Emily de Wet I sit with Yonela (a pseudonym) as smoke collects under the wooden awning built to protect her … More
Tag: Anthropology of Food
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a … More
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during … More
Submit to SAFN’s column in Anthropology News!
Ariana Gunderson Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles As the new Section Editor for SAFN, I am … More
SAFN AAA Networking!
This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and … More
Soup for Breakfast: Cambodia
Scott Alves BartonUniversity of Notre Dame The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed … More
Seeking PhD theses for review!
Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of … More
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, A New Year
David Beriss A new year and a new column. As a reminder, this is a brief digest of food and … More
Waffle House: Sameness, Diversity and Southern Image
Andrew Mitchel and Laurie K. SmithThe Ohio State University Waffle House occupies a distinct space in the American culinary imaginary. … More