As complex institutions extend into and govern greater spheres of social life, ethnographers
contend with policy in an ever-widening range of fieldsites. This review examines …

What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and
cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This …

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in
its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes …

Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

The popular narrative of" globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying
obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied …

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly
engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play …

Global climate change and the continued neoliberalization of food systems have
exacerbated levels of food insecurity and hunger, producing an ever-expanding population …

In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors
transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place …

Within conventional scientific and policy analyses of malnutrition in all its forms, three forms
of malnutrition are commonly distinguished: under-nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and …

A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in
expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not …