What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 25, 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…
Tag: anthropology
The Pop Garden at Ohio State
One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…
Data overload
How do we proceed to live in a world in which data overwhelms us? At every point we seem to be participating in capture schemes that reduce us…
Do All African Immigrants Arrive Sick, Desperate, and Empty-Handed on the Shores of Europe? Ask Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg!
The lives, status, and image of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue of our time. In an arresting and captivating new study of Cameroonian mothers now…
5th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium
Were you planning to participate in the Yale Food Systems Symposium this year? Depending on your plans, you may be happy to learn that they have changed the…
New Associate Editor
Dr. Katharina Graf (kg38@soas.ac.uk), who recently received her DPhil in the Anthropology of Food from SOAS-University of London, will be joining SAFN as Associate Book Review Editor for…
Coding Culture IV: Code-phobia and Making the Most of Fear, Failure, and Tiny Victories in Digital Anthropology
This is the fourth and final post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. In the first…
Review: Bitter and Sweet
Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning and Modernity in Rural China. Ellen Oxfeld. University of California Press, 2017. David E. Sutton Southern Illinois University The residents of Moonshadow Pond,…
CFP: “Food and …” Texas Tech, March 29-31, 2018
Upcoming conference of possible interest to SAFN members. Call for Papers “Food and . . . ” Conference March 29-31, 2018 Humanities Center at Texas Tech The Humanities…
What Foodanthro is Reading Now, August 3, 2017
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…
New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Deadline Extension
A quick update! The deadline for submissions to the 11th New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy has been extended to August 15, 2017. Everyday: New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Christchurch, No…
Mess in the Middle East
Many people throughout the Western world do not understand what is happening in the Middle East. Much of the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of the complicated relations…
Robert M. Netting Best Student Paper Prize
Check out this opportunity for money and publication from our friends at the C&A section of the AAA’s for their student paper competitions. Feel free to apply or…
Kom op Maarten, léés ons artikel!
Maarten Zeegers verwijt ons dat we niet transparant zijn over ons onderzoek naar de huwelijken van Nederlandse vrouwelijke Syriëgangers. Helaas blijkt uit alles dat hij klakkeloos de beschuldigingen…
the congo dandies
Description by RT Documentaries: ““La Sape” is a unique movement based in Congo that unites fashion-conscious men who are ready to splurge money they don’t really have…
Para qué sirve estudiar antropología?
Reunión de la Asociación Canadiense de Antropología 2017 en conjunción con el Congreso de la Unión Internacional de Antropología 2017 en Ottawa, Canadá. Foto G.V.C. “Para nada” Recientemente,…
Some Pig
David Beriss What is it we fear most in our food supply in the post-industrial West? Food shortages? Industrialized food? Genetic manipulation? Ecological disaster? Globalized food systems? The…
Is History Over? How Can Power be Soft? Ask Ulf Hannerz
The end of history The clash of civilizations The coming anarchy Soft power We’ve all heard these trendy mottos, and most of us have probably cringed. Anthropologists…
SAFN Award Deadlines Extended!
SAFN is pleased to announce that we are extending the deadlines for both the Christine Wilson Award and the Thomas Marchione Award to July 28, 2017. Thomas Marchione…
Did human women contribute to Neanderthal genomes over 200,000 years ago?
A new Neanderthal mitochondrial genome supports a remarkable hypothesis – that there was interbreeding with an extremely early migration of African hominins Keeping pace with new developments in…
Een rechtvaardige academische cultuur: vertrouwen, vrijheid en veiligheid voor allen
Afgelopen donderdag presenteerde de UvA het auditrapport naar het onderzoek ‘Chatting about marriage with female migrants to Syria’. De UvA had tot deze reflectie audit besloten na eerdere…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, July 11th 2017
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…
CFP: Industrial French Food and Its Critics
A call for papers of potential interest to FoodAnthropology readers: Industrial French Food and Its Critics French food is steeped in contradictions. The French are often admired for…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 3, 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…