Monica M. White. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN # … More
Category: anthropology of food
Flat Tuesday
David Beriss Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, and it is usually the occasion for the big blow out celebration … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 28, 2021
David Beriss The pandemic grinds on and we read. We read and we listen to podcasts, which proliferate like tribbles, … More
Review: Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread Throughout History Predrag Matvejević. Translated from the … More
Review: The Labor of Lunch
Gaddis, Jennifer E. (2019). The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools. … More
Review: Food Festivals
Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN #978-3-030-53321-2. … More
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2021
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won … More
Iowa’s Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Land for Food Production in the U.S.
Paul Durrenberger In Grapes of Wrath American writer John Steinbeck told the disheartening story of defeated farmers in 1939 Oklahoma. … More
Christine Wilson 2020 Graduate Award Winner
SAFN is happy to announce that the 2020 winner of the Christine Wilson Award for a graduate student is Terese … More
Christine Wilson 2020 Undergraduate Award Winner!
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele … More
