Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
The world’s oldest bread crumbs found to date were excavated from the stone-lined fireplace in the center of this photo. Alexis Pantos It’s mid-August in 2013, and we…
Tag: agriculture
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 12, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Carbon Farmers Work to Clean Up the World’s Mess
It was a bright afternoon in March of 2011 when I met Pedro (a pseudonym) on his organic farm in the mountains of Costa Rica, north of San…
CFP: Agricultural History Society Meeting, June 2019
Having received this call for papers twice in two days, it seems necessary to share it here. As the CFP below notes, the Agricultural History Society is interdisciplinary,…
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 3: Mexico—Armed Rebellion, Mass Migration, Flat GDP
Getting Past the Propaganda We are routinely told that Mexico has grown into the “one of the more robust emerging economies with exports of about $1 billion a…
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 2: Canada—Localized Profit, but a Net Outflow of Capital
In Part 1, details on trade and investment between Canada and the US were presented that showed the US has run surpluses in the trade in goods and…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, May 31, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Maya Milpa Workshop at OSU’s Waterman Farm
Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as new friends from Kenyon College) to learn about…
Diagnosis where? Testing Pigs and Humans for T. solium cysticercosis in Uganda by Rebekah Thompson
Two live pigs being transported to a local butcher in Mukono district, Uganda Taenia solium is a zoonotic disease shared between humans and pigs. Humans become infected with…
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part II
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me to a more secluded corner behind…
MOOC “Sustainable food systems: a Mediterranean perspective”
This is an announcement for a free, on-demand, on-line, course on sustainable food systems. It is an intriguing model for providing certain kinds of education about food (and…
What should you do?
(if the United States collapses, that is) This series has been examining the question of When will the United States collapse? The decline of US hegemony is usually…
AAA CFP: Time and Power in Agrarian Environments
CFP: AAA 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2018 San Jose, California Organizers: Natalia Gutkowski (Harvard University) and Ashawari Chaudhuri (MIT) Time and …
Weeds, Herbicides, and Bodies: Emerging Entanglements in Toxic Agricultural Landscapes
By Tony VanWinkle, Sterling College § Dedicated to the memory of Jackie Dill. Pigweed. Photo by author. Shortly after the unexpected death of friend and mentor Jackie Dill, I…
When Evolution Is Not a Slow Dance but a Fast Race to Survive
This young Afghan refugee named Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016, has features that are similar to ancient European hunter-gatherers. Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX This article was orig…
Sedimentation
On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel that focused on sedimentation as a social analytic.…
A “Hoppy” Bubble? Linking Labor and Capital in Washington State’s Beer and Cannabis Industries
Blog Editor’s note: This is the second installment in FoodAnthropology’s series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details about…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, October 9, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
The Fermentological Turn
What does the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association have brewing up for this year’s meeting? Take a look.
Margaret’s Mead: C&A’s First Zine
Last week, we printed off the first zine produced by the Culture & Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It’s a collaborative effort with essays, art, and…
The Pop Garden at Ohio State
One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…
Robert M. Netting Best Student Paper Prize
Check out this opportunity for money and publication from our friends at the C&A section of the AAA’s for their student paper competitions. Feel free to apply or…
CFP: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics
We have received the following call for proposals from David Kaplan, which may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers and researchers: Call for proposals: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural…
What EM Is Reading and Watching
Another set of thought-provoking readings and recommendations from frequent FoodAnthropology contributor Ellen Messer. Note that while many of these are inspired by items from the Financial Times, Dr….