Scoot on over to Anthropology News to check out my newest photo essay, featuring Polaroid photographs I took at Christmas markets in Germany in December, 2023. Each photo features a food from the market, but some of the photos are of vegan foods, and some of foods made with meat and other animal products. Can…
Category: The Senses
Food Anthropology for Middle Schoolers: A Workshop
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…
Potato Chips + Class
You many not think about it as you crunch your way to the bottom of the bag, but potato chip packaging says a lot about social class. In this post, I’ll tell you about how the Boston University Gastronomy Program got community members thinking about chips + class, and then share a how-to guide for…
Reminiscents: Greek Mountain Tea, Scent, and Memory
I hold the tea like a bouquet of flowers, thumbing the soft fuzz of leaves and buds clinging to brittle, woody stalks.[1] I breathe in and smell incense: the inside of a small church on Monastiraki square where I stop to light a candle; a censor waved by the German teens who dress up as…
Ariana Gunderson 