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Maris Boyd Gillette

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ID93492
NAMEMaris Boyd Gillette
GIVEN NAMESMaris Boyd
FAMILY NAMEGillette
SIGNATUREGILLETTE M B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Gothenburg
ORCID0000-0001-5826-463X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4
  • Herring Today, Gone Tomorrow? Sweden's Conflict Over the 2024 Bothnian Herring Quota

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, B E Singleton•ARTICLE•Sociologia Ruralis•2026

    This article performs a narrative policy analysis of a Swedish conflict that erupted over the EU's commercial fishing quota for Bothnian herring in the north Baltic Sea. After scientists raised alarms and the European Commission recommended closing the fishery in 2024, diverse actors sought to influence decision‐making. Their accounts diverged, and proposals for action clashed. We parse this controversy by applying Emery Roe's theory and method f…

  • Toward Partnership Ethics for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of University Teaching…•2026

    Since generative artificial intelligence (genAI) applications became widely available in November 2022, university students and teachers have confronted choices about using genAI in coursework, research, and other tasks. In this article, we investigate Swedish university students’ and teachers’ perspectives on the ethics of genAI (non)use in higher education. Data comes from anonymous responses to voluntary online surveys and five focus group int…

  • Mining heritage gone wrong: A study of disappointed tourists at China’s national mine parks

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Eric Boyd et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Recreation Research•2025•References: 39

    Mine parks are a late twentieth-century addition to the global heritage repertoire.To date, most studies of visitor experiences at mining heritage sites focus on tourists who appreciate their outings.Yet mine parks do not satisfy all those who visit.What goes wrong for those who visit these destinations and feel disappointed, and how do they express their displeasure?We answer this question by scrutinising the online negative reviews of tourists …

  • Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism

    Open Access•Juliana Bennett, Maris Boyd Gillette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2025•References: 3

  • Forgotten fish and food reterritorialization: A Swedish citizen- and professional initiative to re-embed seafood

    Open Access•Viktor Vesterberg, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    Mounting evidence demonstrates that the global food system degrades the environment, disenfranchises small-scale producers, and homogenizes foodways. Given that more than 50% of seafood worldwide enters international trade, efforts at transformation must attend to seafood as well as agricultural products. In this article, we investigate a Swedish citizen- and professional initiative, designed and implemented by the culinary civil-society organiza…

  • Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco-Based Multi-Level Marketers of "Healthy" Food Tell UsAboutValues in Market Societies

    Open Access•Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Economic Anthropology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 43

    Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of alternative food networks (AFNs) in the US and Europe. While social scientists classify heterogenous practices as AFNs, their participants share the desire to work against the existing food system, and efforts to access food from outside this system. Many analysts have captured these features of AFNs by using concepts from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Yet while Polanyi's framework has…

  • Mining for tourists in China: A digital ethnography of user-generated content from coal mining heritage parks

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Eric S Boyd•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    Mine parks and industrial heritage are relatively recent tourism phenomena, emerging in Europe and North America during the midtwentieth century.In the People's Republic of China, government officials undertook large-scale promotion of mining heritage between 2005 and 2021, when 88 former state-sector mines were designated national parks.From an official vantage point, transforming former extractive industries into heritage sites helped communiti…

  • Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Many conservation researchers and practitioners argue that knowledges traditionally conceptualized as non-academic are useful for guiding environmental decision-making and stewardship. As demonstrated by the articles in this special issue, bringing Indigenous and local knowledges to bear on environmental conservation requires forging new relationships and, de facto, new political arrangements. In this article, we seek to clarify what is at stake …

  • Doing Conservation Differently: Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Daniela Shebitz et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 13

    Many scientists and environmental activists argue that the scale and scope of contemporary conservation must increase dramatically if we are to halt biodiversity declines and sustain a healthy planet. Yet conservation as currently practiced has faced significant critique for its reliance on reductionist science, advocacy of “fortress”-like preservation measures that disproportionately harm marginalized communities, and integration into the global…

  • Toward productive complicity: Applying 'traditional ecological knowledge' in environmental science

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette et al.•ARTICLE•The Anthropocene Review•2023•Cited by: 9•References: 106

    Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology and various forms of heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses environmental management, conservation, and restoration are also interested in traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous and local knowledge, and local environmental knowledge (hereafter TEK), not least because policymakers and intern…

  • Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Benedict Singleton et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching Anthropology•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…

  • Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: A response to Bodin (2021)

    Open Access•Nicolás Acosta García, Eric S Boyd et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2022•References: 12

  • Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, B E Singleton•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

  • Introduction: Is Europe skilling for sustainable food

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, C Grasseni•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Why an ethnographic contribution connecting skill, food, and sustainability

  • Sweden's good fishers: Skills and values in a transforming social-ecological field

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Milena Arias Schreiber et al.•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    In this article we build on the "good farmer" literature to explore how Swedish coastal fishers represented the "good fisher" in the context of transformations in the social-ecological field of commercial fishing.Anthropological and other social science research on the "good farmer," "good fisher," "good crofter" and related life-modes, works against reductionist models of farmers, fishers, and other livelihood actors as driven by profit or econo…

  • Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden

    Open Access•Milena Arias Schreiber, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Fisheries’ supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and—in cases of overfishing—preventing fishers’ participation. Participation is influenced by fishers’ levels of job satisfaction and a variety of motivations that cannot be reduced to income size. Previous research on fishers’ job satisfaction has applied Maslow’s hierarchy of basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Using these as three categories of co-e…

  • Dead in the water? Sustainability and direct seafood sales in Sweden

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Viktor Vesterberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Swedish and EU authorities, scholars, and activists have articulated sustainability visions and goals related to direct sales of fish and seafood, small-scale fisheries, and coastal communities. Research that investigates whether and how direct seafood sales by European or Swedish coastal fishers achieve such sustainable futures is however only beginning to emerge. In this study we use the theoretical framework of sustainable materialism to analy…

  • Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

    Open Access•Lisa Åkesson, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2020•References: 11

  • Entretien: Regards croisés sur la vraie et fausse porcelaine de Chine

    Open Access•Sophie Duhem, Émilie Roffidal et al.•ARTICLE•Les Cahiers de Framespa•2019

    La question du « vrai » et du « faux » agite de façon récurrente les milieux du marché de l’art et des musées. Elle est également présente en filigrane dans certaines publications universitaires abordant la matérialité des objets. Il s’agit d’une question complexe qui doit être saisie par les chercheurs dans sa dimension transdisciplinaire - recoupant l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art, l’archéologie ou l’histoire économique - tout comme elle doit ê…

  • Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

    Open Access•Sylva Frisk, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the “burka,” “full-covering veil,” “face veil” and “niqab” (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a “burka”; clearly these policy p…

  • New Ethnographic Film in the New C hina

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2014•References: 13

    Over the past two decades, a new ethnographic cinema of C hina has taken shape, one element of an explosion of documentaries produced about the P eople's R epublic. In this volume, five C hina ethnographers discuss making ethnographic films in C hina, thus addressing in part the need, long noted in anthropology, for filmmakers to write about production and postproduction of ethnographic films. In this introduction, I sketch a history of ethnograp…

  • Documenting, Dramatizing, and Representing C hina's Porcelain World in Broken Pots Broken Dreams

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    In this essay, I argue that a successful ethnographic film, like a good story, responds both to its film subjects and to its audience's expectations. I discuss why I made a film about J ingdezhen's porcelain workers (as opposed to a text) and the relationships, goals, ideas, and constraints that influenced the final film. I contextualize my process in a broader discussion of documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, looking at representation in do…

  • Labor and Precariousness inChina's Porcelain Capital

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Work Review•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 19

    In recent years, scholars have turned toBourdieu's model of precariousness to understand workers' experiences under neoliberal capitalism. HereIlook atBourdieu's ideas in relation toChina's most famous porcelain production site: the city ofJingdezhen.Bourdieu directs us toward the shared structural features of job insecurity, emphasizing the political consequences of workers' alienation. Yet his universalist model cannot adequately explain how or…

  • Chinese Entertainments, Filmed

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2012•References: 1

  • The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2012•References: 1

    Berry, Chris, Lu Xinyu, and Lisa Rofel, eds. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010; 304 + xiv pp., ill. Hbk. ISBN 978-988-802

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  • Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims

    Maris Boyd Gillette•BOOK•Between Mecca and Beijing•2002•Cited by: 15

    Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as "backward" in comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though these Hui …

  • Toward productive complicity: Applying 'traditional ecological knowledge' in environmental science

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette et al.•ARTICLE•The Anthropocene Review•2023•Cited by: 9•References: 106

    Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology and various forms of heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses environmental management, conservation, and restoration are also interested in traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous and local knowledge, and local environmental knowledge (hereafter TEK), not least because policymakers and intern…

  • Copying, Counterfeiting, and Capitalism in Contemporary China: Jingdezhen’s Porcelain Industry

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Modern China•2010•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    Eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Jingdezhen between 2003 and 2006 revealed that copying and counterfeiting dominated porcelain production. Ideas about markets and the organization of production encouraged ceramists to copy and counterfeit in search of profit. At the same time, producers responded to others’ fraudulent acts by personalizing their market participation. Their network building was motivated by the belief that individuals wit…

  • Labor and Precariousness inChina's Porcelain Capital

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Work Review•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 19

    In recent years, scholars have turned toBourdieu's model of precariousness to understand workers' experiences under neoliberal capitalism. HereIlook atBourdieu's ideas in relation toChina's most famous porcelain production site: the city ofJingdezhen.Bourdieu directs us toward the shared structural features of job insecurity, emphasizing the political consequences of workers' alienation. Yet his universalist model cannot adequately explain how or…

  • Dead in the water? Sustainability and direct seafood sales in Sweden

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Viktor Vesterberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Swedish and EU authorities, scholars, and activists have articulated sustainability visions and goals related to direct sales of fish and seafood, small-scale fisheries, and coastal communities. Research that investigates whether and how direct seafood sales by European or Swedish coastal fishers achieve such sustainable futures is however only beginning to emerge. In this study we use the theoretical framework of sustainable materialism to analy…

  • Forgotten fish and food reterritorialization: A Swedish citizen- and professional initiative to re-embed seafood

    Open Access•Viktor Vesterberg, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    Mounting evidence demonstrates that the global food system degrades the environment, disenfranchises small-scale producers, and homogenizes foodways. Given that more than 50% of seafood worldwide enters international trade, efforts at transformation must attend to seafood as well as agricultural products. In this article, we investigate a Swedish citizen- and professional initiative, designed and implemented by the culinary civil-society organiza…

  • Doing Conservation Differently: Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Daniela Shebitz et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 13

    Many scientists and environmental activists argue that the scale and scope of contemporary conservation must increase dramatically if we are to halt biodiversity declines and sustain a healthy planet. Yet conservation as currently practiced has faced significant critique for its reliance on reductionist science, advocacy of “fortress”-like preservation measures that disproportionately harm marginalized communities, and integration into the global…

  • Sweden's good fishers: Skills and values in a transforming social-ecological field

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Milena Arias Schreiber et al.•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    In this article we build on the "good farmer" literature to explore how Swedish coastal fishers represented the "good fisher" in the context of transformations in the social-ecological field of commercial fishing.Anthropological and other social science research on the "good farmer," "good fisher," "good crofter" and related life-modes, works against reductionist models of farmers, fishers, and other livelihood actors as driven by profit or econo…

  • Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Many conservation researchers and practitioners argue that knowledges traditionally conceptualized as non-academic are useful for guiding environmental decision-making and stewardship. As demonstrated by the articles in this special issue, bringing Indigenous and local knowledges to bear on environmental conservation requires forging new relationships and, de facto, new political arrangements. In this article, we seek to clarify what is at stake …

  • Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

    Open Access•Sylva Frisk, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the “burka,” “full-covering veil,” “face veil” and “niqab” (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a “burka”; clearly these policy p…

  • Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•The Journal of Asian Studies•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This article discusses how contemporary Chinese Muslims in the city of Xi'an remember a massive conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims that devastated northwest China in the Tongzhi period (1862–74) of the Qing dynasty. Every year on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month, local Hui hold a series of mourning rituals for the Muslims who died at that time. They recount stories about these events during the ritual and in other settings. The …

  • National Past‐Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2000•Cited by: 2

    National Past‐Times: Narrative, Repre‐ sentation, and Power in Modern China. Ann Anagnost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. viii +231 pp., figures, notes, bibli‐ ography, index

  • Polanyi and the Other Alternative Food Network: What San Francisco-Based Multi-Level Marketers of "Healthy" Food Tell UsAboutValues in Market Societies

    Open Access•Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Economic Anthropology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 43

    Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of alternative food networks (AFNs) in the US and Europe. While social scientists classify heterogenous practices as AFNs, their participants share the desire to work against the existing food system, and efforts to access food from outside this system. Many analysts have captured these features of AFNs by using concepts from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Yet while Polanyi's framework has…

  • Mining for tourists in China: A digital ethnography of user-generated content from coal mining heritage parks

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Eric S Boyd•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    Mine parks and industrial heritage are relatively recent tourism phenomena, emerging in Europe and North America during the midtwentieth century.In the People's Republic of China, government officials undertook large-scale promotion of mining heritage between 2005 and 2021, when 88 former state-sector mines were designated national parks.From an official vantage point, transforming former extractive industries into heritage sites helped communiti…

  • Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Benedict Singleton et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching Anthropology•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…

  • Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, B E Singleton•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

  • Introduction: Is Europe skilling for sustainable food

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, C Grasseni•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Why an ethnographic contribution connecting skill, food, and sustainability

  • Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden

    Open Access•Milena Arias Schreiber, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Fisheries’ supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and—in cases of overfishing—preventing fishers’ participation. Participation is influenced by fishers’ levels of job satisfaction and a variety of motivations that cannot be reduced to income size. Previous research on fishers’ job satisfaction has applied Maslow’s hierarchy of basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Using these as three categories of co-e…

  • Documenting, Dramatizing, and Representing C hina's Porcelain World in Broken Pots Broken Dreams

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    In this essay, I argue that a successful ethnographic film, like a good story, responds both to its film subjects and to its audience's expectations. I discuss why I made a film about J ingdezhen's porcelain workers (as opposed to a text) and the relationships, goals, ideas, and constraints that influenced the final film. I contextualize my process in a broader discussion of documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, looking at representation in do…

  • Women's Stories, Discourse, and "the Power of Feelings" in China: A Case from a Muslim Neighborhood

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    In this essay I investigate the interplay of personal, cultural, and official meanings in a brief autobiographical narrative told to me by a 79 year-old Chinese Muslim (Hui) woman from the old Muslim district of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province (China). Ethnographers of China have investigated the role that state discourse plays in Chinese citizens' historical narratives. Official discourse is said to constitute Chinese citizens' subjectivity and Chines…

  • Four What's in a Dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•CHAPTER•Consumer Revolution in Urban China•2000

  • National Past‐Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2000•Cited by: 2

    National Past‐Times: Narrative, Repre‐ sentation, and Power in Modern China. Ann Anagnost. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. viii +231 pp., figures, notes, bibli‐ ography, index

  • Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims

    Maris Boyd Gillette•BOOK•Between Mecca and Beijing•2002•Cited by: 15

    Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as "backward" in comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though these Hui …

  • East Asia Section: The Ethnophotography of Frederick Wulsin, Northwest China, 1923

    Open Access•Eriberto P Lozado, Maris Boyd Gillette et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology News•2004

  • Women's Stories, Discourse, and "the Power of Feelings" in China: A Case from a Muslim Neighborhood

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Asian Anthropology•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    In this essay I investigate the interplay of personal, cultural, and official meanings in a brief autobiographical narrative told to me by a 79 year-old Chinese Muslim (Hui) woman from the old Muslim district of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province (China). Ethnographers of China have investigated the role that state discourse plays in Chinese citizens' historical narratives. Official discourse is said to constitute Chinese citizens' subjectivity and Chines…

  • Violence, the State, and a Chinese Muslim Ritual Remembrance

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•The Journal of Asian Studies•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This article discusses how contemporary Chinese Muslims in the city of Xi'an remember a massive conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims that devastated northwest China in the Tongzhi period (1862–74) of the Qing dynasty. Every year on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month, local Hui hold a series of mourning rituals for the Muslims who died at that time. They recount stories about these events during the ritual and in other settings. The …

  • A Chinese Case Study in Using Psychoanalysis for Ethnography

    Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Southern Anthropologist•2010

    In this article I explore a surprising conversation that I had with a Chinese Muslim woman named Sheng Lanying. Her persistent tendency to see images of Mao that were no longer present led me to examine how personal, emotional meanings informed her experience of nation-building. After providing basic historical context about the Chinese revolution, I present the conversation between Sheng and me. Then I discuss how anthropologists can use, and ha…

  • Copying, Counterfeiting, and Capitalism in Contemporary China: Jingdezhen’s Porcelain Industry

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Modern China•2010•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    Eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in Jingdezhen between 2003 and 2006 revealed that copying and counterfeiting dominated porcelain production. Ideas about markets and the organization of production encouraged ceramists to copy and counterfeit in search of profit. At the same time, producers responded to others’ fraudulent acts by personalizing their market participation. Their network building was motivated by the belief that individuals wit…

  • Chinese Entertainments, Filmed

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2012•References: 1

  • The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement

    Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2012•References: 1

    Berry, Chris, Lu Xinyu, and Lisa Rofel, eds. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010; 304 + xiv pp., ill. Hbk. ISBN 978-988-802

  • New Ethnographic Film in the New C hina

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2014•References: 13

    Over the past two decades, a new ethnographic cinema of C hina has taken shape, one element of an explosion of documentaries produced about the P eople's R epublic. In this volume, five C hina ethnographers discuss making ethnographic films in C hina, thus addressing in part the need, long noted in anthropology, for filmmakers to write about production and postproduction of ethnographic films. In this introduction, I sketch a history of ethnograp…

  • Documenting, Dramatizing, and Representing C hina's Porcelain World in Broken Pots Broken Dreams

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Maris Gillette•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 15

    In this essay, I argue that a successful ethnographic film, like a good story, responds both to its film subjects and to its audience's expectations. I discuss why I made a film about J ingdezhen's porcelain workers (as opposed to a text) and the relationships, goals, ideas, and constraints that influenced the final film. I contextualize my process in a broader discussion of documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, looking at representation in do…

  • Labor and Precariousness inChina's Porcelain Capital

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Anthropology of Work Review•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 19

    In recent years, scholars have turned toBourdieu's model of precariousness to understand workers' experiences under neoliberal capitalism. HereIlook atBourdieu's ideas in relation toChina's most famous porcelain production site: the city ofJingdezhen.Bourdieu directs us toward the shared structural features of job insecurity, emphasizing the political consequences of workers' alienation. Yet his universalist model cannot adequately explain how or…

  • Entretien: Regards croisés sur la vraie et fausse porcelaine de Chine

    Open Access•Sophie Duhem, Émilie Roffidal et al.•ARTICLE•Les Cahiers de Framespa•2019

    La question du « vrai » et du « faux » agite de façon récurrente les milieux du marché de l’art et des musées. Elle est également présente en filigrane dans certaines publications universitaires abordant la matérialité des objets. Il s’agit d’une question complexe qui doit être saisie par les chercheurs dans sa dimension transdisciplinaire - recoupant l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art, l’archéologie ou l’histoire économique - tout comme elle doit ê…

  • Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

    Open Access•Sylva Frisk, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the “burka,” “full-covering veil,” “face veil” and “niqab” (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a “burka”; clearly these policy p…

  • Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

    Open Access•Lisa Åkesson, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2020•References: 11

  • Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden

    Open Access•Milena Arias Schreiber, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Fisheries’ supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and—in cases of overfishing—preventing fishers’ participation. Participation is influenced by fishers’ levels of job satisfaction and a variety of motivations that cannot be reduced to income size. Previous research on fishers’ job satisfaction has applied Maslow’s hierarchy of basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Using these as three categories of co-e…

  • Dead in the water? Sustainability and direct seafood sales in Sweden

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Viktor Vesterberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Swedish and EU authorities, scholars, and activists have articulated sustainability visions and goals related to direct sales of fish and seafood, small-scale fisheries, and coastal communities. Research that investigates whether and how direct seafood sales by European or Swedish coastal fishers achieve such sustainable futures is however only beginning to emerge. In this study we use the theoretical framework of sustainable materialism to analy…

  • Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Benedict Singleton et al.•ARTICLE•Teaching Anthropology•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…

  • Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: A response to Bodin (2021)

    Open Access•Nicolás Acosta García, Eric S Boyd et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2022•References: 12

  • Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, B E Singleton•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

  • Introduction: Is Europe skilling for sustainable food

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, C Grasseni•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Why an ethnographic contribution connecting skill, food, and sustainability

  • Sweden's good fishers: Skills and values in a transforming social-ecological field

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Milena Arias Schreiber et al.•ARTICLE•kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    In this article we build on the "good farmer" literature to explore how Swedish coastal fishers represented the "good fisher" in the context of transformations in the social-ecological field of commercial fishing.Anthropological and other social science research on the "good farmer," "good fisher," "good crofter" and related life-modes, works against reductionist models of farmers, fishers, and other livelihood actors as driven by profit or econo…

  • Mining for tourists in China: A digital ethnography of user-generated content from coal mining heritage parks

    Open Access•Maris Boyd Gillette, Eric S Boyd•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 19

    Mine parks and industrial heritage are relatively recent tourism phenomena, emerging in Europe and North America during the midtwentieth century.In the People's Republic of China, government officials undertook large-scale promotion of mining heritage between 2005 and 2021, when 88 former state-sector mines were designated national parks.From an official vantage point, transforming former extractive industries into heritage sites helped communiti…

  • Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory

    Open Access•B E Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Many conservation researchers and practitioners argue that knowledges traditionally conceptualized as non-academic are useful for guiding environmental decision-making and stewardship. As demonstrated by the articles in this special issue, bringing Indigenous and local knowledges to bear on environmental conservation requires forging new relationships and, de facto, new political arrangements. In this article, we seek to clarify what is at stake …

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