Not quite your grandmother's jam: Place, time, and identity in constructing a home-canning community of practice

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dc.contributor.advisorEnglebretson, Roberten_US
dc.creatorHoecker, Jenniferen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T00:34:24Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-03-08T00:34:24Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis contributes to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of food studies. Taking a qualitative, discourse-analytic perspective, I analyze the discursive strategies employed by a group of home canners in the construction of their community of practice. The community of practice framework (Wenger 1998) posits three defining characteristics: mutual engagement of participants, a jointly negotiated enterprise, and shared repertoires. Drawing on narrative analysis and adopting an anti-essentialist view of identity, I examine the way members use the discursive construction of time and place as symbolic resources in the formulation of their identities and in the maintenance of their community. Directions for further research into the complex relationships among language, identity, and food are recommended.en_US
dc.format.extent92 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS LING. 2012 HOECKERen_US
dc.identifier.citationHoecker, Jennifer. "Not quite your grandmother's jam: Place, time, and identity in constructing a home-canning community of practice." (2012) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70263">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70263</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalHoeckerJen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/70263en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectSocial sciencesen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectCultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectSocial researchen_US
dc.titleNot quite your grandmother's jam: Place, time, and identity in constructing a home-canning community of practiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentLinguisticsen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US
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