The case for culture in business, as clearly and forcefully as I can make it
This is an abbreviation of talk I gave for the design firm Thomas Pigeon in early April. It puts the “case for culture in business” as forcefully as I…
Tag: anthropology
Anthropology Matters
Author Shirley A. Fedorak discusses the changes to the new edition of Anthropology Matters and how they are grounded in a need to make anthropology relevant to today’s…
Religion and Economy – Part One
Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. Science began as a form of knowledge opposed to religious mysticism, but is now often…
CFP: Food Security in the Pacific
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana January 30 to February 4, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2017 As the effects of climate change…
Great Food Conference Program
Los Angeles is one of the great food cities of the world. So, logically, it should be one of the great places to have a food studies conference.…
See you later, from the Why We Post team
This is our end-of-project blogpost, after five years of our ERC-funded project Why We Post. So, what has been achieved? 1) In the light of a comparative study…
Creative Tastebuds Symposium
Rethinking taste. By confronting natural and human sciences this symposium raises new questions about taste. We invite the audience to wonder with us: How are the connections between…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now, April 26th, 2017
Jo Hunter-Adams 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…
70 (or so) Essential Books in Anthropology – Allegra’s Readers’ Choices
Which books did you, our dear readers, consider as really essential reading in anthropology? Here’s the list of books that you suggested – all 70 + of them! The…
Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10)
[A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of a previous plan, now offcuts in the sawdust.] Ethnography as a hobby or…
TOP 30 Revisited – Readers’ Choices
Back in in 2015 Allegra published “The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology” – a list curated via a small-scale survey among junior and senior anthropologists. The list received…
CFP: The Future of Food Studies
We recently received this call for papers for a graduate student conference that should be of interest to our members or their students. At the very end of…
‘Islamofobie bedreigt mijn Nederlandse identiteit’ – Een verslag van ‘Doe Normaal’
Op maandag 10 april jl. vond aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam een bijeenkomst plaats over de normalisering van islamofobie. De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd door het Collectief tegen Islamofobie…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 21, 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…
Scientist, Woman, Earthling: Why We Need the March for Science
By Kate McGrath I am a scientist. Some people would probably call me a woman-scientist, and those people are jerks. Though it’s easy to forget, women make up…
Coding Culture III: Four More (Advanced) Hacks for the Digital Anthropology Classroom
This is the third post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. The applications for digital technology in…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
How does it feel to be a problem? – W.E.B. du Bois on Race and Double Consciousness
What African-American scholar W.E.B. du Bois called the condition of ‘double-consciousness’, the ambivalence and ambiguities that come with a position of liminality, refers not only to being caught…
Of Bodily & Anthropological Matters: Self-Improvement in the Age of Wellness (AAA CFP)
In search of papers for wellness panel at AAA. Tentative abstract below. If interested contact Lindsay.Bell@oswego.edu Of Bodily and Anthropological Matters: Self-Improvement in the Age of Wellness In…
Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grants
CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 SCHOLAR’S GRANTS INCREASED FUNDING BY JULIA CHILD FOUNDATION FOR GASTRONOMY AND CULINARY ARTS APPLICATION DEADLINE JUNE 2, 2017 C…
Black Women’s Food Work is from the Future
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Alright, let’s talk about GHB: A user’s guide.
When it kicks in, it feels like meeting an old friend for the first time. – Daniel, 34 Few drugs are as misunderstood and stigmatized as GHB (except for…
AAA CFP Last Call // Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory
Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory (seeking papers re: Agriculture, Food Commodities) Co-organizers: Serena Stein, PhD Candidate, Princeton University Andrew Ofstehage, PhD Candidate, UNC-Chap…