Rethinking BDS
A shorter version of this post will soon appear online as a podcast, in coordination with the motion put to a vote among the membership of the American…
A shorter version of this post will soon appear online as a podcast, in coordination with the motion put to a vote among the membership of the American…
In Part Three of an ongoing series on teaching anthropology and popular culture, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) provides some suggestions for creating an anthropology course…
(… this is very informal…) Why do I blog? When you work outside academia and you’re not actively researching you still want to write, you still want…
Op 21 maart jongstleden presenteerde Meld Islamofobie haar eerste jaarrapport. Onderstaand stuk is de tekst van mijn korte lezing die avond over het begrip islamofobie. Laat me om…
To mark the publication of the newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture series, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood, the…
Review of: Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (ed.) Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016). Michael McDonald Florida Gulf…
An award announcement from the Association for the Anthropology of Policy, of possible interest to graduate students: The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) invites submissions for…
A note on style: I wrote this in a hotel room somewhere. I used Scapple from Literature and Latte to do it. It was really just a note…
Colin Thor West UNC Chapel Hill Anthropologists from around the world gathered last week at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. Dr. Colin…
Guest contributor: Markus Bell, Australian National University I hadn’t been in Japan more than a few weeks before I was hooked on Japanese karē raisu (curryrice/カレーライス). It was…
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Eugene N. Anderson UC Riverside The Society for Applied Anthropology meetings included a very large number of papers on food. Most of them concerned either food security or…
Opportunity for the Recognition of Outstanding Student Research by applying for the Thomas Marchione Award Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award…
Announcing the 2016 Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate…
Learner locations on Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media The first run of our free five-week e-course, We Why Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, has now come to…
April 3, 2016: Hello FoodAnthro readers, the past week has been overflowing with food news. If you have something you’d like to contribute for future weeks, please email…
Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, observational science that provides an account of a…
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
How does a camera and a deep sense of curiosity lead to a lifetime of archaeological research on ancient peoples, their symbols, art, and writing? Ryan and Aneil…
I remember being a kid trying to figure out what set adults apart from the rest of the masses of “watery moles” (Thanks, Florence King, for that reference…
Ellen Messer Tufts University Carlo Petrini’s Food & Freedom. How the Slow Food Movement is Changing the World Through Gastronomy (John Irving, trans. New York: Rizzoli International…
Ellen Messer Tufts University Experienced wine political-economist Mike Veseth asserts there is no sure relationship between price and quality. This is because wines in recent decades have been…