CFP: AAA 2016 in Minneapolis
Call for Papers Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Your opportunity to present at the 115th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN November 16-20, 201…
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CFP: Multispecies panels at the ASA2016 (Durham 4th-7th)
Panels at the ASA 2016 (Durham 4th-7th July) As the deadline for the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists is this Monday (15th February), we’d thought…
A close-up look at Chinese social media platforms
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
Everybody’s an Ethnographer!
Dhruv Sharma has a background in anthropology, has worked in various countries as an ethnographer, and also holds a master’s degree in design ethnography from Dundee University. His doctoral …
Feelings into words: Harvest Festival Part 2
Describing, in words, what it’s like to be at a rave is one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do for my research. How can one…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 9th Edition
February 9, 2016: Hi FoodAnthropology readers, We have a reader contribution to kick us off this week: Food, Art, and History at the Getty Center: If anyone is…
Are Teaching and Learning Among the Things We Do For Love?
Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana of UCLA suggested that there is a “‘Love’ Revolution” underway in education as reaction against the punitive and judgment-drenc…
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking back on our goals for 2015, you might notice that we didn’t exactly keep up with our objectives. What happened? Which brings me to another questions you…
Status Check
I’ve been quiet the last few months. Let me explain. First, I’ve been writing/thinking/crafting my dissertation. It examines family experiences with undiagnosed children, particularly thos…
Lentil Underground
Ellen Messer Tufts University Carlisle, Liz. Lentil Underground. Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America. NY: Gotham Books, 2015. Lentil Underground is a book that…
They flirt, they share porn and they gossip
The last four months of 2015 were tough. I was locking myself in a claustrophobic student carrel every day, spending 9 hours staring at a computer screen but…
Taking Risks in Teaching Anthropology, Part II
This is the second of a two-part blog post in which Suzanne Z. Gottschang from Smith College outlines the benefits of integrating real-world examples into an introductory cultural…
AFHVS 2016 STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER AWARDS
We have received the following announcement from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. Please note that students cannot apply for both this award and the ASFS awards,…
10 Trillion Gallons of Water Should Drown China’s Yangtze Gorges World Heritage Application
The Three Gorges Dam Main Wall, 2006. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Yangtze River begins in the Tibetan Plateau and flows eastward into the East China Sea at Shanghai. …
Taking Risks in Teaching Anthropology, Part I
This is the first of a two-part blog post in which Suzanne Z. Gottschang from Smith College outlines the benefits of integrating a real-world assignment into her introductory…
Hospital Food
Guest Contributor: David Shane Lowry, Assistant Professor, Chicago Medical School and College of Health Professions I worked as a technician for five years (between 2007 and 2012) in…
Chefs as activists–Daniel Giusti takes on America’s school lunches
Greg de St. Maurice Ryukoku University Chefs today wield a great deal of influence. They are (or are expected to be) simultaneously artisans, entrepreneurs, activists, and celebrities. In…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 2 Edition
February 2: A lot of thought-provoking food news this week, FoodAnthro readers! As always, if you have a link you’d like to share, please email it to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu…
Global Warming: trends and consequences
Recently, health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a travel alert for Central, South America and the Caribbean, some 14 countries and territories exposed to…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict
John Postill (RMIT) Philipp Budka (Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash), eds. In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stremlau (2014) found that…
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 2)
Ellen Messer Tufts University (Part 1 of this 2 part series is here.) As a possible antidote or balance for someone seeking ways ag-biotech might contribute to sustainable…
My name is Erin, and I’m an archaeologist…
Hi! My name is Erin, and I’m an archaeologist. My research areas are diverse, as is often the case, but if I have to narrow it down to…
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 1)
Ellen Messer Tufts University Krimsky, Sheldon and Jeremy Gruber, eds. 2014. The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know About the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families…
“D.C. is Mambo Sauce”
Early in my fieldwork, I met Kameron (pseudonym) at Denny’s, the only sit down restaurant in Ward 7 at the time. Our conversation spanned several topics, but when…