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{"title":"Join Us for a Feast: Celebrating 50 Years of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition","authors":"Ariana Gunderson, Jennifer Jo Thompson","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This special issue raises a glass to 50 years of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). After its founding in 1974 as the Committee for Nutritional Anthropology within the Society for Medical Anthropology, in 1987 the organization was renamed as the Council for Nutritional Anthropology as an independent section of the American Anthropological Association, and rechristened again in 2004 as SAFN, today a Mid-Size section of AAA. Across the decades, our members have come together from across the discipline around the shared recognition of the centrality of food and nutrition in human life–to our individual bodies, our social bodies, and our body politic (Scheper-Hughes and Lock <span>1987</span>). As experts on commensality, SAFN is attuned to the power of food to nurture physical bodies, as well as emotional and social relationships.</p><p>This issue is the fruit of three panels celebrating SAFN's 50th anniversary at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Tampa, Florida. The contributors first presented their thoughts at a virtual roundtable and double in-person panel, and the commentaries provided here by Ryan Adams and Janet Chrzan grew out of their comments as panel discussants. We (Ariana and Jenn) shepherded the authors from conference papers to journal articles with the goal of preserving those histories, narratives, and visions of the field.</p><p>In addition to the scholarly fare captured in the pages to come, SAFN has supported ongoing intergenerational relationships between members. So much of our ‘business’ is done at the table. At AAA Annual Meeting receptions (often co-hosted with our sister section, Culture & Agriculture), junior and senior anthropologists share food as we share our scholarship. And within section leadership, generations of board members (cataloged by Janet Chrzan on the <span>FoodAnthropology Blog</span>) have set a place for emerging scholars–even in their first years of graduate school. We've carried that spirit forward in this issue, with contributions from founding mothers of Food and Nutritional Anthropology alongside essays by early-career and emerging scholars.</p><p>We invite you to pull up a chair and imagine this issue as a series of mealtime conversations. The first conversation is at Table 1: Genealogies. Our founding mothers, members of the earliest generation of food and nutritional anthropologists—Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Ellen Messer, Miriam Chaiken, and Carole Counihan—narrate the earliest days of food anthropology through their personal and professional trajectories: how and why the Committee for Nutritional Anthropology was founded, who was there, and how nutritional anthropology emerged as a distinct interdisciplinary subfield. Including culture and social life in the study of diet and merging methods from anthropology and nutrition, the biocultural approaches of early nutritional anthropologists have since been taken up within the fields of","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Standing on the Shoulders of Ancestors: The Emergence of Nutritional Anthropology in the Twentieth Century","authors":"Miriam Chaiken","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As we celebrate half a century as an important field in anthropology, nutritional anthropologists will benefit from a deeper understanding of our methodological and theoretical roots. This article highlights the founding scholars in our field and demonstrates that their work remains relevant decades later.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food","authors":"Janita Van Dyk","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food, my call for the “future” is to critically examine how time is necessary to understand place and placemaking in the holistic study of food. Termed <i>time work</i> in my research, this piece briefly unpacks possibilities to consider the role of time as one of practice with food (itself a temporally mediated substance) that shapes not only narratives of memory, nostalgia, or history, but also the constraints and agendas of growing and eating food. In times often glossed as climatologically or economically uncertain, such narratives further necessitate careful attention to temporalities that are made meaningful and practiced. In so doing, I suggest time can offer ways for scholars to move beyond the packaging of place and consider how temporality is put to work out of increasingly constricted margins and exclusionary territories to make values, livelihood, and belonging.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Hunger Abroad to Hunger in Our Own Backyard: A Reflection on Applying Anthropology to Campus Food Insecurity","authors":"Amanda S. Green","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the mid-2010s, food insecurity in higher education gained traction as both a concern of universities and a topic of research for scholars. In this contribution to SAFN's 50-year anniversary, I reflect on how food anthropologists have studied college student hunger over the past decade. Based on a review of SAFN member works, discussions with colleagues, and my own experience studying student food insecurity, I explore how the anthropological view, including ways of asking questions, developing studies, and interpreting data, represent a unique contribution to this field. Broadly, anthropologists seek to balance ethnographic storytelling with historic, political-economic, and structural understandings of the root causes and consequences of campus hunger and the changing dynamics of the U.S. social safety net and the U.S. college student population. Moving forward, anthropologists must “study up” to the administrative level, to where systems of structure and power lie, in order to make structural-level recommendations and changes to campus food systems that ensure food security for all students.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SAFN 50th Anniversary: Foundations and Futures","authors":"Janet Chrzan","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"My Nutritional Anthropology Journey: 1971 to 2010","authors":"Cheryl Ritenbaugh","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>My initial academic trajectory was pre-med, but early on I discovered anthropology. I soon realized that these were not disparate directions, but that some aspects of health could not be fully understood without attention to cultural aspects of behavior. Food consumption became for me a common thread across culture, archeology, human evolution, and modern epidemiology. A group of anthropology colleagues, with similar interests in the intersections of these topics, began to form, and thus I found myself as one of the founders of the Society for Nutritional Anthropology. This academic memoir focuses on the diverse biocultural topics I have embraced under this rubric, ranging from household refuse analysis (Garbology) to understanding (cultural) bias in reporting food intake, to diabetes etiology and prevention among American Indians of the US Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Canadian NWT, to the role of lack of palatable water in the etiologies of diabetes and obesity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Gift of Deliciousness: How Taste, Flavor, and Pleasure Contribute to Human and Planetary Health","authors":"Amy Bentley","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper focuses on what can be called <i>the problem of deliciousness</i>. When examining serious food-related problems such as justice and equity, nutrition and health, and sustainability and the environment, some regard taste, more specifically deliciousness, as problematic. However, as this paper shows, human pleasure in food is vital to a healthy and sustainable food system. After investigating the history of the term deliciousness, the paper proceeds to examine both negative and positive aspects of deliciousness for human and planetary health. While delectable tastes can be problematic, deliciousness is ultimately a positive gift that not only provides pleasure, commensality and conviviality, but is central to human and planetary well-being. What all people are entitled to is not just “food,” it is pleasure which is not only complementary but integral to health and sustainability.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Food System Change, Development, and Vulnerability in Semi-Agricultural Areas of Tibet","authors":"Cairang Gezang","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With social and economic development, food systems have significantly changed on the Tibetan plateau over the last two decades. However, the impact of dietary change on Tibetans and their communities remains less well known. This article examines how food change happens in semi-agricultural areas of eastern Tibet within the context of development. To do this, this research proposes an integrated analytical framework that brings together ecology, social and political economy, with food at the center of interrelationships. By focusing on ecology and adopting a systemic approach, this study highlights the connection between biology and sociocultural factors, thereby helping to bridge the lacuna between nutritional anthropology and the anthropology of food. Based on 3 months of fieldwork, the study argues that as an economy develops in semi-agricultural areas, the integrated relationship between ecology and socioeconomic practices is broken down. As a result, people have become increasingly reliant on the market for food resources, leading to the emergence of new food systems. This shift has triggered vulnerabilities in both the social and biological dimensions of people's lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regretting Reforestation: Discourses of Landscape and Culture Change in Mountain-Farming Norway","authors":"Michael Wroblewski,&nbsp;Thea R. Strand","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The rural district of Valdres in central Norway is home to one of the largest intact transhumant farming zones in Europe. The low-mountain <i>stølslandskap</i>, or “summer mountain farming landscape,” a singular, sub-polar socionature, is undergoing significant economic and environmental transition. As transhumant farming decreases and anthropogenic climate change progresses, the culturally treasured <i>stølslandskap</i> is becoming reforested and effectively disappearing. In a local reversal of global environmentalist logic, Valdres residents see this forest regeneration as a highly regrettable loss. Many believe forest regrowth is a cultural problem that should be staved off with increased, but deliberately small-scale, human and agricultural activity to restore the <i>stølslandskap</i> to its traditional state. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research among transhumant farmers in Valdres, we highlight the need to attend to local interpretations of ecologies and landscapes to develop viable environmental policies and stewardship strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Space for “us”: Sensory Ethnography as an Embodied Method in Food Anthropology","authors":"Carolyn Mason","doi":"10.1111/cuag.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Minority communities are vulnerable to poor health due to diet-related diseases, a fact that food anthropologists have long discussed. This is also something that the individuals living within constrained food environments are aware of and challenge intellectually and on an embodied basis through food choices based on cultural and physical knowledge. Recognizing our interlocutors' ability to interpret their own choices and vulnerabilities, as well as their ability to do rigorous and worthwhile theory-crafting about their own experiences, is part of recognizing alternative epistemologies and is something food anthropologists have done well. However, we may need new practices to best demonstrate and study how these experiences are manifested in ways that can't only be expressed verbally or in text. Drawing on interviews conducted in the summer of 2023 at a community-led Farmers' Market in Dallas, Texas, I found that a traditional methodology does not capture how these communities feel and live in the space. In response, I call for scholars of food anthropology to strongly and creatively emphasize their interlocutors' experience and performance through sensory ethnography. It remains important for scholars to acknowledge how community relationships allow for survival in the face of adversity. This will enrich our scholarly understanding of the emic perspective within a foodscape and allow us to engage with our interlocutors as colleagues in the study of food and nutrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cuag.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148373256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}