1,616 search results for “anthropology of food” in the Public website
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Teeth Tell Tales
A multi-disciplinary approach to past lifestyles and cultural practices
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Planet formation: food for thought
Planet formation is a surprisingly homogeneous process that does not take place gradually from inside out, but that occurs everywhere at the same time in a proto-planetary disc, as Dave Lommen has discovered. He will obtain his doctorate this week based on his research into the dust around young stars…
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Asia Research Cluster
The CADS Asia Research Cluster extends the legacy of the Institute’s Asia focus into the future, as an important hub in international networks on the study of Asia and through active engagement with colleagues in Asia. Within the Institute the Asia Research Cluster offers a platform for anthropologists…
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Lions in the queue for food
The number of lions in Kenya is decreasing alarmingly, due partly to the encroaching cities and the development of the countryside. Together with local scientists and inhabitants, Leiden biologists are studying how this decline can be halted. ‘Lions are cleverer than we thought.’
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
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Documentation and analysis of !Ora and !Ui languages
This project aims at describing the Khoisan languages !Ora (Korana/Griqua) and !Ui of South Africa.
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Sustaining Ethical Aquatic Trade (SEAT)
Creating a framework to assess the sustainability of fish farms which will set sustainability standards and give consumers information about the the sustainability and safety of their seafood.
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Sponsors
Sip2021 is sponsored by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS).
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Paolo Graziano on the research potential about ‘food citizens’.
A political science perspective on our project’s comparative ethnography. I truly enjoyed the one-day conference on February 4th where the research results have been shared with the members of the Advisory Board. The work conducted so far is impressive, and the case studies are very useful in understanding…
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Gerard Persoon
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Annemarie Samuels
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ethnographies of Insurance
How do insurance products transform intimate and personal relations? What are the consequences of the classifications that insurance companies use and how do these affect solidarity, morality and inequality?
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Contact
To get in touch with the 'Food citizens?' project, you can write us an email.
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Contact
To get in touch with the 'Food citizens?' project, you can write us an email.
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Fate, accumulation and impact of metallic nanomaterials in the terrestrial environment
The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.
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Linking the past with the present through pickling, fermenting, and food preservation in Gdańsk, Poland.
PhD candidate Ola Gracjasz writes about fermentation practices in Gdańsk, Poland.
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Merenungkan Gema, Pemjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda
Indonesian translation of the book Recollecting Resonances from authors Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts.
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Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela published the article 'Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte' in Cultural Anthropology 37. The article’s three sections focus on three forms of temporal control—busyness, punctuality, and rhythm—and each demonstrates…
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Islam and Society
Knowledge of Muslim societies is essential to function in a globalised world and to fully understand our own Dutch society. Leiden researchers explore the languages, cultures, religions, legal systems and history of Muslim societies and in this way contribute to a centuries-old tradition.
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Jac Aarts
Faculteit Archeologie
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IDREEM - Increasing industrial resource efficiency in European mariculture
What are the environmental trade-offs for SMEs considering moving from monoculture aquaculture practice towards IMTA? What are the environmental trade-offs comparing IMTA species with their conventional monoculture alternatives?
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Food Citizens? project presented at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
The Dutch Royal Couple received 70 scientists at the yearly gala for the Diplomatic Corps at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam on 14 June 2023.
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Dance, poetry and food bring together international students
Practically the whole world came together on International Cultural Night on 29 November. International students got together on this night organised by Meeting Point for Refugee Students and showed their culture through dance, poetry, film and of course food. A great source of inspiration for fascinating…
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Of jars and gongs
Of jars and gongs deals with the traditional ritual art of Ot Danum Dayak subsistence farmers from a stretch of tropical rainforest in the heart of Borneo. Together with the Ngaju, their neighbours to the south, they gloried in one of the most elaborate secondary mortuary rites in the world.
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Celebrating the World Anthropology Day 2019 in Milan, Italy
On February 21st, Maria Vasile, one of the PhD students of the project participated to several events organized in Milan by the University of Milano-Bicocca for the celebration of the World Anthropology Day.
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Soils2Guts
Steering soil microbiomes for better crop quality: the holy grail to improve human health?
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Biological, Soft and Complex Systems
We study the physics of a broad range of biological and soft materials
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Learning to see through others’ eyes
How does a farmer decide if his cow is a prize winner? An anthropologist studying these farmers should not only look at the farmers themselves, but should in particular learn how they see the world. This is what Cristina Grasseni, the new Professor of Anthropology contends. Inaugural address on 30 O…
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Interactive platform
Explore an interactive i-doc platform for virtual navigation of ethnographically investigated case studies in Gdańsk, Turin, and Rotterdam.
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Jaap Corthals
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Zamzam Fauzanafi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Irene Moretti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Amadou Adamou
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim van de Meerendonk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bjørn Peare Bartholdy
Faculteit Archeologie
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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The Secret Lives of Art Works
The Secret Life of Art Works. Exploring the Boundaries between Art and Life is the first collection of essays to present case studies from the visual arts, architecture, sculpture and numismatics, and to engage critically with theoretical perspectives from art history, psychology, aesthetics and ant…
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Valuing lives and deaths: an ethnography of life insurance amongst African Americans in New Orleans
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Risky Business: Agricultural Insurance and Morality in Maharashtra
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Crashing, Caring and Cashing in: An Ethnography of Motor Insurance and Road Accidents in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Cotton, control, and continuity in disguise: The political economy of agrarian transformation in lowland Tajikistan
Irna Hofman defended her thesis on 10 January 2019.
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Complaining as a moral narrative: An ethnographic study of complaints, morality and bureaucracy at a Dutch health insurer
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Punching Back is a detailed ethnographic study that demonstrates that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.
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Hunters of the Golden Age
The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000 - 20,000 BP
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Self-Steering Committees
Within Una Europa, academic collaboration takes place in interdisciplinary Self Steering Committees (SSCs)
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“The Waste of Society as Seen through Women’s Eyes”: waste, gender, and national belonging in Japan
Rebecca Tompkins defended her thesis on 21 March 2019
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Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Environmental Impacts of Diet Changes
Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.