Food Anthro for Middle Schoolers: All About Bread
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Plan and submit your sessions for the joint 2024 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in Tampa Florida. The time has come to start planning and…
Photo Neni Panourgiá. Necromancer (The Oracle of the Dead) by the river Acheron, Greece. Jugs that held cereal and other seed offerings to the shrine. 14th-13th century BCE.…
Food – Media – Senses: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz, and Eva Wattolik (editors). Transcript, 2023. 330 pps. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9 Emily Contois (University of …
Neni PanourgiáJustice-in-Education Initiative, Heyman Center for the HumanitiesColumbia University The Beginning My father would cut the bread against his chest. Winter or summer, dressed for d…
Overthought, but tasty. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green and Jennifer Jo Thompson Student, professional, or retired. Academic or practicing. New member or lapsed. You have a place at…
Natsuko Tsujimura. Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways. Lexington Books. New York. 2023. ISBN: 9781498571333. pp. 287. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State Universi…
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
Hunter Calvert SAFN is pleased to announce that the annual Christine Wilson undergraduate paper award winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert for his paper on “Relationships as Infrastructure: Unde…
Lunch at Stella Maris Cafe, Arabi, Louisiana. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss In planning my classes this year, I did not count on war. I am teaching Food…
Ariana Gunderson Here is a schedule of all the SAFN events, panels, and food-oriented panels sponsored by other sections. For your easy reference, our events are also listed…
Langa Township, Cape Town. Smoke billows as Yonela sears a sheep head with a hot metal rod, cleaning off any remaining wool. This is part of the cleaning…
F/X Studios David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) After this summer’s release of season 2 of The Bear on Hulu, it seems that anyone interested in the world of…
Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, (eds). Communicating Food in Korea. Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland. 2021. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781793642271. Richard Zimmer (Sonom…
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a policy by the Greek government designed to help…
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with…
Cheuk Kwan. Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World. Pegasus Books. New York and London. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-63936-334-6. pp. 260. …
“Throw us what you’ve got!” Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles As the new Section Editor for SAFN, I…
This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and papers for the annual AAA/CASCA meeting in Toronto.…
Scott Alves BartonUniversity of Notre Dame The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed with lemongrass, turmeric, galangal or ginger. Often there…
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…
Venetia Johannes. Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia. Berghahn Books. New York: 2022. ISBN: 978-1-80073-203-2. Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) …
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN # 9780231192446 Emily Contois (The University of Tulsa)…