The St. Magnus Street Tapes
A reflection of 40 years of intermittent ethnographic research on the Shetland Islands. This is an experiment in intimate ethnography. Each episode of the "A-sides" follows a single theme. The same theme is explored on the "B-sides" but through contemporary fiction based on a tale found in Lawrence Tulloch's Shetland Folk Tales.
The St. Magnus Street Tapes
Episode 5 - A-Side: Community
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Jonathan Church
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Season 1
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Episode 5
When I was being trained, if you can call it that, as an anthropologist years ago, there was a focus on kinship and family, however, constructed, because, in these relations, it was imagined, were conjured obligations of gift-giving, aid, and favors, what were called forms of reciprocity. From these networks of kin and reciprocity threads of trust were spun and extended, models for a spiderweb of relationship, of bonding and bridging capital, out of which community was made - a rosy picture. Over the past half-century, anthropology has now a darker view,
The Saint Magnus Street Tapes are a Confabulated Communities Production. Produced, written, and narrated by Jonathan Church.
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