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Category: book reviews

Review: A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, Eric Holt-Giménez, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Jo … More

book review, food activism, food first, food studies, Holt-Gimenez

Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work

Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So … More

food, research, reviews, work

Review: Two Books on Hunger and Food Security

De Schutter, Olivier. and Cordes, Kaitlin Y. 2011. Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in an Era of Globalisation. … More

economics, Food policy, food politics, hunger, scarcity

Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods

Manpreet K. Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods. London: Routledge, 2010. 185 pages, ISBN 978-415553742. Reviewed … More

Anthropology of Food, Bangladesh, Bengal, book review, India

Lentil Underground

  Ellen Messer Tufts University Carlisle, Liz. Lentil Underground. Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America. NY: Gotham … More

agriculture, Anthropology, food studies

Southern Provisions

Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions.  The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine.  Chicago: University of … More

Anthropology of Food, book reviews, history

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity

Review of: Warner, Mark S. 2015. Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity. Gainesville: University Press of … More

African American, Anthropology, archaeology, foodways, review

Book Review: Secrets from the Greek Kitchen

Review of Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and the Everyday Life on an Aegean Island. By David E. Sutton … More

Anthropology of Food, book review, ethnography, Greek cooking, Greek cuisine

Book Review: Food Policy in the United States

Wilde, Parke. 2013. Food Policy in the United States. An Introduction. Routledge, Earthscan Food & Agriculture series, New York and London. Ellen … More

Anthropology of Food, Food policy, Food security, sustainability

Book Review: The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Biesele, Megan and Robert K. Hitchcock (2013) The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence. Development, Democracy, and Indigenous … More

Africa, development, economics, Food policy, Food security, globalization

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