Category: anthropology of food

Review: Land of Famished Beings

Sophie Chao. Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. Duke University Press. 2025. ISBN: 9781478032038. 272 pp. Terese V, Gagnon (UNC-Chapell … More

Review: Will Work for Food

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares. Will Work for Food Labor across the Food Chain. University of California Press. 2025. ISBN: … More

Review: Truffles and Trash

Kelly Alexander. Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State. The University of North Carolina Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781469678597 Nafsika … More

Review: All Consuming

Ruby Tandoh. All Consuming:  Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now.  Knopf.  New York.  2025.  ISBN:   979-8-217-20786-2. Richard Zimmer, Sonoma State University We are all foodies … More

Review: Chinese Espresso

Grazia Ting Deng. Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2024. 288 … More

Review: Happy Meat

Josée Johnston, Shyon Bauman, Emily Huddart, Merin Oleschuk. Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea. Stanford University … More

Review: On Hunger

Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii … More