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…
You’re invited to SAFN’s 2025 Business Meeting
November 10, 2025 from 3 pm – 4 pm on ZoomZoom: Find your link on AAA Communities or on the…
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