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#REVIEW: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town

In his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance

May, 2015 / By Simrat Kang

“The symbolic power of foods…is different from (even if related in some manner to) the tactical and structural power that

May, 2015 / By Daniel Münster

In The Darjeeling Distinction, Sarah Besky provides a highly readable and theoretically ambitious ethnography of tea plantations in West Bengal’s

In recent years, the issue of food insecurity in the developed world has gone from being met with denial to

Dan Jurafsky, computational linguist at Stanford University, achieved what many academics only dream of when his blog The Language of

This post marks the third part of our special review section on Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and

April, 2015 / By Isabel Fletcher

This post represents the second installment in our Special Review Section on Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and

April, 2015 / By Jessica Hardin

Our special review section on Eating Right in America features posts from three fantastic reviewers working together to each emphasise

April, 2015 / By Julie Boticello

This post marks the second installment of our special review section on Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage. Edible Identities,

This post marks the first installment of our special review section on Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage. Discussing and