Over spring break, I was honored to introduce 16 middle schoolers from Indianapolis to food anthropology through the lens of bread. They were completing a two-week intensive course on bread, when for two weeks all their other classes were put on hold and they learned about bread through every school subject. While in Bloomington to…
How to Prevent Recipe Theft: A Conference Zine
I have just returned from AAA in Toronto, the annual and massive anthropology conference, and I am feeling very happy to be an anthropologist. I met up with old friends, made new ones, ate well with all the food scholars, and presented a paper to six very brave and not-even-too-bleary-eyed attendees at an 8am Saturday…
A Template for a Conference Abstract
Let’s say you want to apply to present at a conference. Amazing! Step One: Submit an Abstract. How on earth do you do that? Here is one way to go about it. (not the only way! not even the best way! but a way). I developed this template for a collaborative project with a research…
Artist as Author: Reflections on Jeff Koons’ Talk at IU
In my research on recipes, I’m often engaged in discussions of authorship and ownership. Who can be called an ‘author’ of a recipe? What does authorship of a text entail (in terms of copyright law or social norms) and who gets to be an author when freshly published recipes are based on older recipes or…
AAA Annual Meeting: Tips for a huge anthropological gathering
By Ariana Gunderson and Gaya Morris We returned from the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle with our notebooks full of reflections and ideas for next time. Here are our notes to self for this year’s annual meeting, which might be of interest to you for your first AAA! Gaya’s sketched…
Ariana Gunderson 