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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 FINDING CREOLE IDENTITIES IN MARTINIQUE AND PARIS -- 2 WHAT IS THE PRICE OF FRENCHNESS? -- 3 BETRAYED ANTILLES, BROKEN FRENCH PROMISES -- 4 BOUDIN, RHUM, AND ZOUK: PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL CONFRONTATION -- 5 CAN MAGIC FIX A BROKEN CULTURE? -- 6 IN THIS WORLD, BUT NOT OF IT -- 7 CONCLUSION: CREOLIZING FRANCE -- Glossary -- References -- Index

This article examines the question of why local food has become, for many activists and scholars, a core concept for understanding food systems and globalization and for challenging systems of injustice and inequality. I begin with the French concept of terroir, which is often translated as the "taste of place," and examine why this term, part of France's cultural common sense, is difficult to implement in other places. I then consider efforts to use local foods to grapple with the forces of globalization and efforts to use ideas about local food to moralize capitalism and humanize food distribution systems. I examine the relationship between movements for food sovereignty and food justice with local foods. Finally, I explore the uses of local foods as part of efforts to develop, assert, and sometimes market local, regional, or national identities.

Reckoning with Homelessness. Kim Hopper. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 271 pp.

Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other's societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar "others" to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Each of the eleven articles presents fresh research on the tension between a republican tradition in France that has long denied the legitimacy of acknowledging racial difference and a lived reality in which racial prejudice shaped popular views about foreigners, Jews, immigrants, and colonial people. Several authors also examine efforts to combat racism since the 1970s