Review: Ark of Taste Kenya
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
Celebrating the ghost of the Maid of Orleans, New Orleans, 2023. Photo David Beriss. The time has come to plan and submit sessions for the 2025 American Anthropology…
Home gardener Calvin harvests mustard greens for friends from church. Photo by Aimee L. Trojnar. PhD thesis by Aimee L. Trojnar, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, 2024.…
Terese Gagnon, ed. Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty. 274 pp. University of Arizona Press. 2024. ISBN: 9780816553983 Christian Keeve (PhD Candidate, Geogr…
Aquaculture, Nova Scotia. photo by David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food anthropology related phot…
Warren Wilson College, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND Amanda GreenEastern Kentucky University On Friday September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene dumped 12-20 inches of…
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University In her Introduction,&nb…
Nicola Twilley. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Penguin. NY. 2024, pp. 387 ISBN: 9780735223288. Richard Zimmer. Sonoma State University The…
Minny Lee We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her essay entitled “Korean Buddhist Temple Food:…
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…
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 …