BOOK TALK | GIỚI THIỆU SÁCH

      2022 – 2023

PGS.TS. Annuska Derks

(Trường Đại học Zurich, Thụy Sĩ)

Fragrant Frontier: Spice Stories from the Vietnamese Uplands

Biên ải thơm: Những câu chuyện về gia vị từ vùng cao Việt Nam 

09h – 11h, thứ 5, 22 tháng 09 năm 2022

Phòng hội thảo 314 nhà A

Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn,

336 Nguyễn Trãi, Q. Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội.

Ngôn ngữ trình bày: Tiếng Anh

Tóm tắt

In this talk, Associate Professor Derks will present her recently published book Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands (co-edited by Sarah Turner, Annuska Derks and Jean-François Rousseau). Spices have connected and transformed the environments, politics, economies and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. Although we may keep a variety of spices on our kitchen shelves, their origins and trade routes often remain obscure. This book traces the roots and routes of three highly valued spices from the Sino-Vietnamese uplands, i.e. cardamom, cinnamon and star anise. It investigates the livelihoods of the ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, follows the commodity chains from farms to global supermarkets, and examines the commoditization of these distinctive crops.

Về diễn giả

Annuska Derks is Associate Professor and co-director of the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich. She is a social anthropologist specializing in Southeast Asia, in particular in Vietnam and Cambodia. Her research interests include social transformation and development, migration, gender, global spice chains and the social lives of everyday things. Her newest research focuses on energy and the making of innovation in Vietnam. Among her recent publications are the co-edited volumes Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands (NIAS Press, 2022), Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation: How to Make Sense of Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and ‘Beyond the State? The moral turn of development in Southeast Asia’ (special issue of South East Asia Research, 2020)

Thông tin chi tiết xin liên hệ: TS. Nguyễn Vũ Hoàng anthropology@ussh.edu.vn | www.nhanhoc.edu.vn | https://www.facebook.com/Khoanhanhoc/