On Meetings…
Industrial practices have forged new and creative ways to waste people’s time. Within these practices however, meetings are the most excellent example that I can think of, in…
Tag: anthropology
Anthropology’s heterodoxy
“Flowers” by Claude Monet By Ton Salman In the following blog, Ton Salman reacts to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, titled “Is Anthrop…
Following persimmon around the world
Ten years ago, when we were still living in Boston, in the days before the large Korean supermarket chain, H Mart, made sourcing Korean produce a breeze, my…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, February 21, 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…
APLA Book Prize Announcement
From our colleagues at the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, a book prize competition that may be of interest to SAFN members and other readers of this…
Food and Drink as Symbols: Historical Perspectives
We recently received this call for papers that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers. Deadlines and contact information are below. Department of History and Material Culture of…
A Nuclear Advocacy Dilemma
Advocacy anthropology does not always mean aligning oneself with an underdog. Nicolas Raymond/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Since the establishment of our discipline, anthropologists have fretted over the questi…
Introduction to “Ethnographer as Activist”
Grappling with Ethnography and Advocacy in the Field What follows is a transcribed conversation between the authors. It has been edited for length and clarity. iStock Haley Bryant:…
Supporting the Resistance
Well, 2017 has certainly burst out of the gates, with Trump signing executive orders the way a bull wreaks havoc in a china shop, and the resistance using…
On Food and Labor, Briefly
David Beriss Andrew Puzder has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration. As I pointed out a few weeks ago,…
The Joys–and Uses–of Teaching Anthropology
Yes, I’ve retired from full-time teaching. Yes, I sometimes miss it, and may well return to the classroom from time to time. For now, I was tickled to…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 19: Anne Galvin on Reflexivity and the White Anthropologist
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 2: Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics
The ethnographer’s body is gendered
Anya Evans is a PhD candidate currently conducting ethnographic research in the Middle East. Her work revolves around issues of the everyday and the future under occupation. She…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 13, 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…
Book Forum — Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 by Todd Meyers
Andrew Brandel has organized an extraordinary and diverse set of commentaries on Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Duk…
Is Anthropology the most Humanistic of the Sciences and the most Scientific of the Humanities?
Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle, by Johannes Torrentius, 1614 By Matthias Teeuwen The epithet in the title, commonly attributed to Alfred Kroeber, is often used…
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in New Orleans, is a French bistro that has…
Waiting w/ Serra Hakyemez
with Aneil and Ryan Special Guest: Serra Hakyemez Is waiting political? Can you cut in line at Starbucks during your hectic morning commute? In this episode of TAL…
Being a grad student with ADHD: An ode to constant ontological uncertainty.
[Hi. I’m back. I’m digressing from my usual topics to get a little cathartic and personal for a bit. Don’t worry, for the next post we’ll be back…
CFP: The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Got students? Do they do ethnographic research and write papers about it? Check out this CFP, which may not be directly about food and nutrition…but could be. Let…
AFHVS/ASFS Deadline Extension
A quick update! The deadline for submissions to the AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference has been extended to February 6, 2017, at 9pm PST. AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting and Conference, June 14-17,…
Measures of Quality Education
When I first came to Brazil, I quickly became aware of the problem in the educational system here. So, I began to collect statistics and study why the…
What Foodanthro is Reading Now, January 31st Edition
This article about a Syrian supper club in New Jersey was a glimpse of bridge-building, centered on food. Hooray for bridges. And hooray for cooking, with cookbooks, even in…