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 …

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and
engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the …

Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We
focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not …

Sackett and colleagues (1996: 71) originally defined evidence-based medicine (EBM) as
“the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions …

The recent push for multidisciplinary collaboration confronts anthropologists with a long‐
standing ethnographic problem. The terms we have to talk about what we do are very often …

In this article, I explore how Marind communities in West Papua experience and interpret
hunger. Drawing from Indigenous discourse and practice, I examine how agro-industrial …

Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, molecular techniques of mapping
chemosensation (the chemical senses of taste and smell) have been woven into a …

Where is the local for the ethnographer? A challenge facing anthropological interest in “local
biologies” is that both biology and locality are put into practice in different ways. I draw on …

This study takes the role of food preference in food insecurity analysis seriously. Guided by
feminist political ecology, I do so by underscoring bodily relationships to tuo zaafi a cereal …

In this article, I examine how the emergence of chronic conditions such as diabetes,
hypertension and heart disease reshapes perceptions of time, embodiment, ageing and the …