The Ultimate Proletarian and the Neoliberal Condition
“Proletarian” has acquired many layers of meaning over the centuries, possibly in part because the many, historically changing situations of proletarians became more complex. Since the advent of…
Tag: anthropology
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 10 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers. If you have articles you’d like to share in future round-ups, please send the link and a brief description to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Thanks to the readers…
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim?
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been dead for decades during a ceremony (read about…
Christine Wilson Award, July 1 Deadline!
REMINDER! Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate papers ar…
Inequality and “the Global Question”
To mark the publication of Global Inequality, the first book in UTP’s new Anthropological Insights series, author Kenneth McGill explains the process of writing a book about inequality…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
Roundtable Report: “Globalization of Asian Cuisines”
To celebrate the publication of “Globalization of Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones,” three of the edited volume’s authors—Stephanie Assmann, James Farrer, and David Wa…
Review: Teaching Food and Culture
Teaching Food and Culture. Edited by Candice Lowe Swift and Richard Wilk. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015. 209 pp. US$39.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-62958-127-9. Review by…
The Lost Jingle Dress
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first ‘published’ piece of creative nonfiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
The Games! They’re Alive!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in the Living Games Conference in Austin, Texas. Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 3 Edition
An amazing selection of items from around the internet gathered to delight and fascinate our faithful readers. If you have items you think our readers should read, send…
The Perils of Adulthood Part 1: Making New Friends
The other day I was in my car listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts , This American Life. The theme was related to the…
Notes on the 10th digital ethnography reading (Wacquant 2004)
Wacquant, L. J. D. (2004). Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Notes by Edgar Gomez Digital Ethnography Research Centre…
Eating Insects Detroit
Gina Louise Hunter Illinois State University Eating Insects Detroit: Exploring the Culture of Insects as Food and Feed, held May 26-28 at Wayne State University brought together industry…
Podcast Pedagogy
This is the second in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
Illegal Immigration: a global problem
People are migrating across the globe in unprecedented numbers. More than 200 million people are residing in countries other than their home countries. Further, that number represents a…
4th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium
Feeding a Growing World: Perspectives in 2016 Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies September 30th, 2016 Request for Proposals Half a century out from the Green…
Review of The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Evens & Handelman 2006)
The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. T.M.S. Evens & Don Handelman (eds). 2006. Oxford/New York: Berghahn. x + 334 pp. JOHN POSTILL Ethnos: Journal of…
Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: May 26th EditionMay
May 26, 2016: Hello FoodAnthropology Readers, We have a short but worthwhile round up for you this week. As always, if you have a link you’d like to…
Don’t hate the dual-screen
We’ve all done it – the knee-jerk judgement passed on the person starting intensely at their phone at dinner, at a movie, among friends. And certainly, it is…
Review of: American Cheddar Cheese-Ways
Edgar, Gordon (2015) Cheddar. A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese and what is can tell us about our history, cultural identity, and food politics. White River…