2do Colóquio de Antropologia e Etnologia de la Alimentación

Associação para uma Antropologia da Comida e da Nutrição

About SAFN

Overview

The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), was organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition. SAFN has the following objectives:

• To encourage research and exchange of ideas, theories, methods and scientific information relevant to understanding the socio-cultural, behavioral and political-economic factors related to food and nutrition;
• To provide a forum for communication and interaction among scientists sharing these interests and with other appropriate organizations;
• To promote practical collaboration among social and nutritional scientists at the fields and program levels.

Current Officers

John Brett
President
University of Colorado Denver
Department of Anthropology
John.Brett@ucdenver.edu

Sera Young
Vice-President
Cornell University
Division of Nutritional Sciences
sera.young@cornell.edu
www.serayoung.org

Kenneth Maes
SAFN Treasurer
Oregon State University
Anthropology
kenneth.maes@oregonstate.edu

2004 Name Change

To more fully engage the spectrum of theoretical and methodological perspectives of individuals AAA-wide, at the 2003 meetings a motion was made by the then CNA Executive Board to put a name change to a vote by its membership during the spring 2004 AAA Elections. The ballot question was passed and changed the organization’s name from ‘Council on Nutritional Anthropology’ (CNA) to ‘Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition’ (SAFN).

+ INfos: http://foodanthro.com/

História da Alimentação

...em dois minutos!

Food, Drink and Hospitality: Space, Materiality, Practice

The event will take place on Friday the 14th of June at the British Sociological Association's London Meeting Room. 

The event is being organised in association with Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University, the British Sociological Association's Food Study Group and the Hospitality & Society journal. 

Further details about the venue, the cost and booking arrangements can be found at the end of the post.

Programme 

09.15 Arrival and refreshments

09.45 Welcome (Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

10.00 Session 1

Tastes of the ‘mongrel’ city: Geographies of memory, spice, hospitality and forgiveness

Jean Duruz

Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Australia

The smell of hospitality: A phenomenological analysis of gjellëtore in Kosova

Arsim Canolli,

Department of Anthropology, University College of London, UK 

11.00 Break  

11.15 Session 2

“Luxurious simplicity”: Self-sufficient food practices and hospitality in Italian ecovillages

Alice Brombin

Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

Poverty entered our homes! Creating hospitable spaces and managing the current economic, social and political crisis in Greece

Vasiliki Kravva

Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Food, gender and refugee community moments

Hannah Lewis

School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Session 3

Practicing conviviality: Notes from the public spaces of ‘pay-what-you want’ restaurants

Regan Koch

Department of Geography, University College London, UK

Quantifying the organoleptic triangle: Inputs, outputs and user experience

Baudouin C. R. Neirynck and Mark A. M. Gibson

Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR, PR of China

Extraordinary restaurants as sites of friendship

Andrea Tonner

Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

15.15 Break

15.30 Session 4

Fierce Craic in Clapham – A sociological investigation

Marie Bune and Brendan Ruane

Faculty of Business, London South Bank University, UK

Postcard imagery – A twentieth century visual culinary and social history

Paul Cleave

Business School, University of Exeter, UK 

A “Gift from God”? : Tradition and pragmatism in Georgian hospitality

Costanza Curro

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

17.00 Closing comments and discussion

Participants are invited to drinks and an informal meal after the event, but the cost of these are not included in the event fee.

Venue address: Suite 2, 2 Station Court, Imperial Wharf, Townmead Road, Fulham, SW6 2PY

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25083/BSA_Imperial_Wharf_directions041209.pdf

Cost (including lunch and refreshments): £45 (£35 for students and BSA members)

Booking: http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=81&deptid=27&catid=34 (Places are limited and you are advised to book as soon as possible. The deadline for booking for a place is the 7th of June)

Online version of the programme:http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/51781/Food_Programme_030413.pdf 

Fully-funded PhD studentships at Cardiff School of Planning & Geography

Cardiff School of Planning & Geography have a number of fully-funded PhD studentships available in the school for the 2013/14 academic year related to food security, rural/urban flows and community food growing & animal farming (deadline 4pm Friday 3rd May 2013).

The School of Planning & Geography (CPLAN) will be the home school for these studentship positions. With around 60 research-active staff and around 50 research students, the School is a major international centre for research in the areas of human geography, planning and spatial policy. Consistently ranked among the top departments in the UK in successive Research Assessment Exercises, it aims to play an internationally leading role in research and academic inquiry associated with debates around the development, management and sustainability of cities, regions and rural spaces. Often taking an interdisciplinary approach, the School’s current research expertise includes: environmental governance, geographies of food, more-than-human geographies, regional resilience, economic development and regional competitiveness, social and environmental justice, spatial planning, urban design and the integration and visualisation of spatial data.

Further information on these studentships and how to apply can be found at: 

http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R1054.html

The International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF)

The general aims of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF)are to promote and coordinate collaboration and research in biological and social anthropology in regard to the sciences of food and nutrition, fostering in particular a pluridisciplinary approach.

ICAF is a commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

Honorary Members:

Mary Douglas - Igor de Garine - Annie Hubert

further information will be available soon 

What's new (March 2013) see on: http://www.icafood.eu/

 

The Aims of ICAF

The aims of the Commission are :

•	To assist world anthropologists in their basic and applied research on food.
•	To encourage indigenous expertise on food problems in developing countries.
•	To promote the collaboration of anthropologists with institutions and individual experts from related fields of study.
•	To stimulate education and training in the anthropology of food.

Anthropologists, with their traditional interest in the place of food in social life, are giving renewed attention to food in international development. The Commission was set up to coordinate their work on food studies, world hunger, and malnutrition.

Biological and social anthropologists are interested in the way food supplies may be affected by changes in energy systems, market structure, public policies, family composition, and women's roles, as well as by technological change.

The mandate of the commission calls for basic and applied research on food production, storage, exchange, feeding, and food symbolism in the light of major structural changes. This includes nutritional studies of vulnerable segments of the population : mothers and young children, the industrial poor, and the rural poor.

One special focus is the changing ethic regarding food in international development. Consequently, it involves experts, and development specialists. Above all, it is a central concern of ICAF to make anthropologists' work on food available to policy and planning agencies, both governmental and international, and to exchange information with them on a continuing basis.

Organisation

The Commission is international. The President is Helen Macbeth and the General Secretary is Frederic Duhart . The international Treasurer is Paul Collinson The organisational structure is developing. The general plan is one of regional sections, within which there are national committees or representatives.

Some national committees or representatives do not find themselves logically within one of the existing regional sections. In such cases the national committee is described as “in contact with”, rather than “within”, a regional section of its choice. The situation with regard to national committees and regional sections is always developing. The current position can be checked within this WebSite and we welcome updated information.

An annual report is written by the Commissioner to the Secretary-General of IUAES. For this report each national committee or representative should provide annual information to the Chair of its regional section. The Chair of that regional section, on request from the Commissioner, then gives a regional report to the Commissioner.

ICAF(Europe) has worked with this system longest and its structure of national committees is most advanced and still developing. This has meant a productive series of conferences each organised by a different national committee or representative. From these conferences several books (see ICAF Publications) have been published, and the series is continuing.

ICAF Europe organisational structure:

• Chair:
  • Xavier Medina
• Deputy Chairs:
  • Wulf Schiefenhövel
• Secretary:
  • Ruth Kutalek
• Treasurer:
  • Marion Demossier

ICAF for Australasia and the Pacific was convened in May 1980 at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS). Some Links have been maintained in regard to the anthropology of food, but a structure like that of ICAF(Europe) is now envisaged.

ICAF (Latin America) has some very active members among whom a more formal structure will now be considered. We await further information.

The situation in North America needs to be clarified as there exist other very active associations with whom individuals have useful contact.

Some other larger or smaller regional sections have been discussed and further groupings are encouraged and anticipated. To discuss such possibilities or initiate a new grouping contact should be made to the General Secretary, Annie Hubert. To initiate a new national committee send an email either to the appropriate regional Chair or to the General Secretary.

However, all these structures are structures that must be based on paid-up membership. National committees are responsible for collecting membership fees. To become a member of ICAF, please contact your national committee or representative or the Chair of the regional section or the General Secretary, Frederic Duhart. Membership years shall begin on lst July. ICAF will pay for group membership of IUAES.