North American Dialogue

Non-Americans Researching Mainstream American Culture (MACnet)
Dieter Haller

A regional network on Mainstream American Culture was launched at the 2006 Conference of the European Association for Social Anthropology. Aspects to be classified as "mainstream" or "All American" such as cheerleaders, cheesecakes, shopping malls, baseball and the like have not been of anthropological interest in Europe or other parts of the world. The objective of MACNet is not only to address the last blind regional spot of Non-American anthropologies by encouraging field-based or archival research on MAC, but also to bring together existing scholarship. This is important because it will help us to close a knowledge gap on this specific, world-affecting region, and will also contribute to our understanding of the creation of "the West" in academia.

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