What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, October 4, 2016
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Tag: anthropology of food
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 22, 2016
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Blackness, Food, and State-Sanctioned Violence
I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about a) what people were eating b) where they were shopping, and c)…
Naresaba: A Fraught History of Fermented Mackerel Sushi
Shingo Hamada Osaka Shoin Women’s University Fermentation is a preservation technology often seen in Southeast Asia and East Asia, including fish sauce and fermented fish. However, naresaba (fermente…
Fear of Foodways? On Trigger Warnings, Horses, and a Dropped Class
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few years ago I received an angry email from a student, informing me that she was dropping my “Food and Culture”…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 6, 2016
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 dberiss@gmail.com…
Out With The Old: Gentrifying Seoul’s Noryangjin Fish Market
By Markus Bell and Jieun Kim In 1998 an article in Seoul’s Kyeonghyang newspaper described a visit to Seoul’s Noryanggin Fish Market as follows: “Arriving in the…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 23, 2016
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
Review: Stirring the Pot
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine. James C. McCann. Ohio University Press. 2009 Mary B. Sundal Washburn University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology As part…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 8 Edition
The inter-webs are exploding with fascinating food and nutrition readings; we can hardly keep up here at FoodAnthropology. Before we get to the readings, however, we would…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 30 Edition
We have had a brief summer hiatus here in the FoodAnthropology reading and Tour de France watching department, during which we have, in fact, been doing some…
New Food Studies MS Program
We recently received the following announcement of a new Master of Science degree in Culinary Arts and Science from Professor Jonathan Deutsch at Drexel University, which may be of…
Open Anthropology Features Food Anthropology
The June 2016 issue of Open Anthropology is dedicated to Food Anthropology. Many SAFN members are featured in this open-access selection of articles and reviews from American Anthropological Associat…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 17 Edition
We have a global and eclectic collection of readings for you this week, with a lot of hidden treasures among the links. See below. If you are inspired…
A Food Anthropologist at the John Dewey Kitchen Institute
Rachel Black President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Connecticut College Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the John Dewey Kitchen Institute at the University…
Christine Wilson Award, July 1 Deadline!
REMINDER! Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate papers ar…
Review: Teaching Food and Culture
Teaching Food and Culture. Edited by Candice Lowe Swift and Richard Wilk. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015. 209 pp. US$39.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-62958-127-9. Review by…
Eating Insects Detroit
Gina Louise Hunter Illinois State University Eating Insects Detroit: Exploring the Culture of Insects as Food and Feed, held May 26-28 at Wayne State University brought together industry…
Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…
Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham
Are you planning to be in or near London anytime between May 25 and June 6? If so, you may want to head over to Lewisham, where you…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now, May 18 Edition
A selection of items from around the internet of possible interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. If you have items you think our readers should read, send a note…
Curry’s Great Transnational Journey from India to North Korea
Guest contributor: Markus Bell, Australian National University I hadn’t been in Japan more than a few weeks before I was hooked on Japanese karē raisu (curryrice/カレーライス). It was…
Applied Food Anthropology in Vancouver
Eugene N. Anderson UC Riverside The Society for Applied Anthropology meetings included a very large number of papers on food. Most of them concerned either food security or…
Christine Wilson Award 2016
Announcing the 2016 Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate…