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

2025 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!

SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown, for … More

Review: Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability

Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 … More

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: Translating Food Sovereignty

Canfield, Matthew C. Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance. Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 2022. … More

The Food Security Myth: Struggle Toward Food Sovereignty in Benin

Segnide J. Guidimadjegbe Oregon State University I was born and raised in Benin, a West African Country that is used … More

The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right 2021 Award Winner!

SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2021 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Ileana Diaz, of the University … More

Hunger, Religion, and Public Anthropology

Betsy Taylor Is feeding the hungry, a key moral value in religious teachings across cultures? I was recently asked this … More

“La gente tiene que comer”: Food and COVID-19

Lisa Grabinsky Oregon State University “La gente tiene que comer.” (“People have to eat”), my mother replied when I decided … More