Review: Rural Affective Economies
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Rural Affective Economies: An Ethnographic Approach to Local Developmen in Rural Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. xiii, 223 pages. eBook ISBN 978-3-031-70826-8. …
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Rural Affective Economies: An Ethnographic Approach to Local Developmen in Rural Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. xiii, 223 pages. eBook ISBN 978-3-031-70826-8. …
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
Tea Towel from Scott Barton’s Exhibit “Buried in the Heart: A Repast for Angels and Martyrs.” LindenSculpture Garden https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=B8ru5vyK3da David Sutton In this installme…
Review of Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe. Edited by Virginie Amilien, Monia Saïdi, and Matthieu Duboys de Labarre. London: Routledge, 2026. Xiii + 258 pp. ISBN…
Figure 1. Zak Choukri holding a fig in Aïn Berda, Morocco (2019). Photo by author. A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an…
SAFN is honored to recognize Mallory Rose Cerkleski with the 2026 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right Award for her ongoing research on food rationing, welfare, and…
SAFN is honored to recognize Mallory Rose Cerkleski with the 2026 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right Award for her ongoing research on food rationing, welfare, and…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
Rindszunge in Sahnesauce mit Kapern, Sacha47, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A note from Mecca (Med) Howe, PhD: This blog article was written fo…
Rindszunge in Sahnesauce mit Kapern, Sacha47, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an u…
Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm of controversy online. In the video, Eilish was…
Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm of controversy online. In the video, Eilish was…
Sophie Chao. Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. Duke University Press. 2025. ISBN: 9781478032038. 272 pp. Terese V, Gagnon (UNC-Chapell Hill) Here, Sophie Chao returns…
Sophie Chao. Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. Duke University Press. 2025. ISBN: 9781478032038. 272 pp. Terese V, Gagnon (UNC-Chapell Hill) Here, Sophie Chao returns…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares. Will Work for Food Labor across the Food Chain. University of California Press. 2025. ISBN: 9780520391611 Janis Brehler (Oregon State Universi…
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares. Will Work for Food Labor across the Food Chain. University of California Press. 2025. ISBN: 9780520391611 Janis Brehler (Oregon State Universi…
Kelly Alexander. Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State. The University of North Carolina Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781469678597 Nafsika Papacharalampous (SOAS Food Studies…
Kelly Alexander. Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State. The University of North Carolina Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781469678597 Nafsika Papacharalampous (SOAS Food Studies…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…