What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
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Rethinking chronic illness and ethnography
by Luke Walker Since my diagnosis with Crohn’s disease in 2015, I have started to re-think the relationship between chronic illness, disability, and protest in a series of…
Ep. #6 Golden Globes allyship, thinking sick, health gaps, and working slow: this month on TFS
This month, Jodie (00:53) points to what the men didn’t say at the Golden Globes, and the problems of performing allyship. “So if we’re looking at the men…
Trumping the Farmers, Taxing the Junk Food, Regulating the Milk, and More: World Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander In the US: Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, and to thank them he addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville. “Oh, are…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
Taste and Terroir as an Anthropological Matter – Summary
Happy New Year! Abigail Adams and I are the new co-editors of the SAFN blog. Our heartfelt thanks to David Beriss, the long-time editor and constant champion of…
The Anthropology/Poetry Nexus–An Interview with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Can artists and social scientists inhabit the same universe? Melisa (“Misha”) Cahnmann-Taylor embodies that nexus. Her advanced degrees include an MFA in poetry . . . and a…
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Culinaria Research Center at the University of Toronto
The Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in the field of Food Studies. The Culinaria Research Centre is one…
News of the New Year at SAFN
David Beriss President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Happy New Year! We have news of changes here at FoodAnthropology and, more broadly, at the Society…
Job Posting for Food Systems/Food Studies Position
The Culinary Institute of America is looking for a new colleague to teach food studies and food systems. They would be joining a growing program in Applied Food…
Ep. #5 Stunted thinking: Annie McCarthy talks slum children, NGOs, and stunting in Delhi
In Ep. #5, Stunted thinking, Annie McCarthy talks slum children, NGOs, and stunting in Delhi, India.
MENA Dialogues – Esra Özyürek on Religion, Secularism and Nationalism in Turkey and Europe
A conversation for STATUS/الوضع, between Esra Özyürek of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Nazlı Özkan, a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology and Middle East…
Unpicking an (A)moral Anthropological Stance: Ongoing Violence in Myanmar
REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Introduction by Maaike Matelski In June 2015 the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology organized a seminar on account of the increasing number of Rohingya refug…
Food Swamps, Homeopathy, Healthy Soil, and Airplane Food: A New U.S. Food Policy Roundup
By Kelly Alexander Happy New Year and without further ado, here’s the state of U.S. food policy on this second day of 2018: Special United States Edition. In…
BRAZIL’S DICHOTOMOUS TREATMENT OF CORRUPTION – PT 1
PART ONE✓ Brazil is a country saturated with corruption. From the small, family-owned mom and pop neighborhood grocery store to the hallowed halls of the Senate and Congress,…
Start an Anthropology Career in 2018
Lets put aside for the moment all the usual warnings about pursuing an academic career. Lets say that you are old enough to take responsibility for your own…
Backpackers in Calcutta again
From: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice edited by Dr. Greg Richards, Dr. Julie Wilson 2004 And From: A Common Mission: Healthy Patterns in Congregational…
Sustainable Development Postdoc
The following announcement was received from Amy Trubek, who notes that there are several UVM Food Systems faculty affiliated with the Gund Institute. That, along with the fact…
Zout in de wonde – Een bespreking van White Innocence van Gloria Wekker
Nog geen week geleden kwam een Nederlandse politieke partij met een statement dat aangaf waar zij voor staat: ‘een open, tolerant, democratisch Nederland waar individuele eigenschappen bepalend zijn,…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, December 22, 2017
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…
Best of 2017: AAA Journals
As 2017 comes to a close we’d like to celebrate the AAA publishing portfolio by announcing the most-downloaded articles published by each journal this year. These articles are…
Gifts are a traditional part of Christmas – but why do we give presents at all?
The Gift, written by Marcel Mauss in 1925, explores why we exchange things and the social rules we follow – and might help explain why gift-giving can be…
Gifts are a traditional part of Christmas – but why do we give presents at all?
The Gift, written by Marcel Mauss in 1925, explores why we exchange things and the social rules we follow – and might help explain why gift-giving can be…