More Anthropology Bullshit
Anthropology is beyond parody these days. I don’t know if young anthropologists realise how silly they look – I assume they don’t, or they’d stop doing what…
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Bare Feet
Encoding Poverty, Backwardness, and Dependency in US Military Imagery Bare feet. Ever since I was a small child, I have been made aware of how not wearing…
Nostalgia for a field Christmas
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now, December 20th Edition
December 20, 2015: Food Tank put together a list of their 15 favorite books from the last year, which includes sure-to-be-classics on agriculture, food politics, and food security: Food…
WhatsApp ban in Brazil: the word on the ground
The text above the image reads: ‘me without WhatsApp’. In this post Juliano Spyer suggests that the vocal backlash against the recent blocking of WhatsApp in…
The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology #CLASSIC
At the end of 2015 Allegra launched a virtual survey among junior and senior anthropologists in order to select the 30 essential books in anthropology, a list of…
Michael Kimmel, “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era”
Michael Kimmel View on Amazon Michael Kimmel is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. He is also executive director of the Center…
CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management
Note from the editor: The following CFP was noted with interest here at FoodAnthropology. It seems like there are probably a number of anthropologists whose research would be…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now, Dec 15 Edition
Happy December 15, everyone! Here are some of the interesting things we read this week. If you have a link you’d like to share, please email it to…
“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Teenagers on social media in southeast Italy – quantitative data
In this blog post I will take a look to the quantitative data from my fieldwork, discussing some findings from a questionnaire I conducted with students in their…
Food Studies Awards Galore!
FoodAnthropology recently posted the call for papers for the 2016 ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS conference, which SAFN is also sponsoring and which, if you are looking for an excellent reason to…
And Still the World Pursued–The Management of Waste in Max Mad: Fury Road
By Emma Louise Backe Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man What are the roots that…
Anthropology of Risk
One day I asked my friend, a manger at Canadian hedge-fund giant DGAM, if he was aware that anthropology had a whole sub-area devoted to the study of…
Shakespeares in the the Ghetto: The Art and Economics of Serbian Hip Hop
I have written a feature essay on Serbian hip hop for the inaugural issue of Peeps, a new Canadian magazine which tracks global cultural trends. The editors call…
Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg – by Theresa Leisgang
Walking home: Anthropology step by step Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg “Where are you from?” “Here, I am Afghan. In Afghanistan, I am…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: December 6 Edition
December 6, 2015: For the Paris climate talks this week, an article in The Conversation argues that food–production, consumption, and everything in between–must be part of the climate…
Public anthropology plenary at the Melbourne AAS conference
I was excited to convene the plenary with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Tess Lea and Greg Downey. Each of them have an amazing track record in bringing anthropology to bear…
CFP: Best Annual Food Studies Conference!
Here is the call for papers for the best annual food studies conference in North America with the most confusing name. This is the annual joint meeting of…
Why the world needs anthropology
Standplaats Wereld has just published a nice report by Giulia Sinatti from the recent symposium, “Why the World Needs Anthropologists – Burning Issues of Our Hot Planet” in…
SAFN at the 2015 AAA Meeting in Denver
Rachel Black SAFN President Connecticut College It was a busy and productive AAA Meeting for the Society for the the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Our section sponsored…