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Comment on Dreamworlds of the Store-Bought Loaf by A day of bread | Learning to be Laura

A day of bread | Learning to be Laura — Sat, 04 May 2013 02:00:25 +0000

[...] White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf which looks very interesting. Here is a quick write-up of it from FoodAnthropology which is one of my new favorite blogs to [...]

Comment on Graduate Programs by Amity DuPeuple

Amity DuPeuple — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:19:01 +0000

This is not, necessarily, a defined food anthropology program. However, some of the faculty have strong backgrounds in food, food systems, and agriculture. Often times it is more about the people you work with and how you tailor your education, not so much about the name of the program.
http://socianth.concordia.ca/graduates/jointphdinsocialandculturalstudies/

Comment on Graduate Programs by Rena Chen (@Rena_Chen)

Rena Chen (@Rena_Chen) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:34:55 +0000

There’s the New School Food Studies program as well!
http://www.newschool.edu/continuing-education/food-studies/

Comment on Behind a Forager, the Pickers: Wild Food Production’s Other Side by From mushrooms to dandelions, foraged food finds way to U.S. tables

From mushrooms to dandelions, foraged food finds way to U.S. tables — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:23:41 +0000

[...] Behind a Forager, the Pickers: Wild Food Production’s Other Side (foodanthro.com) [...]

Comment on Behind a Forager, the Pickers: Wild Food Production’s Other Side by Behind a Forager, the Pickers: Wild Food Production’s Other Side | Dylan Gordon

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:03:46 +0000

[...] Behind a Forager, the Pickers: Wild Food Production’s Other Side originally published on FoodAnthropology, the site of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and [...]

Comment on Proposed AAA Panel: Foodways in Discourse and Practice by Amber

Amber — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:24:36 +0000

Deadline extended to March 1.

Comment on AAA Panel CFP! Eating in the City: Foodways, Publics, and Urban Transformation by Anthropology Update & Book, Race: Are We So Different? | Anthropology Report

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:54:20 +0000

[...] AAA Panel CFP! Eating in the City: Foodways, Publics, and Urban Transformation Eating has become a provocative and political element of urban contestation. Through food, publics are effectively (re)defined and urban futures popularly (re)imagined. As cities transform, the ways that people eat and procure food also change, along with the sociocultural meanings of food itself. This panel will explore the relationships between these contemporary urban processes and changing food habits. These shifting patterns of consumption and production can be linked to a variety of intertwined processes at global and urban scales — from cycles of de-industrialization and gentrification in the global north to the rapidly urbanizing megacities of the developing world. Food studies scholars have noted the impact of such urban transformations on diets, from the (post)Fordist homogenization of industrially produced food to the highly differentiated food landscapes of today’s gentrified cities. [...]

Comment on Another Proposed AAA Panel: Human Experience in the Genomic/Post-Genomic Age by The Foraging Spectrum - and a spectrum of anthropology blogs | Anthropology Report

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:04:43 +0000

[...] Another Proposed AAA Panel: Human Experience in the Genomic/Post-Genomic Age With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome and subsequent onset of the Genomic/Post-Genomic Age, genetic technology now plays a more prominent role in many aspects of modern day life. Applications of genetic technologies may be found within medicine, law enforcement, food production, and human reproduction. Given the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms, assisted reproductive technologies, genetic databases used in law enforcement, direct to consumer genetic tests and the like, it is imperative to ask how genetic technologies have affected various facets of the human experience. Have traditional boundaries regarding how people understand themselves and others changed as a result of the use of DNA technologies? How has the relationship between science and cultural aspects of identity, privacy, kinship, food, et cetera been altered as a result of an improved scientific understanding of genetics? [...]

Comment on Graduate Programs by Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:28:30 +0000

Marylhurst in Portland, OR, just came out with a new MS in Food Systems and Society.

http://marylhurst.edu/academics/schools-colleges-departments/school-graduate-studies/food-systems-society/apply/apply-ms-food-systems-society.html

Comment on CFP: Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes by Update January 2013 - Anthropology of Development & more! | Anthropology Report

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:15:38 +0000

[...] Call for Participation: Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes, The concepts of “foodscapes” and “landscapes” invite us to consider the broader conditions, connections and consequences of food and agricultural issues. Food is more than a simple problem of consumer behavior, just as land use involves more than farmer or policy decisions. Foodscape and landscape perspectives situate the producing, distributing, acquiring and eating of food within a richer and more complex understanding of social, cultural, economic and political processes. [...]