Anthropology after November 8th: On race, denial, and the work ahead
For some people, the election that just took place might seem like just another choice between the lesser of two evils. One more election that we all learn…
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Veganism, conversion, and adequation: How to make a strange diet seem familiar
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Continuing with the Anthropology #22 Food issue, this next essay is from Aimee J. Hosemann, who…
Evangelizing in the Garden: Conservative Christian efforts to Convert Non-Believers via Urban Agriculture in US Cities
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the Anthropologies #22 Food issue we have this essay from Chhaya Kolavalli. –R.A.…
The Taste of Nostalgia: Vanishing Flavors from the Ancestral Japanese Village
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Next in line for the Anthropologies #22 Food Issue, we have this essay by Christopher Laurent.…
Local Food, Process, and Social Change
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The next installment of the Anthropologies #22 Issue on food comes from Allison Perrett, who is…
Colorado Cuisine: From Traditional Food to Porno-Molecular Gastronomy
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the anthropologies #22 food issue, we have an essay by Fernando Valerio Holguín.*–R.A.…
ArXiv for anthropology: @SocArXiv + #AAA2016 = Open Access Strikes Back
Cliffs Notes version of this post: @SocArXiv is a Green Open Access digital repository that is currently being developed for the social sciences. I think this is a…
Eating with Strangers: Bringing an Anthropological Perspective to the Table
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The anthropologies food issue continues! Up next we have an essay from cultural anthropologist Christy Shields-Argelès,…
A seat at the bar: Issues of race and class in the world of specialty coffee
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the Anthropologies #22 series. For the third installment of the anthropologies food issue, we have an essay from William Cotter…
Anthropologies #22: Reflections on Food in Food Research
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The second installment of the anthropologies issue on food comes from Zofia Boni, a food anthropologist.…
Anthropologies #22: Some thoughts on food, animals, and anthropology
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Here it is: the long-awaited first installment of the anthropologies issue on food. We kick off…
Anthropologies #22 Call for Submissions: The anthropology of food!
Burgers, Plate 4. Photograph by Thomas Hawk, 2009. Everyone eats, and there are cultural and social meanings embedded in the food that we consume. This issue of anthropologies…
Reader Survey Results Part 3: 95 percent of you never (or rarely) comment!
Why do you comment on Savage Minds. Or why don’t you comment on Savage Minds? Are the comments good? Do they suck? Do you even care? Can internet…
Anthropologies #21: Weather changes people: stretching to encompass material sky dynamics in our ethnography
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Heid Jerstad brings our climate change issue to a close with this thoughtful essay. Jerstad (BA…
Anthropologies #21: Global Warming is not a Crisis
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #21 series. For the next installment of the anthropologies issue on climate change, we have a counterpoint essay…
Anthropologies #21: Betwixt and Between: Geological Phase Transition, Adaptive Co-Management, and Anthropology
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series. The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is…
Anthropologies #21: The Challenge of Motivated Reasoning: Science, Education, and Changing Climates
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Next up we have an essay about climate change and education from Joseph Henderson and David…
Anthropologies #21: Why do we need to teach climate change in anthropology?
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next installment in the climate change series comes from Katherine J. Johnson, who is currently…
Anthropologies #21: ‘Patabea se bariu’–Rethinking environmental change
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next essay comes from Elena Burgos-Martínez, who is currently completing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology…
Anthropologies #21: Is There Hope for an Anthropocene Anthropology?
Up next for this issue we have Todd Sanders and Elizabeth Hall. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively…
Anthropologies #21: Agricultural Adaptations and their Socio-Political Parameters: Social Responses to Climate Change in Ghana and South Sudan
The next installment for the anthropologies issue on climate change comes from Douglas La Rose. La Rose is the regional coordinator for the Agency for Technical Cooperation and…
Anthropologies #21: Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
To kick off this issue, we begin with Sean Seary’s excellent overview of recent literature about anthropology’s engagement with climate. This review originally appeared on Anthropology Rep…
Anthropologies #21: Climate Change Issue (Introduction)
For the latest issue of anthropologies, we’re taking a look at the ever contentious subject of climate change. Over the next week or so, we will be posting…
The social costs of export agriculture in San Quintin, Baja California–An Interview with Christian Zlolniski
Workers in the fields, San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico. Image courtesy of Christian Zlolniski. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to interview Christian Zlolniski about his ongoing…