Fish as Food: Lifestyle and a Sustainable Future
Fish dinner. Photo credit: David Beriss SAFN member Ellen Messer has written to us here at SAFN World Headquarters about the virtual International Conference on the Anthropology of…
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Just Food: Because It Is Never Just Food
David Beriss Today was day one of this year’s best little food conference. Organized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food and…
SAFN Student Awards!
Rhubarb and radishes! Photo by David Beriss The deadline (June 15) for SAFN’s annual graduate and undergraduate paper awards is fast approaching. If you are a student, now…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 26, 2021
Burger and fries, The Hamburger Foundation, Geneva. Photo by David Beriss. David Beriss Do you teach courses related to the anthropology of food and nutrition? From intro courses…
Curative Cuisines of Cambodia
Editor’s Note: We recently published the winners of our first annual SAFN photo contest. There are, of course, interesting stories and research projects tied to the photos, which…
Anthropology Day Photo Contest Winners!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the big winners for the first ever SAFN Anthropology Day Photo contest. Before I make the big announcement, I want to…
Happy Anthropology Day!
David Beriss The big day is here. Today is Anthropology Day! Every year the AAA has organized this, we have completely forgotten to acknowledge it. But not this…
Flat Tuesday
Leah Chase Float House, New Orleans, 2/15/2021. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, and it is usually the occasion for the big blow…
Reminder! Anthro Day Photo Contest!
Boucherie, St. Bernard Parish, March 13, 2016. Photo by David Beriss Don’t forget to submit your food anthropology photos for the SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The deadline…
The UC Berkeley – 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship
SAFN board member Scott Barton sent in this great opportunity for journalists who write about food systems. A lot of people with backgrounds in anthropology become journalists, so…
Review: Seafood: Ocean to the Plate
Shingo Hamada and Richard Wilk, Seafood: Ocean to the Plate, Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Routledge. 2019. Pp. 138. ISBN: 9781138191877 (paperback). Dav…
Black Food Matters Panel Available on YouTube
Jennifer Jo Thompson Like me, you might have missed SAFN’s Black Food Matters Panel at Raising Our Voices—especially, since it was happening right about the same time that…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 28, 2021
David Beriss The pandemic grinds on and we read. We read and we listen to podcasts, which proliferate like tribbles, making it impossible to keep up with all…
Anthropology Day Photo Contest
If you have food anthropology related photos that you want to be famous, SAFN wants to hear from you! We have decided to hold a food anthropology photography competition…
Hunger, Religion, and Public Anthropology
Betsy Taylor Is feeding the hungry, a key moral value in religious teachings across cultures? I was recently asked this by a pediatrician concerned about child hunger in…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2021
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
SAFN Award Winner Interviews
SAFN recently announced the 2020 winners of our student awards. The undergraduate Christine Wilson paper award went to Adele Woodmansee, for her paper “‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’:…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right 2020 Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2020 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Gifty Dzorka from the University of Manitoba for her research project “Corporate Agricultural…
Iowa’s Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Land for Food Production in the U.S.
Paul Durrenberger In Grapes of Wrath American writer John Steinbeck told the disheartening story of defeated farmers in 1939 Oklahoma. A bulldozer demolishes a shanty as the family…
Reflections on Taste Socialization
Joan Gross While reading a story to my two grandkids over Skype, I was struck by how tastes become culturally normalized. It was a Sesame Street book and…
Christine Wilson 2020 Graduate Award Winner
SAFN is happy to announce that the 2020 winner of the Christine Wilson Award for a graduate student is Terese Gagnon, of Syracuse University, for her essay, “’There…
Christine Wilson 2020 Undergraduate Award Winner!
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele Woodmansee of Harvard University for her paper “’It…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
We are happy to announce the first winner of the new SAFN Student Research Award. This annual award supports the research phase of an original project focused on…
JUST FOOD: because it is never just food
Call for Abstracts: 2021 Joint Annual Conference of: The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Canadian Association fo…