Advice about what to eat for health and well being is pervasive in the modern world, and such advice is delivered as if it were uncontroversial, universally applicable, welcome, and effective. When it appears not to work, rather than reflection on the scientific, cultural, and sociological underpinnings of the endeavor, the response has been for […]

The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium presents: Nathaniel Deutsch Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, UCSC "The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement" On the eve of World War I, the Russian Jewish writer, socialist revolutionary, and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky set out on an ethnographic expedition into the Pale of Settlement, […]