As part of its ongoing market research efforts, a Seattle-based company employs a dozen anthropologists and sociologists. Every one of them has a Ph.D. The researchers are accompanying consumers on their supermarket trips and peeking in their refrigerato… more »
Category: "food and drink"
by lorenz on Jun 6, 2005 in culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, food and drink
Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal "Anthropology of Food", edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO - Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about "coalho" cheese in the northea… more »
UPDATE (5.6.05): Link is corrected. They have moved the article to an earlier issue of the journal
Tom WILSON: Globalization, Differenciation and Drinking Cultures: an anthropological perspective. Drinking culture in Ireland, at home or in more public… more »
Science Blog / University of Arizona
Timothy W. Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, has spent the last 10 years measuring food loss, including the last eight under a grant from the U.S. Department of Agricult… more »
Boston University
To observe the city’s changing cuisines, Anthropology Professor Merry White White and her students travel to some of the best-known and least-known ethnic neighborhoods in the city, where they have a chance to study food as it relate… more »
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