Opening the lunchbox: Distinction From the School Playground

Through an ethnographic investigation of school lunchboxes, this paper explores how health, gender, class and ethnicity are understood through children’s interactions. It examines the way children construct, affirm and/or challenge social distinctions and issues of inclusion/exclusion by looking at the contents, concepts, narrative and activities related to the consumption and sharing of their lunch food [...]

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Intracultural Dynamics of Capoeira Training in Brazil

Class was in session. I was playing the atabaque drum—a freestanding upright leatherhead drum with a wooden body and a metal stand. To my right was a group of student musicians who, on their respective instruments, were each playing rhythms to accompany the other students performing Capoeira movement. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian form of fight-dancing [...]

Fiji’s Red Wave Art Movement

This paper draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture between 2004 and 2008. It describes the formation of the Oceania Centre and discusses certain “Red Wave” artists. In illustrating how their style of art is learned and produced, the paper considers the shared stylistic repertoires thought to define such [...]

Reconstructing Minority Identities in 21st Century Japan

In 1968, Shintaro Ishihara (now the governor of Tokyo) stated, ‘there is no other country like Japan, people who are virtually mono-ethnic, who speak the same language which is like no other country’s and which has a unique culture’(Oguma 1995:358). 40 years later, similar statement was still repeated by Taro Aso (then the foreign minister [...]

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Teaching Anthropology in Schools, U.K. (A) Levels

In the autumn of 1910, anthropology was offered for the first time as a subject examined at the Advanced (A) level of the General Certificate of Education to pupils in their last two years of secondary education in England. It was not the first time the subject had been offered in English schools, for the [...]

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