The author uses the convergence between his work on emerging evangelical movements and agri-culinary movements to consider “place” as a central topic of a comparative ethnography of late modernity. He is also utilizing the concept of place to point to some valuable angles for future ethnographic research.
The author uses ethnographic examples to discuss these convergences between emerging evangelicals and food activists through the analytical categories of cultural critique, value of authenticity, and the race-class entanglements in relation to place. The author argues that three future categories that hold analytical promise for ethnographic research are: senses of place, temporality, and cultural production.
