Geertzian moments (or, ‘when ethnographers lose their shit’)
Returning home from hunting on our Husband’s country, fieldwork (2008) There are certain moments during fieldwork that anthropologists refer to as ‘Geertzian moments’ o…
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31. Hacktivism and open data in Latin America
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
Popular Culture Courses for Anthropology
In Part Two of an ongoing series, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) provides an overview of how popular culture can be integrated into the university classroom. Last…
Stolen Art
Hiding in Plain Sight Bell-krater featuring an elderly satyr and a young Dionysus. Attributed to Python (Greek, South Italian, Paestan, active mid-4th century BC). Polaroids of this bell-krater…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: March 14 Edition
March 14, 2016: Hi FoodAnthro readers, we have quite a collection of stories for you this week. As always, if you’d like to submit a story for the …
Why We Post is “the biggest, most ambitious project of its sort”, says The Economist
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…
The Best Food Film Not About Food
David Beriss University of New Orleans Is it possible that the best food movie ever made is not a food movie? Last fall I was teaching a course…
Fan Activism and the 501st Legion: Be the Change You Wish to see in the Galaxy
By Emily Jackson It may seem like a long time ago now, but think back to this past December. One of the greatest things to happen, besides the…
The intangible narcotic: What does ‘vibe’ mean, really?
There’s a term that comes up pretty frequently when talking about electronic music events. A search within my interviews (excepts from which are quoted here) and field notes…
The Sophie Coe Prize
Alert SAFN member Richard Wilk has called our attention to the looming May 1 deadline for submissions for the Sophie Coe Prize. What is the Sophie Coe Prize?…
Anthropology in Business?
“We Are All Anthropologists Now” aired on BBC Radio 4 in February of this year as part of a series that explores anthropology in…
Public Anthropology
To mark the publication of Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World, the author, Edward J. Hedican, provides us with a few thoughts on the impetus…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: March 2 Edition
Hello FoodAnthropology readers, we have a short round-up this week, featuring a lively internet debate about the nature of American millenials. As always, please send any links you’d…
CFP: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance
Call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance, Rome, 14 October 2016 Sponsored by…
Anthropologist John Bowen on Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
In 2015 alone, hundreds of thousands of migrants have fled war-torn Syria and elsewhere and made their way to Europe. While many Europeans have welcomed the refugees, some…
Making Knowledge Stick: Virtual Badges and Real Life Stickers
“Better than Digital Chocolate”—that’s what drew me in. It was the title of a post that found its way somehow across one of my social media feeds and…
Human Trafficking: a growing epidemic
Some sources claim that one out of every 236 people becomes a victim of human trafficking. Even more startling, sources state that every 30 seconds another person becomes…
Food Insecurity in a Globalized World: The Politics and Culture of Food Systems
This conference, taking place at Middlebury College on March 4-6, will be live streamed and recorded. The conference schedule is posted below. More information can be found here: http://www.middlebury…
The launch of Why We Post
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which represents the results of our project.…
Free e-seminar: ‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…
A dilemma at the heart of multispecies anthropology: the “inclusion” of animals
“the “inclusion” of animals is not necessarily the most interesting issue, but rather how they are included [Candea 243]. If following a classic or “Durkheimian” model, where social…
Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods
Manpreet K. Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods. London: Routledge, 2010. 185 pages, ISBN 978-415553742. Reviewed by Meraz Rahman New Mexico State Universi…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 23rd Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, I hope you enjoy this week’s round up. Please send any links you’d like to share to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Kathleen Purvis tosses some fighting words at…