Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon
The edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian, was just published by Punctum Books and is available in pdf format FOR FREE…
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Land, Labour, and Power in a Colonial Catholic Mission in Trinidad
Colonial propaganda that masks “humanitarianism” behind self-interest, and breeds euphemisms that are inversions of reality, constitute the recurring subjects of the critiques produced on Zero Anthrop…
Which Language for Local Food in Wallonie?
Joan Gross I just returned to my dissertation fieldwork site after 38 years. Back in the 1980s I examined the use of the regional Gallo-Romance dialect, Walloon, in…
De Handelaar
Afgelopen vrijdag tweette de leider van Forum voor Democratie, Thierry Baudet, het volgende: Kritische media als we hebben, die gingen gelijk op speurtocht. En wat is de conclusie?…
The Subjugation of Liberal Democracy
Are we witnessing in our lifetime the slow destruction of liberal democracy? Have we exhausted the limits of a political system that has served nations for more than…
Anthropology for Liberation readings 2.0
In 2017 I taught a new course for the first time: Anthropology for Liberation. Here’s the short course description: How can Anthropology advance human emancipation from racism, gender…
Review: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Nico Slate. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind. University of Washington Press. Seattle: 2019. 237 pp. ISBN 9780295744957 (hardcover: alk. paper.) Richard…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2020
The Sophie Coe Prize is awarded each year to an engaging, original piece of writing that delivers new research and/or new insights into any aspect of food history.…
On the ‘Fluid Mosaic’
Introduction The theme of the Fluid mosaic offers an interdisciplinary journey, as Homi Bhabha would say (Bhabha 1994)[1] in-between different domains, such as visual art, dance, poetry, performance,…
Rick Bayless, Plucky Jollibee, and Globalization
David Beriss I receive a lot of restaurant industry email. Despite the deluge, sometimes the emails provide glimpses into the industry that I would not otherwise get. For…
Can academics change the world?
Via The Conversation: Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned,…
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues usually predict upcoming food trends. USA Today, for…
Unhealthy at the Health Fair: A personal account of chronic illness and disability in the field
Bio: Samantha Streuli is a PhD candidate at University of California, San Diego. Her research centers on a vaccine-promotion health intervention taking place within the Somali refugee community…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 9, 2020
David Beriss After a long hiatus, FoodAnthropology returns with a brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should…
From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
“What counts is the imagination of ham, rather than its actual existence,” An Interview with Joelle Bahloul
In this third installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food, David Sutton talks with Joelle Bahloul, whose work on food and memory has inspired many…
Intercultural Learning Community on Food, Culture and Social Justice, Part II
The Intercultural Learning Community at the vegan restaurant, Quinoa, operated by one of our own members, Luz Zaruma Joan Gross Oregon State University Just as our fall term…
Religious Colonizing in Brazil
After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country. As a gringo living in Brazil for more…
Science as an Orientalizing Field
Science is a Western form of knowledge production and can be divided into three forms: 1) science as a set of methods for investigating the world we inhabit,…
El performance puede cambiar el mundo!
Uno de los grandes acontecimientos de 2019 ha sido la puesta en escena del performance “Un violador en tu camino” del grupo de teatro “Las Tesis” de Valparaíso,…
Book Review: Travels through Old Futures–Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
By Christopher Marcatili Lothian, Alexis (2018) Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. New York: NYU Press. Through thoughtful analysis of a number of speculative stories from the la…
Going home. Going home? The anthropologist is coming along
by Hannah Schwemin Booking flights, getting train tickets, stuffing bags and guessing how much space we need for the food we will bring back with us from our…
¿Génesis? Performance Poststructural 2019
Como cada año, este diciembre mis estudiantes del curso Teoría Social Post-estructural presentaron su examen final en la forma de un performance en el que tenían que actuar…
Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part II)
By Andrew Gilbert In Part I of this essay, I discussed the design and goals of a new course I had developed on graphic novels in an upper-year…