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…
Majeed Malhas We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 SAFN Student Research Award is Majeed Malhas. Malhas won with a project entitled “Arab Nationalism…
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…
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 …
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Best dish to start…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Plan and submit your sessions for the joint 2024 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in Tampa Florida. The time has come to start planning and…
Photo Neni Panourgiá. Necromancer (The Oracle of the Dead) by the river Acheron, Greece. Jugs that held cereal and other seed offerings to the shrine. 14th-13th century BCE.…
Food – Media – Senses: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz, and Eva Wattolik (editors). Transcript, 2023. 330 pps. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9 Emily Contois (University of …
Neni PanourgiáJustice-in-Education Initiative, Heyman Center for the HumanitiesColumbia University The Beginning My father would cut the bread against his chest. Winter or summer, dressed for d…
Overthought, but tasty. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green and Jennifer Jo Thompson Student, professional, or retired. Academic or practicing. New member or lapsed. You have a place at…
Natsuko Tsujimura. Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways. Lexington Books. New York. 2023. ISBN: 9781498571333. pp. 287. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State Universi…
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
Hunter Calvert SAFN is pleased to announce that the annual Christine Wilson undergraduate paper award winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert for his paper on “Relationships as Infrastructure: Unde…
Lunch at Stella Maris Cafe, Arabi, Louisiana. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss In planning my classes this year, I did not count on war. I am teaching Food…
Ariana Gunderson Here is a schedule of all the SAFN events, panels, and food-oriented panels sponsored by other sections. For your easy reference, our events are also listed…
Langa Township, Cape Town. Smoke billows as Yonela sears a sheep head with a hot metal rod, cleaning off any remaining wool. This is part of the cleaning…
F/X Studios David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) After this summer’s release of season 2 of The Bear on Hulu, it seems that anyone interested in the world of…
Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, (eds). Communicating Food in Korea. Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland. 2021. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781793642271. Richard Zimmer (Sonom…