E Finnis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16498 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Finnis |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Finnis |
| ASSINATURA | FINNIS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1688-0108 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Forecasts
Multi-Course and Faculty-Student Collaboration
In this paper, we reflect on the development, integration, and implementation of a course-based, primary data collection fieldwork project for undergraduate anthropology students at the University of Guelph. Integrated across three courses taught between January-April 2022, we developed this project to provide students with the opportunity to build research skills and to broaden their understandings of how anthropological methods can be mobilized…
Artificial Intelligence, Academic Misconduct, and the Borg
We explore playfully the capacity of an artificial intelligence text generation engine called GPT-3 to produce credible academic texts. Departing from a concern raised by colleagues about the possibility of using GPT-3 to cheat in academia, particularly at the undergraduate level, we interact with the GPT-3 interface as nerdy novices to learn what it could produce. The outputs from the GPT-3 text generation engine are incredible, at times surpris…
Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario
Drawing on farmers' lived experiences, I explore factors that shape agricultural persistence in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. Local farming is embedded in broader contexts and is place-based and specific. Agricultural persistence and resilience are shaped in part through individual factors, such as flexibility in response to change, the valuing of local agricultural heritage, and the determination to farm. However, attention to speci…
Automated pastures and the digital divide
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women’s Self-help Groups
In this article, I discuss women’s perceptions of and experiences with self-help groups and collective action in two agricultural communities in Tamil Nadu, India. Focusing on women’s social and political activities, particularly in terms of the struggle for the approval and construction of a new road, I argue that in these communities, self-help groups offered a conceptual space that encouraged collective actions, and contributed to processes of…
They go to the city, and sometimes they come back
In this paper, I examine what people's reasons for migrating from, and subsequently returning to, a rural community can tell us about the inter-related ways that rural and urban spaces are conceptualised. Drawing on research in a small, agricultural community in Paraguay, I explore two illustrations of women who are circular migrants, in order to demonstrate some of the potential circumstances, aspirations, and experiences that can shape decision…
Agricultural and Dietary Meanings of Mandioca in Rural Paraguay
In this paper we use mandioca (Latin: Manihot esculenta) as a lens through which to examine agricultural and dietary continuity and change, and questions of food sovereignty practice in a rural, smallholder community in Paraguay. Mandioca is a preferred, staple food and a ubiquitous crop in the area, and the ways farmers conceptualize it as both a crop and as a dietary staple highlights local complexities when it comes to control over agricultura…
Changes to Agricultural Decision Making and Food Procurement Strategies in Rural Paraguay
This research note provides a preliminary discussion of changing agricultural and food procurement strategies in a smallholder farming community in Piribebuy District, Paraguay. Although considerable attention has been paid to the contemporary problems of soy agriculture in Paraguay, it is also important to engage with the experiences of smallholders who are not involved in or affected by soy cultivation, as this highlights farmers’ diverse every…
U.W.O.A.S Symposium Abstracts 2001
“Now it is an Easy Life”
Although coarse grains are considered underused and abandoned crops in much of India, they have gained increasing attention as having the potential to improve food security and positively affect small farmers' incomes. These trends offer the opportunity to examine the specific ways that contemporary declines in coarse grains are understood at the local level; in particular, it is necessary to consider how women in specific locales and at specific…
Economic Wealth, Food Wealth, and Millet Consumption
Agricultural transitions among small farmer households are part of a broader process of the reorganization of everyday life. As agricultural regimes change and traditional crops are abandoned, the symbolic meanings associated with food and farming practices shift, reflecting the reorganization and reenvisioning of what it means to be a small farmer in a given place and at a given time. I examine this process through an analysis of the ways that f…
The political ecology of dietary transitions
Celebrity Big Brother, Inequality and Hindu Nationalism in India
Why Grow Cash Crops? Subsistence Farming and Crop Commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India
In this article, I provide an analysis of local decision making surrounding crop commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India. I argue that in the context of changes in the physical environment, cultivating tapioca (cassava) as a cash crop is a conscious decision made by small farmers based on their perceptions of environmental insecurity. Farmers understand market integration as key to coping with external, uncontrollable changes and to ful…
Anthropology and Participatory Research
Anthropologists working in the field of development may encounter a number of difficult ethical issues, although there is comparatively little literature that directly addresses such dilemmas. Potential concerns include questions of access to development and participation in projects and plans; questions about how research is used; issues of power differentials in the field; and the problem of ownership of knowledge. Participatory development res…
Considering social and material resources
Sexual identity, citizenship and medical power of attorney
Current analyses of sexual identity and citizenship offer complexity to debates about what it means to be a citizen in liberal democratic societies. However, thus far there is limited inclusion of ethnographic, narrative‐based research that addresses how lesbians and gay men experience and negotiate citizenship in their everyday lives. In this paper, I argue that attitudes about medical power of attorney are a lens through which we can examine ho…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
There has been increasing interest in many fields in examining the effects of social pressures and the lifestyles of individuals on health and illness. Relating such factors to syndromes and other illnesses is an important aspect to understanding the origins of many current problems, including chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, many individuals, both health professionals and lay people, do not appear to put much consideration into psychosoc…
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 in Past Populations
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a dominant autosomal disorder with a variety of clinical manifestations, mild to severe, including cutaneous growths and colourings, skeletal changes, and possible mental disabilities. There is evidence, in the form of historical medical records, that NF1 existed in past populations, and yet the condition does not appear to be of interest to paleopathological researchers. This may be due to a lack of interest in …
Automated pastures and the digital divide
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
The political ecology of dietary transitions
Considering social and material resources
Why Grow Cash Crops? Subsistence Farming and Crop Commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India
In this article, I provide an analysis of local decision making surrounding crop commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India. I argue that in the context of changes in the physical environment, cultivating tapioca (cassava) as a cash crop is a conscious decision made by small farmers based on their perceptions of environmental insecurity. Farmers understand market integration as key to coping with external, uncontrollable changes and to ful…
Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario
Drawing on farmers' lived experiences, I explore factors that shape agricultural persistence in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. Local farming is embedded in broader contexts and is place-based and specific. Agricultural persistence and resilience are shaped in part through individual factors, such as flexibility in response to change, the valuing of local agricultural heritage, and the determination to farm. However, attention to speci…
Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women’s Self-help Groups
In this article, I discuss women’s perceptions of and experiences with self-help groups and collective action in two agricultural communities in Tamil Nadu, India. Focusing on women’s social and political activities, particularly in terms of the struggle for the approval and construction of a new road, I argue that in these communities, self-help groups offered a conceptual space that encouraged collective actions, and contributed to processes of…
They go to the city, and sometimes they come back
In this paper, I examine what people's reasons for migrating from, and subsequently returning to, a rural community can tell us about the inter-related ways that rural and urban spaces are conceptualised. Drawing on research in a small, agricultural community in Paraguay, I explore two illustrations of women who are circular migrants, in order to demonstrate some of the potential circumstances, aspirations, and experiences that can shape decision…
Economic Wealth, Food Wealth, and Millet Consumption
Agricultural transitions among small farmer households are part of a broader process of the reorganization of everyday life. As agricultural regimes change and traditional crops are abandoned, the symbolic meanings associated with food and farming practices shift, reflecting the reorganization and reenvisioning of what it means to be a small farmer in a given place and at a given time. I examine this process through an analysis of the ways that f…
Sexual identity, citizenship and medical power of attorney
Current analyses of sexual identity and citizenship offer complexity to debates about what it means to be a citizen in liberal democratic societies. However, thus far there is limited inclusion of ethnographic, narrative‐based research that addresses how lesbians and gay men experience and negotiate citizenship in their everyday lives. In this paper, I argue that attitudes about medical power of attorney are a lens through which we can examine ho…
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 in Past Populations
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a dominant autosomal disorder with a variety of clinical manifestations, mild to severe, including cutaneous growths and colourings, skeletal changes, and possible mental disabilities. There is evidence, in the form of historical medical records, that NF1 existed in past populations, and yet the condition does not appear to be of interest to paleopathological researchers. This may be due to a lack of interest in …
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
There has been increasing interest in many fields in examining the effects of social pressures and the lifestyles of individuals on health and illness. Relating such factors to syndromes and other illnesses is an important aspect to understanding the origins of many current problems, including chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, many individuals, both health professionals and lay people, do not appear to put much consideration into psychosoc…
Anthropology and Participatory Research
Anthropologists working in the field of development may encounter a number of difficult ethical issues, although there is comparatively little literature that directly addresses such dilemmas. Potential concerns include questions of access to development and participation in projects and plans; questions about how research is used; issues of power differentials in the field; and the problem of ownership of knowledge. Participatory development res…
Considering social and material resources
Sexual identity, citizenship and medical power of attorney
Current analyses of sexual identity and citizenship offer complexity to debates about what it means to be a citizen in liberal democratic societies. However, thus far there is limited inclusion of ethnographic, narrative‐based research that addresses how lesbians and gay men experience and negotiate citizenship in their everyday lives. In this paper, I argue that attitudes about medical power of attorney are a lens through which we can examine ho…
Why Grow Cash Crops? Subsistence Farming and Crop Commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India
In this article, I provide an analysis of local decision making surrounding crop commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India. I argue that in the context of changes in the physical environment, cultivating tapioca (cassava) as a cash crop is a conscious decision made by small farmers based on their perceptions of environmental insecurity. Farmers understand market integration as key to coping with external, uncontrollable changes and to ful…
The political ecology of dietary transitions
Celebrity Big Brother, Inequality and Hindu Nationalism in India
Economic Wealth, Food Wealth, and Millet Consumption
Agricultural transitions among small farmer households are part of a broader process of the reorganization of everyday life. As agricultural regimes change and traditional crops are abandoned, the symbolic meanings associated with food and farming practices shift, reflecting the reorganization and reenvisioning of what it means to be a small farmer in a given place and at a given time. I examine this process through an analysis of the ways that f…
“Now it is an Easy Life”
Although coarse grains are considered underused and abandoned crops in much of India, they have gained increasing attention as having the potential to improve food security and positively affect small farmers' incomes. These trends offer the opportunity to examine the specific ways that contemporary declines in coarse grains are understood at the local level; in particular, it is necessary to consider how women in specific locales and at specific…
U.W.O.A.S Symposium Abstracts 2001
Changes to Agricultural Decision Making and Food Procurement Strategies in Rural Paraguay
This research note provides a preliminary discussion of changing agricultural and food procurement strategies in a smallholder farming community in Piribebuy District, Paraguay. Although considerable attention has been paid to the contemporary problems of soy agriculture in Paraguay, it is also important to engage with the experiences of smallholders who are not involved in or affected by soy cultivation, as this highlights farmers’ diverse every…
Agricultural and Dietary Meanings of Mandioca in Rural Paraguay
In this paper we use mandioca (Latin: Manihot esculenta) as a lens through which to examine agricultural and dietary continuity and change, and questions of food sovereignty practice in a rural, smallholder community in Paraguay. Mandioca is a preferred, staple food and a ubiquitous crop in the area, and the ways farmers conceptualize it as both a crop and as a dietary staple highlights local complexities when it comes to control over agricultura…
Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women’s Self-help Groups
In this article, I discuss women’s perceptions of and experiences with self-help groups and collective action in two agricultural communities in Tamil Nadu, India. Focusing on women’s social and political activities, particularly in terms of the struggle for the approval and construction of a new road, I argue that in these communities, self-help groups offered a conceptual space that encouraged collective actions, and contributed to processes of…
They go to the city, and sometimes they come back
In this paper, I examine what people's reasons for migrating from, and subsequently returning to, a rural community can tell us about the inter-related ways that rural and urban spaces are conceptualised. Drawing on research in a small, agricultural community in Paraguay, I explore two illustrations of women who are circular migrants, in order to demonstrate some of the potential circumstances, aspirations, and experiences that can shape decision…
Automated pastures and the digital divide
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario
Drawing on farmers' lived experiences, I explore factors that shape agricultural persistence in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. Local farming is embedded in broader contexts and is place-based and specific. Agricultural persistence and resilience are shaped in part through individual factors, such as flexibility in response to change, the valuing of local agricultural heritage, and the determination to farm. However, attention to speci…
Multi-Course and Faculty-Student Collaboration
In this paper, we reflect on the development, integration, and implementation of a course-based, primary data collection fieldwork project for undergraduate anthropology students at the University of Guelph. Integrated across three courses taught between January-April 2022, we developed this project to provide students with the opportunity to build research skills and to broaden their understandings of how anthropological methods can be mobilized…
Artificial Intelligence, Academic Misconduct, and the Borg
We explore playfully the capacity of an artificial intelligence text generation engine called GPT-3 to produce credible academic texts. Departing from a concern raised by colleagues about the possibility of using GPT-3 to cheat in academia, particularly at the undergraduate level, we interact with the GPT-3 interface as nerdy novices to learn what it could produce. The outputs from the GPT-3 text generation engine are incredible, at times surpris…
Forecasts
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