Podcast Interview Round Up November-December: New Books in Anthropology
Hi there, it’s time for the latest round up of interviews from by New Books in Anthropology. Long and luxurious discussions with authors about…
Read MoreHi there, it’s time for the latest round up of interviews from by New Books in Anthropology. Long and luxurious discussions with authors about…
Read MoreThe Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. Darjeeling is…
Read MoreThe subject of EXPO 2015 is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, which coincides with the “European Year for Development”. The European page contains…
Read MorePatterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
Read MoreThis project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the…
Read MoreI welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country…
Read MoreLong-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of…
Read MoreIn his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical…
Read More“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that sets the outermost terms…
Read MoreIn The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. Besky critically…
Read MoreIn recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to receiving at least somber…
Read MoreDan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of Food – a collection…
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