Bunk is not Bunn: A Silly Claim about the Origin of Coffee
In a non-academic website called Atlas Obscura, there is an article with the entertaining title: “Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It.” The article was written…
In a non-academic website called Atlas Obscura, there is an article with the entertaining title: “Before Drinking Coffee, People Washed Their Hands With It.” The article was written…
Edward F. Fischer. Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value. University of California Press. Berkeley: 2022. ISBN: 978-0-520-38696-9 David Sutton (Souther…
Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.
The British Government issued an official handbook on Yemen in 1917. This has recently been uploaded to the Qatar Digital Library. One of the sections gives a general…
Facing language problems in Peru’s new coffee economy During a recent trip to the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Southern Peru, I hiked out to a remote corner of the…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/language-coffee-and-migration-on-an-andean-amazonian-frontier Interview by Gaya Morris This book is an ethnography of multilingualism in the Alto Urubamba Valley, on …
Today, coffee is consumed everywhere in the world. Despite its neo-colonial forms of production, it is a drink which brings people together, but the consumption of coffee in…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Christine Wilson Awards. These awards are presented to outstanding undergraduate and graduate student research papers that examine topics…
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the Anthropologies #22 series. For the third installment of the anthropologies food issue, we have an essay from William Cotter…
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous groups from around the world in…
“ Refugees from Syria arrive in Europe (Photo from Al Jazeera) Refugees in Europe: Care is reasonable and possible Bloomberg News carried an article on the European…
Remember resistance to domination? This was a very popular theme in cultural studies in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Eventually it reached a saturation point where, like…
Disenchantment and British politics Emma Crewe, social anthropologist and research associate at SOAS, the University of London, published an op-ed in the Times Higher Education (U.K.) on how…
It looks like Brazil will surpass the U.S. this year as the world’s biggest consumer of coffee. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is driving up global…