David Beriss Last week we announced the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. You can read that … More
Category: anthropology of food
Review: Ark of Taste Kenya
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, … More
Review: Embodying Biodiversity
Terese Gagnon, ed. Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty. 274 pp. University of Arizona Press. 2024. ISBN: 9780816553983 … More
Review: Protecting industrial food profits by re-shaping science
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona … More
Review: Rice and Baguette
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard … More
Review: Frostbite
Nicola Twilley. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Penguin. NY. 2024, pp. 387 ISBN: 9780735223288. Richard … More
2024 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her … More
2024 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
The 2024 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student award goes to Armani Stewart for her project titled “Mapping Black Women’s Food Geographies: … More
2024 SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 SAFN Student Research Award is Majeed Malhas. Malhas won … More
Big Food’s Corporate Science Takes Firm Hold in China
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. … More