This research is focused on a group of vegan and vegan-curious individuals who are creating, building and maintaining a vegan community of practice in Houston, Texas. Through ethnographic methods, including participant observation, in-depth semi-structured interviews, surveys, quantitative analysis, and use of geographic information systems (GIS), this thesis considers motivations, group hierarchies, core and peripheral membership, practices, beliefs and construction of identity within the vegan community of practice. Further, concepts from the anthropology of religion are utilized in discourse analysis around conversion to ethical veganism, preaching, and religious-ethical beliefs around enlightenment and the principle of ahimsa. Utilizing subcultural studies and social movement theory, this thesis also shows how the vegan community of practice fits into vegan subcultures and the greater vegan lifestyle movement. Finally, as an applied project, deliverables to the client Vegan Society of PEACE includes both personal and structural barriers to veganism which are understood with respect to a race-conscious approach to veganism, and with special consideration given to the capitalist commodification of animals. Suggestions are given and strategies for growth of the community are highlighted at the end of this paper.

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Cooking and Dining in Times of War and Peace: Changing Contexts and Modes of Food Production, Preparation and Consumption in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mgr. Markéta Slavková Abstract (English) This project opens up the topic of armed conflict and subsequent post-conflict development in the Former Yugoslavia from a non-traditional perspective - that of the anthropology of food. At the centre of attention there stand the ways in which the production, preparation and consumption of food were and are carried out in Srebrenica, BiH in the context of the dramatic changes that the region has undergone over the last few decades. Food is the precondition of reproduction, a primary form of interaction with the world, a mediator of socialization, a sign of identity and social cohesion but also a tool of power. In this sense, Farquhar notes that the "mantra" 'You are what you eat,' continues to be thematized by social sciences (Farquhar, 2006: 146). On the other hand, the question of the relationship between social actors and their "daily bread" in conditions of starvation and overall material scarcity in wartime has not been satisfyingly answered. This project, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, addresses these issues more closely, affording greater insight into them.

Cooking and Dining in Times of War and Peace: Changing Contexts and Modes of Food Production, Preparation and Consumption in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mgr. Markéta Slavková Abstract (English) This project opens up the topic of armed conflict and subsequent post-conflict development in the Former Yugoslavia from a non-traditional perspective - that of the anthropology of food. At the centre of attention there stand the ways in which the production, preparation and consumption of food were and are carried out in Srebrenica, BiH in the context of the dramatic changes that the region has undergone over the last few decades. Food is the precondition of reproduction, a primary form of interaction with the world, a mediator of socialization, a sign of identity and social cohesion but also a tool of power. In this sense, Farquhar notes that the "mantra" 'You are what you eat,' continues to be thematized by social sciences (Farquhar, 2006: 146). On the other hand, the question of the relationship between social actors and their "daily bread" in conditions of starvation and overall material scarcity in wartime has not been satisfyingly answered. This project, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, addresses these issues more closely, affording greater insight into them.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese LIGIA AMPARO DA SILVA SANTOS.pdf: 1158547 bytes, checksum: 0cd5bfed87bde8db0bf00f18229c6bbb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study investigates how women and men experiment, feel and act on the phenomena related to the body and eating practices as well as the relation of these with the urban space. The first scenario of this study was Salvador City in Bahia, Brazil. Semi- structured interviews with 24 women and men from different social classes, and documental analysis were used as methodological resources. The transformation and permanence of these phenomena which have taken place in the Salvador city in the last decades will be also approached. The starting point is the idea of the construction of new bodies under the discourse about the contemporary body slim, healthy and light - and the news disciplines of eating, as well as the transformation of the culinary practices and the use and interpretation of the supplies used to the construction of the light taste is taking place in the Salvador city. From these processes, the body, the eating and the food are reinterpreted by the individuals with the aim of promote a novel adaptation to these new corporal and eating orders in construction. It is related to a process of lightização of the existence that it does not necessary exclude others processes: the food traditions are reinvented and it is important part of the corporal and food scenario. It also discusses about how these movements are in consonance to the international trends related to these phenomena and also to the modernization processes which takes place in Salvador city, which started in 1950s and increased in the last two decades. In this way, it considers that the modernization in the space of the city it is not only the modernization of the architectural complexes or the industrial enterprises, for example, but also the modernization of the bodies, their corporal and alimentary practices. Therefore, this study discusses these phenomena in the ordinary quotidian of the individuals in the city relating the local, national and the global processes as well as the tradition, diversity and modernity trends / O presente estudo investigou como mulheres e homens experimentam, sentem e agem em relação aos fenômenos vinculados às práticas corporais e às práticas alimentares, assim como as suas relações com o espaço urbano. O estudo teve como primeiro cenário a cidade de Salvador da Bahia e utilizou como recurso metodológico entrevistas semi-estruturadas como 24 mulheres e homens pertencentes às camadas médias e populares, aliado à análises documentais. Discute também as transformações e permanências destes fenômenos que têm ocorrido na cidade de Salvador nas últimas décadas. Parte do pressuposto de que está em curso na cidade a idéia da construção de novos corpos sob a édige do discurso do corpo contemporâneo magro, saudável e light e ainda de novas disciplinas alimentares o comer light , como ainda uma transformação nas práticas culinárias e do uso e interpretação dos gêneros alimentícios utilizados na construção de um gosto light. A partir destes processos, o corpo, o comer e a comida são reinterpretados pelos sujeitos com o intuito de se adequarem a esta nova ordem corporal e alimentar em construção. Trata-se de um processo de lightização da existência que não necessariamente excluem outras formas: as tradições alimentares são também reinventadas fazendo parte ativamente deste cenário alimentar e corporal. Ressalta-se ainda que estes movimentos estão em consonância não só com as tendências mundiais relacionadas aos fenômenos abordados, mas também com os processos modernizantes pelos quais passa a cidade de Salvador, iniciados nos meados dos anos 1950 e intensificados nas duas últimas décadas. Desta maneira, concebe-se que a modernização citadina não se traduz apenas na modernização dos seus espaços, conjuntos arquitetônicos e parques industriais, se traduz também na modernização dos corpos, de suas práticas corporais e alimentares. Deste modo, o estudo procura compreender tais fenômenos no cotidiano ordinário dos sujeitos dentro da cidade inter-relacionando o local, o nacional e o mundial bem como o jogo entre tradição, diversidade e modernidade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese LIGIA AMPARO DA SILVA SANTOS.pdf: 1158547 bytes, checksum: 0cd5bfed87bde8db0bf00f18229c6bbb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study investigates how women and men experiment, feel and act on the phenomena related to the body and eating practices as well as the relation of these with the urban space. The first scenario of this study was Salvador City in Bahia, Brazil. Semi- structured interviews with 24 women and men from different social classes, and documental analysis were used as methodological resources. The transformation and permanence of these phenomena which have taken place in the Salvador city in the last decades will be also approached. The starting point is the idea of the construction of new bodies under the discourse about the contemporary body slim, healthy and light - and the news disciplines of eating, as well as the transformation of the culinary practices and the use and interpretation of the supplies used to the construction of the light taste is taking place in the Salvador city. From these processes, the body, the eating and the food are reinterpreted by the individuals with the aim of promote a novel adaptation to these new corporal and eating orders in construction. It is related to a process of lightização of the existence that it does not necessary exclude others processes: the food traditions are reinvented and it is important part of the corporal and food scenario. It also discusses about how these movements are in consonance to the international trends related to these phenomena and also to the modernization processes which takes place in Salvador city, which started in 1950s and increased in the last two decades. In this way, it considers that the modernization in the space of the city it is not only the modernization of the architectural complexes or the industrial enterprises, for example, but also the modernization of the bodies, their corporal and alimentary practices. Therefore, this study discusses these phenomena in the ordinary quotidian of the individuals in the city relating the local, national and the global processes as well as the tradition, diversity and modernity trends / O presente estudo investigou como mulheres e homens experimentam, sentem e agem em relação aos fenômenos vinculados às práticas corporais e às práticas alimentares, assim como as suas relações com o espaço urbano. O estudo teve como primeiro cenário a cidade de Salvador da Bahia e utilizou como recurso metodológico entrevistas semi-estruturadas como 24 mulheres e homens pertencentes às camadas médias e populares, aliado à análises documentais. Discute também as transformações e permanências destes fenômenos que têm ocorrido na cidade de Salvador nas últimas décadas. Parte do pressuposto de que está em curso na cidade a idéia da construção de novos corpos sob a édige do discurso do corpo contemporâneo magro, saudável e light e ainda de novas disciplinas alimentares o comer light , como ainda uma transformação nas práticas culinárias e do uso e interpretação dos gêneros alimentícios utilizados na construção de um gosto light. A partir destes processos, o corpo, o comer e a comida são reinterpretados pelos sujeitos com o intuito de se adequarem a esta nova ordem corporal e alimentar em construção. Trata-se de um processo de lightização da existência que não necessariamente excluem outras formas: as tradições alimentares são também reinventadas fazendo parte ativamente deste cenário alimentar e corporal. Ressalta-se ainda que estes movimentos estão em consonância não só com as tendências mundiais relacionadas aos fenômenos abordados, mas também com os processos modernizantes pelos quais passa a cidade de Salvador, iniciados nos meados dos anos 1950 e intensificados nas duas últimas décadas. Desta maneira, concebe-se que a modernização citadina não se traduz apenas na modernização dos seus espaços, conjuntos arquitetônicos e parques industriais, se traduz também na modernização dos corpos, de suas práticas corporais e alimentares. Deste modo, o estudo procura compreender tais fenômenos no cotidiano ordinário dos sujeitos dentro da cidade inter-relacionando o local, o nacional e o mundial bem como o jogo entre tradição, diversidade e modernidade