-doctoral r esearch fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford. He has undertaken field research not only in Spain but in Melanesia and in a London auction house. Basque nationalism occupies space in British newspapers only when ETA gunmen claim fresh victims. On days otherwise devoid of news, the international pages carry 'action photos' of the latest violent clash between demonstrators and …
Violence and Piety in Spanish Folklore
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Primitive Thinking About Sophisticated Art
History and Ethnicity
Film reviews
Jerome Mintz Retrospective: 1968–1986 The Shoemaker. 1978, black‐and‐white, 34 minutes. Pepe's Family. 1978, black‐and‐white, 41 minutes. Perico the Bowlmaker. 1978, black‐and‐white, 45 minutes. The Shepherd's Family. 1978, black‐and‐white, 22 minutes. All produced, directed, and edited by Jerome Mintz; Camera and Sound: Jerome Mintz; Narration: Russ Salmon and Charles Vitaliano. All in Spanish with English voice‐over. 16mm and 1⁄2′′ VHS video. D…
Animal to Edible
Preface Introduction 1. A place that is no-place 2. Flaying the animal: the disjunctions involved 3. Flaying the animal: the patient metamorphosis 4. The shedding of blood 5. Men and animals Conclusion
Brief Encounter: The Meeting, in Mass-Observation, of British Surrealism and Popular Anthropology
Much of the programme of today's literary postmodernists is not new, but was prefigured in the 1930s in the early work of Mass-Observation. One central aim of this organization, run by a group ofBritish surrealists and a popularizing anthropologist, was the production ofethnography of the people by the people for the people. Though it won great public interest, the work of Mass-Observation was not on the whole accepted by anthropologists of the d…
Revitalization or Continuity in European Ritual? The Case of San Bessu
This article argues against Boissevain's thesis that many European rituals have recently undergone revitalization after a post-war period of deritualization. We analyse, as a counter-example to Boissevain's thesis, a ritual which has displayed a remarkable degree of continuity over the last eighty years. We suggest that this counter-example is not an isolated one, and that Boissevain's position only appears convincing because it relies on excessi…
Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work
Popularising Anthropology
High Art Down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market
How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype of glitzy New York galleries, and focuses instead upon the more localized, and much more typical, world of the St. Louis art scene. What emerges is the most comprehensive description ever publishe…
Milk
The milk tie
Despite the plethora of studies about various aspects of breast-feeding, one distinctive, historically significant and once very widespread facet of the topic appears to have been neglected: the establishment of an indissoluble 'milk-tie' between infants of different parents who suck at the same breast, and the important social, political and economic consequences which follow from it. The aims of this paper are (1) to carry out the first (to my …
The Literary Image of Anthropologists
Strangely, anthropologists have ignored popular accounts of themselves. Yet anthropologists are the most popularized academics in fiction. They are portrayed as either heroic or (much more common) pathetic. Fieldwork marks them out as distinctive and makes ordinary anthropologists odd and the already odd ones even odder. Writers of fiction exploit these characters to enable geographical shifts, debate cultural relativity, poke fun at the discipli…
Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice
Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena
Redresses the balance on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world. Everyday nationalism, the human and cultural aspects of identity, is a neglected subject in the literature on nationalism in Europe. Jeremy MacClancy redresses the balance in this unusual and sharp book on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world. The style is fresh and colloquial, dealing with several of …
Nakomaha: A Counter‐Colonial Life and its Contexts. Anthropological Approaches to Biography
In the anthropology of Melanesia, local life‐histories or biographies have all too often been presented in a non‐problematic, acritical manner. Instead of repeating this hide‐bound style in an unthinking manner, I attempt to be more ethnographically sensitive to local realities and to open up the genre by presenting information about a ni‐Vanuatu leader in a deliberately achronic style. By providing relevant data in terms of their sources, I put …
Rodney Needham 1923-2006: Distinguished structuralist anthropologist
The taste culture reader: Experiencing food and drink - Edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer
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