Reminder! 2019 Christine Wilson Awards Applications Due Soon!
Don’t Miss This Great Opportunity! Students! Did you write a research paper on food and/or nutrition this year? Are you writing one now? Want fame and recognition? We…
Don’t Miss This Great Opportunity! Students! Did you write a research paper on food and/or nutrition this year? Are you writing one now? Want fame and recognition? We…
An earlier version of this article first appeared on Hatful of History. In the last month, milkshakes have been lobbed at several far-right candidates in the European elections…
Carney, M. A. (2015). The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0520285477 Rachael McCormick Universit…
Call for papers The Food Studies Program, New York University (NYU), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe) and the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Univ…
Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related to food and human rights? Food security? Food justice? Do you consider that these and related…
Students! Are you writing great research papers on food and/or nutrition? Want fame and recognition? We want to hear from you! The Society for the Anthropology of Food…
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and German influences. I am entangled in “milk culture,”…
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78238-455-7 hardbac…
Di Maio, Dina M. Authentic Italian. The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People. ISBN#13:978-0-9996255-0-7 Francesca Gobbo University of Turin With her book Authentic Italian (2018),…
David Beriss This is going to be a very quick note about two related things. First, many SAFN members (and many members of the American Anthropological Association) have…
James C. Scott Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN #: 9780300182910 David Sutton Southern Illinois University With his 5…
Emma-Jayne Abbots The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food and the Body. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. ISBN #9781472598530 Molly Hilton (Wayne State University) The senses have been causing a major stir…
A call for papers that could be of particular interest to SAFN members and FoodAnthropology readers who study festivals, fairs, and other events. Call for Papers: Special Issue…
David Beriss 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…
CALL FOR PAPERS Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2019 15-16 November (Post)colonial foodways: creating, negotiating, and resisting transnational food systems Because of its manifold effects…
Michelle Szabo & Shelley Koch eds. Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN: 9781474262323. Neri Kuinera de Kramer-Lynch (University of Delawa…
Caviar Dreams. Directed by Brian Gersten, Liv Dubendorf, Wei Ying. A Democracy through Documentary Kartemquin Films project in conjunction with KTQ Labs and Wake Forest University’s Documentar…
There is a slew of deadlines, awards, and opportunities for anyone interested in the activities of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. These include an…
David Beriss 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…
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University Kwang Ok …
Food and Power: A Culinary Ethnography of Israel: Nir Avieli. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2018. 274 pp. ISBN 9870520290105 Shir Lerman Ginzburg Albert Einstein College of…
Alert readers of this blog may already know that Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First, will provide the distinguished lecture at the joint SAFN and C&A event…
Burger (Object Lessons): Carol J. Adams. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. 174 pp. ISBN 9781501329463 James P. Verinis Anthropology and Sociology Roger Williams University Along with personal stereo a…
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico. Alyshia Gálvez. University of California Press. 2018. 260pp. ISBN:9780520291812. Joan Gross Oregon State University Alyshia Gá…