Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Theresa Dardar stands for a portrait on her dock in Louisiana’s Pointe-au-Chien Indian community in January 2017. Edmund D. Fountain This article was originally published at FERN and has…
For decades, conservationists have viewed subsistence hunting by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon as a contributing factor to “empty forests”—forests where trees remain but wildlife is all but…
One Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake “challah” (The Friday night…
How eating brisket shapes the future in the present. A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his…
Clues about the history—and survival—of African slaves in the Americas can be found in certain plants, such as rice. David Williams When Tinde van Andel purchased a small…
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
Photo: Colin Stone Peacock TAL’s Adam Gamwell has a new essay about his research on quinoa biodiversity in Peru out on Savage Minds blog! Excerpt: Specters of the…
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Adam Gamwell rounds out the anthropologies #22 issue on food. Gamwell is a public anthropologist and…
As a psychological anthropologist interested in alternative healing options, I recently traveled to Peru to experience ayahuasca with a shaman I had been corresponding with for some time.…
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology Msc Student Why would somebody forgo juicy steaks, delicate smoked salmon, velvety goat cheese, and the many seemingly delicious foods people eat? Why…
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Continuing with the Anthropology #22 Food issue, this next essay is from Aimee J. Hosemann, who…
Katarin Ladu is tall and thin, with short, curled hair and a face wrinkled by sunshine, age, and worry. She wears a beaded necklace, a mismatched pair of…
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the Anthropologies #22 Food issue we have this essay from Chhaya Kolavalli. –R.A.…
Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living traces patterns of consumption, calories, and chronic disease to tell a story about the enfolding––the absorption and regulation––of food in and about the bod…
Over 43 million gallons of milk has been dumped into manure pits and fields the first eight months of 2016. There is too much of it. Yet milk…
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Next in line for the Anthropologies #22 Food Issue, we have this essay by Christopher Laurent.…
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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The next installment of the Anthropologies #22 Issue on food comes from Allison Perrett, who is…
I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about a) what people were eating b) where they were shopping, and c)…
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Up next for the anthropologies #22 food issue, we have an essay by Fernando Valerio Holguín.*–R.A.…
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The anthropologies food issue continues! Up next we have an essay from cultural anthropologist Christy Shields-Argelès,…
This NPR piece — How Native American Tribes Saved A Giant, Ancient Squash From Oblivion — offers an interesting example for thinking about the everyday impacts of colonization…