Review: Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
Page 99 of my dissertation drops the reader into what I call a “technological (dis)connective happening.” It captures a moment during the pandemic, when offline events moved online.…
Dr. Vijay Kumar Bodh Assistant Archaeologist Archaeological Survey of India Shimla Circle, Himachal Pradesh vijay.bodh@yahoo.in Human…
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kirin is joining…
Klimadiagramme sind mehr als visualisierte Daten, sie entwerfen ihre eigenen Narrative und prägen unser visuelles Verständnis der Klimakrise. Birgit Schneider analysiert, wie die Bilder emotionale Zug…
The last adventure and post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc is about my tour of the sake breweries in Saijō-chō in Higashihiroshima. I left the big…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm…
This is the third post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. The day’s main event (7/8/25): the baseball game between the host Hiroshima Carp and the visiting…
-Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick How could language endangerment, which many scholars see as an alarming problem, be largely invisible to the people whose languages are being…
-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names to assert that…
Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression -Danny Begg Tik Toks, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram reels are all examples of short-form video content that is ubiquitous across social media….
-Joseph Wilson The following is an (lightly edited) excerpt from Joseph Wilson’s forthcoming book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines to be published by University…
-Sarah Muir & Courtney Handman Four times a year, Anthropology News puts out calls for submissions on a particular theme. The current theme of “in/visibility” prompted an incredible…
The latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi explores the socio-political nature of architecture and urban…
As Argentina’s economic crisis worsens, an anthropologist discusses the biological consequences of inadequate food—and why the country’s community kitchens need support. THE PRICE TO EAT It’s the afte…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
This post is the second of the Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. In keeping with my recent and ongoing tachinomi project, I wanted to experience the social/drinking nightlife of…
The organizers of the C-REX and VOX-Pol PhD summer school present key takeaways on the topics of methods, personal safe…
Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States toward China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US…
“Seguridad tiene muchas acepciones y formas. Hay seguridad en saber que uno tiene una probabilidad más pequeña de recibir un flechazo. Y está la seguridad que proporciona saber…
Wir trauern um Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jensen und Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin. Prof. Hauser-Schäublin verstarb am 5. Juni 2025 im Alter von 80 Jahren. Neben ihrer Arbeit am…
by Clare Wiznura The 2007 video game BioShock explores what might happen when individuals have the option to keep all the fruits of their labour, free from taxes…
As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin Red Guide and how it became the ultimate…