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Résumé L'article analyse un choix de lettres professionnelles et privées échangées dans le cadre de l'enquête américaine menée en Irlande de 1930 à 1936. Cette correspondance, que l'auteur soumet à une approche narrative, vient enrichir l'historiographie de la première visite en Europe, dans les années 1930, d'une équipe d'anthropologues et d'archéologues de l'université Harvard participant à une étude pluridisciplinaire de la « société moderne ». Elle permet non seulement de mettre en évidence une nouvelle stratégie de recherche inaugurée par deux anthropologues, Conrad Arensberg et Solon Kimball, mais aussi d'entendre la voix des informateurs et de faire apparaître, dans toute sa complexité, la relation qu'ils entretiennent avec le chercheur.

This paper presents an empirical model for researching women's self and social identities. The model was devised as a theoretical and methodological framework to assist the author to recognize self-identity and social identity in single women's narratives of their lives. Self-identity is understood as our own sense of ourselves as persons while social identity is categorizations of us by others. For those interested in researching the consequences of strong ideologies (such as familism) on women's identities, or for recognizing resistance and understanding the development of new conceptions of womanhood, an empirical model which focuses our research attention on the self-identity of individual women is helpful.

In this article, the authors explore the consequences of an American 1930s classic anthropological study for a contemporary rural community in the west of Ireland. The contribution of family, kin, and community relations to sustaining a rural way of life was the primary focus of Arensberg and Kimball's study of Irish farm families published as Family and Community in Ireland. Through the frame of a collaborative community research project with an artist, sociologist, and the descendents of the families written about, we present an account of a research project based on Kimball's 1930s field diary that provided an opportunity for community members to tell their own story of family and community in the 21st century. Deploying a narrative inquiry approach, the power of local stories to interrupt dominant narratives of family and community is explored.

AbstractSuccessful collaboration is an art form but can be developed through several smart practices. The authors discuss the meaning of collaboration, stakeholder perceptions of collaborative partnerships, and the experience of Summer Scholars, a nonprofit community organization that successfully uses collaboration to accomplish its mission. Further, they offer strategies for successful collaborative efforts.

AbstractThis study contributes to the growing literature on household resource allocation across time by examining monthly cycles of food pantry visitation. This study uses 13 years of data from over 40,000 households who visited the Food Bank for Larimer County in Northern Colorado. Analysis reveals that pantry visitation fluctuates dramatically by day of the month and is highest at the end of the month among the general pantry client population. Further analysis examines these monthly cycles with consideration for the Colorado SNAP distribution schedule, with results that suggest pantry visitation increases when SNAP benefits run out.JEL CLASSIFICATIOND15 (Intertemporal Household Choice); Q18 (Food Policy)

For many years Irish rural sociology came to be defined in relation to Arensberg and Kimball's celebrated anthropological study, Family and Community in Ireland, for which fieldwork was undertaken in Clare between 1932 and 1934. It has been observed that ethnographers in Ireland post-Arensberg and Kimball were strongly inclined to take the community as their unit of analysis, focus their analysis of social life on kinship and social networks, and adopt structural functionalism as their theoretical model of local society. The essay republished here in abridged form accompanied the re-publication of Family and Community in Ireland in 2001. It critically examines the intellectual and political background to Arensberg and Kimball's ethnographic fieldwork in rural Clare, the manner in which their research unfolded and the subsequent reception of their published work over a period of some sixty years.

AbstractThis article examines the determinants and impacts of rising market concentration in food retail. We argue that the differentiated nature of food retail complicates the common assumption that rising market concentration is evidence of growing market power and rising prices. We provide a theoretical explanation for rising market concentration but relatively unchanging market power and prices. We also provide empirical data on prices, gross margins, profit margins, and demand elasticities to support our hypothesis that rising fixed costs have been the main driver of rising market concentration with little impact on market power and prices.

AbstractWe investigate consumers' willingness to pay premiums for environmentally sustainably produced meat and plant‐based meat substitutes. We conducted a randomized control study coupled with an incentive‐compatible experimental auction. Treatment consisted of information nudges concerning the environmental and health externalities of meat production and consumption. Results show that demand for sustainably produced beef and a plant‐based meat substitute is inelastic. We elicited participants' time preferences to analyze whether consumer behavior varies with their time preference. Present‐biased treated female participants were willing to pay a significantly lower premium for sustainably produced beef compared to the present‐biased control female participants. Future‐biased treated participants had a higher probability of being willing to pay a premium for a plant‐based meat substitute compared to the control group. We discuss the policy implications and relevance of information nudging, such as labeling, and how the effect of such nudging varies with participant characteristics.