History, futures and challenges in the context of food culture

Abstract

ICAF promotes the edition of the journal Archives on Food, Culture and Nutrition (AFOCUN), which aligns the aims and history of the discipline, and which aims to be a meeting point to focus the contemporary debate around the food-culture relationship. The analysis of food and food processes is nowadays a fertile field for the analysis of culture. The journal thus aspires to situate the field of food as an epistemological metropolis in anthropology. Analysing these food processes in contemporary debates on the global or the local, the flows of people, migrations, tourism or other displacements, the relations between food and climate change, the processes of patrimonialisation, the tensions between identity and modernisation, virtual ethnographies on food, its presence in social situations of vulnerability such as the processes of health and illness or loneliness are combined in classical approaches of a symbolic or applied nature to delimit an enormous scenario of objects of interest for the journal. The relations between food and religious practices, the space of ritual or economic practices in the context of globalisation or work linked to development, to cite a small sample of contemporary reflection whose theoretical and epistemological debates may be developed in the following issues. In addition to a marked interest in the development of theory, the journal was born out of an interest in offering a space for the publication of texts of a markedly ethnographic nature. Among its sections, the journal will offer a space for reviews of works of interest for the Anthropology of Food.