Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of…
Review: On Hunger
Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii…
The Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is On!
SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food anthropology related photos that…
Goat: America’s Forgotten Meat?
Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started pondering this question after I returned…
Review: Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Ives, Sarah. Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea. Duke University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6993-6 xv +…
AFHVS/ASFS 2026 Conference Call for Abstracts
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study…
Working on Family in The Bear Season 4
David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) I last wrote about The Bear[1] on this weblog about a year and a half…
Methods Dispatch: Grocery Shop-Alongs
Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to conduct my dissertation fieldwork on fake…
Review: Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead
Alexander Strecker (ed). Bread for the LIving, Bread for the Dead. Tavros Press, Athens 2025. 137 pp. ISBN 978-618-87697-0-0 David…
SAFN 2025 AAA Annual Meeting Program and Special Events
We look forward to seeing many of SAFN’s members at the AAA meeting in New Orleans. For those of you…
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