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Language and Materiality in Global Capitalism by Shankar, Shalini, Cavanaugh, Jillian R

“…Language and materiality have long been considered separate phenomena, but an increasing interest in their convergence suggests the productive potential of…”
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Trash talk: Language as waste practice by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…Language, through its ability to categorize and its performative effects, does not just describe what is waste and what is not: it helps to create, maintain,…”
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Documenting subjects: Performativity and audit culture in food production in northern Italy by CAVANAUGH, JILLIAN R.

“…ABSTRACT Linguistic labor in both verbal and documentary forms is essential to contemporary capitalist production, occurring across commodity‐chain processes…”
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Producing Authenticity in Global Capitalism: Language, Materiality, and Value by Cavanaugh, Jillian R., Shankar, Shalini

“…In this article, we bring together two distinct ethnographic cases of capitalist production–food producers in northern Italy and Asian American advertising…”
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Talk as work: Economic sociability in Northern Italian heritage food production by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…This article analyzes talk occurring within direct marketing contexts (farmers markets) as a form of economic sociability: interaction among people and goods…”
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Linguistic Economies: Commentary on Language Policy Special Issue “Policing for Commodification: Turning Communicative Resources into Commodities” by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…Although the relationship between language and economic activity has long been a topic of scholarly research, much of it building on the work of Raymond…”
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Food and Language: Production, Consumption, and Circulation of Meaning and Value by Karrebæk, Martha Sif, Riley, Kathleen C, Cavanaugh, Jillian R

“…We interrogate the many ways that language and food intersect. Food and its uses provide setting and structure for language, just as language and its uses…”
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The Blacksmith’s Feet: Embodied Entextualization in Northern Italian Vernacular Poetry by CAVANAUGH, JILLIAN R.

“…Vernacular poetry is generally evaluated according to culturally specific aesthetic standards, what anthropologists call ethnopoetics. This article offers…”
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What Happened to Social Facts? by Ho, Karen, Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…For anthropologists, truth and facts have long been complicated notions, at least since the ethnographic turn. While the editors are deeply troubled by…”
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Entering into politics: Interdiscursivity, register, stance, and vernacular in northern Italy by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…This article focuses on how specific types of language use connect socially, geographically, and temporally distant speakers and span face-to-face and mediated…”
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Making Salami, Producing Bergamo: The Transformation of Value by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…Recently, in Italy and other European countries, certain foods have become markers of cultural continuity and economic possibility as various actors negotiate…”
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Turning Passion into Profession: A History of Craft Beer in Italy by Fastigi, Matteo, Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…This article investigates the Italian craft brewing revolution, a florescence of small-scale, artisanal beer production that began in the late 1990s. This…”
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What Words Bring to the Table: The Linguistic Anthropological Toolkit as Applied to the Study of Food by Cavanaugh, Jillian R., Riley, Kathleen C., Jaffe, Alexandra, Jourdan, Christine, Karrebæk, Martha, Paugh, Amy

“…This article offers an introduction to the methods being developed by scholars interested in studying food and language as interrelated phenomena. First, we…”
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Little Women and Vital Champions: Gendered Language Shift in a Northern Italian Town by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…The connection of language to class is clearly implicated in the language shift in progress in the northern Italian town of Bergamo. Gender also plays an…”
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Accent matters: Material consequences of sounding local in northern Italy by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…In this article, I discuss accents as signs of ‘things in the world,’ social practices whose forms and functions matter. I move beyond the common tendency to…”
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Remembering and Forgetting: Ideologies of Language Loss in a Northern Italian Town by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…Speakers' stories about language shift in Bergamo,a Northern Italian town,are reflective of larger sociocultural changes and negotiations over tradition. The…”
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Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork by Brad Weiss Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. 288 pp: Book Reviews by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance. ArjunAppadurai. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. viii + 180 pp by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

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The Blacksmith’s Feet by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…Vernacular poetry is generally evaluated according to culturally specific aesthetic standards, what anthropologists call ethnopoetics. This article offers…”
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Mol, Annemarie. Eating in theory. 208 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2021. £21.99 (paper) by Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

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