Ross Perlin‘s Language City explores the global crisis of endangered languages by focusing on the extraordinary linguistic diversity of New York City. Weaving history and linguistics with human…
Journal of Lieutenant George Foster Emmons[1] (Officer of the Peacock) August 7, 1841-The country becoming smoky from the annual fires of the Indians- who burn
Graphic Gastronomy Bandes Dessinées, Comics, Mangas and Food Cultures through History 15th Conference of the European Institute for the History and Culture of Food 3 – 5 December…
Sophie Warth We are pleased to announce Sophie Warth as the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson undergraduate writing award. She won with a paper entitled “First Meals…
After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Peer reviews came back…
When the Grand Ronde Reservation was created some 32 tribes were moved, or resettled, onto the reservation. Conditions on the reservation were not good for
4th Conference on Food & Communication Food for All: Media, Communication and Food Democracy University of Lille, France, 10-12 September 2025 The 4th Conference on Food & Commu…
Written by Keith Hart National capitalism starts unravelling in the 1970s In the early 1970s, the United States’ losing war …
In 2019, my friend and colleague Grant Otsuki started experimenting with Generative AI (GenAI) – GPT-2 by OpenAI – to see how well it did at writing an…
Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist
Armani Stewart The 2024 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student award goes to Armani Stewart for her project titled “Mapping Black Women’s Food Geographies: Exploring place, security, and w…
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:…
Celebrating SAFN’s Fiftieth Anniversary this Year! AAA Annual Meeting 2024 Tampa, Florida SAFN + C&A Joint Reception Friday, November 22 | 7:30 – 9:30 Tampa Convention Center…
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as…
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Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness and community service. Alan Shawn Feinstein (ASF),…
Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world …
Send us your best crop for Anthropology News! Ariana Gunderson SAFN Section EditorAnthropology News We hope you will consider submitting to SAFN’s online column in Anthropology News! This is a …
In Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan, Afaf Jabiri considers the discrimination and violence experienced by Palestinian women displaced from Syria to refugee camps in Jordan. Based on four…
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
A few years ago, my friend Caroline Bennett gave me Lynda Barry’s 2014 book Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor and this term I decided to use some…
Comparison rebooted as participatory research did not quite take off as a turn (not only through lack of time and funds) but thankfully it is still bubbling away…
Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of …
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult…