Another Answer to the Question “What is Anthropology?”
Photo by David Barnas on Flickr By Matthias Teeuwen As a student of cultural anthropology you are invariably confronted with the question: what is anthropology? It can briefly…
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“The Value of Social Media” at the AAA conference
Daniel Miller talking at the AAA conference. Photo by Nell Haynes. From the Why We Post Team, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, and Daniel Miller attended the American Anthropological…
Review: Chickenizing Farms and Food
Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Farmers and Consumers. Ellen K. Silbergeld. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2o16. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) Silb…
Review: What’s So Controversial about Genetically Modified Foods?
Editor’s Note: This is the first of two reviews I have planned of this important new book. What’s So Controversial about Genetically-Modified Foods? John Lang. Reaktion Publishers. 2016…
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
ASFS Student Paper Awards
Students! Check out these awards for undergraduate and graduate essays from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. These are great opportunities for fame and recognition.…
Victims, volunteers and voices of the digital age
Figure 1. A widely shared campaign image calling for the release of Prita Mulyasari, one of Indonesia’s best known ‘ITE Law victims’ (korban UU ITE). Source: Hadin (2013).…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, December 5, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Do you have items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com…
CFP: Feminist Food Studies: Exploring Intersectionality
Yet another call for abstracts that will no doubt be of great interest to readers of FoodAnthropology: EDITED COLLECTION CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONALITY What…
CFP: FOOD IN CANADA AND BEYOND
We recently received notification of the looming deadline (January 15, 2017) for this conference, which may be of interest to SAFN members and FoodAnthropology readers. The Canadian Association…
Perennial Narratives in Anthropology
Since the 1960s, there has not been any new, innovative or groundbreaking advances in the field of anthropology. Although some good work has been done, most of it…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, November 30, 2016
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…
4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy
Received from Mariana Kavroulaki, who you may contact at mkavroulakis@gmail.com if you have questions. 4th Symposium of Greek Gastronomy Known, Forgotten and Lost Grains Karanou, Chania/Crete. 29-30…
It’s In the Cards: Narratives and Storytelling in Magic: The Gathering
By Steven Dashiell Gaming isn’t the focus of my research, but I’ve participated in it since I was 13 years old, the first day I bought a…
Phenomenology of the Virtual and the Real
A long over-due crosspost from gnovis! Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in,…
CFP: We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food
We recently received the following call for papers which may be a great opportunity for some of our readers. From akutaq to whoopie pie, there are some great…
From Facebook to ‘fakebook’ – who controls the information on social media?
A young Chinese factory worker reading on his smartphone. Mark Zuckerberg finally said that Facebook plans to have a more effective control of misinformation, which is a sharp reversal…
The Power of a Story: I, Daniel Blake
by Tim Perkin Feature Photo: Wikimedia.org I am no avid film fan. I can barely sit through an entire episode of Breaking Bad or Homeland let alone a…
Teaching Food with Photos: High Point Food Anthropology
After a long hiatus, we return with the next installment in our Food Pedagogy Interview Series. We hear from Dr. Chelsea Wentworth, Associate Professor of Anthropology at High…
The social role of anthropology’s racist uncle
There’s a certain trope that has been going around for years, and it has hit a peak these days as many people express their collective shock and surprise…
Don’t Panic! The Neuroscience behind falling into Balance w/ Vivek Pandey Vimal
Are balance and movement something that can be culturally shaped? Why aren’t female rats being used in drug studies? In this episode of This Anthropological Life we team…
Postmortem and Possibilities: Reflections on AAA 2016
After the results of the election, there was a new kind of energy at the AAA’s, a nervousness and a palpable anticipation. There was a sense that this…
What FoodAnthro is Reading Now, November 21, 2016
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…
On capitalist utopia and the rightful share
by Deniz Seebacher & Julia Büchele The title of James Ferguson’s latest book (2015) draws from (arguably) “the world’s most widely circulated development cliché”: Give a man a fish,…