Despite its now common currency the anthropological concept of morality remains underdeveloped. One anthropologist who has made several important attempts to work out a more precise theoretical ...concept of morality is Joel Robbins. In his most recent contribution to this endeavor Robbins addresses the tension in anthropology between what he calls the morality of reproduction and the morality of freedom. In this article, I suggest an alternative solution to the problem of conceiving the distinction between a nonconsciously enacted morality and the conscious awareness of ethical dilemmas and moral questioning. I will support this distinction with ethnographic and life-historical material from my research on the moral lives of some Muscovites.
Freezers full of gold Bartlett, Flora Mary
Kulturella perspektiv,
2023, Letnik:
32
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The modern chest freezer has significantly altered food storage practices in Sweden. Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Arjeplog (rural Northern Sweden/ Swedish Sápmi), this article ...investigates how the chest freezer plays a crucial role in more-than-human networks of food, sustainability, and living well in the local community. Among participants of this ethnographic study, most of the protein stored in freezers was hunted or foraged from the local landscape, and participants felt “rich and content” with freezers full of “natural” food. Building on theories of new materiality and the more-than-human, I examine the relationships between moose, freezer, forest, and the body, arguing that the chest freezer is not a static object of symbolic meaning but a vibrant actor in these networks of “the good life”. This paper is an empirically grounded contribution to studies of freezing practices and landscape relations in Northern Sweden.
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