SAFN member and food and environmental anthropologist Mark Anthony Arceño will be hosting a panel discussion next Wednesday, June 15th, … More
Category: film
Review: The Automat
David Beriss The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz. 2021, 1hr 18 minutes. I ate in an Automat only one time. … More
Some Pig
David Beriss What is it we fear most in our food supply in the post-industrial West? Food shortages? Industrialized food? … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 21, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we … More
Unlikely Eats: Paying Homage to Marge Gunderson in Minnesota
Frances Santagate Sutton Going to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association? Readers of the blog who … More
The Best Food Film Not About Food
David Beriss University of New Orleans Is it possible that the best food movie ever made is not a food … More
Food Forward on PBS
David Beriss University of New Orleans Food Forward is a new documentary series on PBS focusing on people experimenting with … More
CFP: Anthropology of Child Feeding
CFP for Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association December 3-7, 2014, Washington, D.C. Panel Organizers: Chelsea Wentworth (University of … More
Anarchist Table Manners
David Sutton Department of Anthropology Southern Illinois University So you’re seated at a table with a dozen strangers. Hungry, you’ve … More
Smokin’ Fish, Smokin’ Culture
by David Beriss Is it possible to be an authentic Indian in a society overrun with tourists who want to … More
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