What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: February 17 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, here’s a selection of reads that intrigued us over the last week: Though it began in January, I only recently discovered the site Grounded Women:…
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The Morning After: anthropology and the Ebola hangover, by Anne Menzel and Anita Schroven
The morning after a long night a well-deserved hangover can be treated with a variety of potent remedies. There is black coffee with lemon, raw egg with Tabasco,…
The Morning After: Anthropology and the Ebola Hangover, by Anne Menzel and Anita Schroven (2016)
The morning after a long night a well-deserved hangover can be treated with a variety of potent remedies. There is black coffee with lemon, raw egg with Tabasco,…
Activist Chefs and the Food Movement
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few weeks ago, Greg de St. Maurice wrote an intriguing piece on this blog about chef activism. He drew on the…
What does social media tell us about sociality in Grano?
‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video]. So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my…
Why do you love anthropology?
Why do you anthropology? We thought we’d get an early start celebrating Valentine’s Day and the Feb. 18 Anthropology Day event by sharing the #AnthroLove. Read the responses below from…
Meet Your Makers: First Contact Scenarios in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
By Emma Louise Backe Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) was an epic, existential prologue to Alien (1979) over twenty years in the making. The movie expands upon the universe…
“Creative Connections” with J.R.R. Tolkien: Teaching Anthropology with Imaginative Literature
In Part One of an ongoing series, Leah McCurdy (University of Texas, San Antonio) shares her ideas for integrating imaginative literature into the anthropology classroom. How do J.R.R.…
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…
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…