Well, I admit it. This is a selfish blog. But I love both anthropology (thanks, Claude Levi-Strauss for today’s blog title!) and the internet for their willingness, as media, to allow for the author’s personal quandaries to appear meaningful or … Continue reading
Carol Adams’ early 1990s work, The Sexual Politics of Meat, addresses the historical relationship between meat-eating and the oppression of women, by locating both within in a patriarchal system in which meaning is divorced from materiality, violence is both accepted … Continue reading
Feegan the Vegan in a recent episode of South Park demonstrating, yet again, the dominant media representation of vegans as effeminate, precious, and twee. Feegan the Vegan
Last week, when writing about extremism and dietary identities, I linked to the popular detox program called “Clean.” I returned to the site for some further research and was suddenly struck by the promotional images. This diet “cleanse” is clearly … Continue reading