Nico Slate. Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind. University of Washington Press. Seattle: 2019. … More
Category: anthropology of food
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 9, 2020
David Beriss After a long hiatus, FoodAnthropology returns with a brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our … More
“What counts is the imagination of ham, rather than its actual existence,” An Interview with Joelle Bahloul
In this third installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food, David Sutton talks with Joelle Bahloul, whose … More
Intercultural Learning Community on Food, Culture and Social Justice, Part II
Joan Gross Oregon State University Just as our fall term was wrapping up at Oregon State University, the Intercultural Learning … More
Review: Taste, Politics and Identities in Mexican Food
Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food, Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 240 pp. ISBN # 9781350066670 Emily Ramsey … More
“I Remember the Day I said ‘Okay, I’ve Read Everything,’” an Interview with Carole Counihan
David Sutton Here is the second in my series of video interviews with food anthropologists. This one is with Dr. … More
Review: Introducing the Study of Food and Eating AND Food Studies
Murcott, Anne. Introducing the Sociology of Food and Eating. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. … More
Review: Food Justice and Narrative Ethics
Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism. Beth A. Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018 ISBN #9781350054561. … More
SAFN Members will be busy at AAAs in Vancouver!
Jennifer Jo Thompson As always, food serves as an interdisciplinary site for investigating a wide range of urgent social issues. … More