SAFN member Ellen Messer has written to us here at SAFN World Headquarters about the virtual International Conference on the … More
Category: anthropology of food
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 26, 2021
David Beriss Do you teach courses related to the anthropology of food and nutrition? From intro courses on food and … More
Review: Freedom Farmers
Monica M. White. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN # … More
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
