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Author: kgraf

Thesis review: Acting Locally – Vegetable Gardening In Southern Illinois

PhD thesis by Aimee L. Trojnar, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, 2024. Reviewer: Virginia D. Nazarea (University of Georgia) … More

Anthropology of Food, community garden, ecosystem, ethnography, multispecies, nonhuman agency, plant blindness, sensory experience, sustainability

Thesis Review: Bittersweet – Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland

Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. 2022. Francesca … More

diet, ethnography, food, Food policy, health, nutrition, PhD thesis review, sugar

Seeking PhD theses for review!

Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of … More

Anthropology of Food, food studies, graduate research, graduate students, PhD thesis review

Thesis Review: Tasting Tea, Tasting China

Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms and the Everyday Culture in Dalian. Yingkun Hou. Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, … More

China, drinking, gustemology, senses, synesthesia, taste, tea

Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine

Thesis review and discussion by Richard Wilk: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine, written by Nafsika Papacharalampous

crisis, deli, economic insecurity, exoneration of the rural, food activism, Greek cuisine, reinvention of tradition, restaurants

Thesis Review: Ethical Constellations of Muslim Food Practice in Mumbai

Photographs by Shaheed Tayob I’m delighted to post this exciting PhD thesis review, which nicely complements the recently posted review … More

Eid ul-Adha, ethics, faith, halal, Lived Islam, Mumbai, Muslim food, niyat, religion

Thesis Review: Tasting in Mundane Practices

  Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if … More

reviews

Thesis Review and Interview: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisine, and Culture in Maharashtra, India

Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews … More

food, health, reviews

Thesis Review: Placing the Apple

Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent … More

food, local, research, reviews

Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work

Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So … More

food, research, reviews, work

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