From the periphery

Publish Anthropology of food without perishing

Abstract

Archives on Food, Culture and Nutrition (AFOCUN) was sponsored by the International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF) with the firm commitment of a small Spanish university – the University of Extremadura – to what can be seen as an affirmation of its counter-current spirit. It is born in some way in the subalternity, located on the periphery of the great centers of knowledge dissemination, alien to the flows of exchange of broad academic capital. And it also did so with the aim of clarifying the category of Open Access (OA), offering researchers a space to disseminate their findings free of charge and without restriction of any kind. This assumption of subalternity as  a political ethos also refers to the delimitation of the objects of study that can be addressed in this publication. In the first place, because of a firm commitment to interdisciplinarity, given that the journal is open to publications that address the food issue from different perspectives. But also, because of the firm commitment to offer a space for contexts of subalternity that have not been addressed with due attention.

This issue largely addresses all these  foundational ethos of the publication with which it intends to carve out a path. It combines research by authors of recognized prestige in the academic and cultural fields with incipient authors; It caters to different languages, such as English and Spanish, while opening its doors to European, but also Asian and American researchers.  But, above all, this second issue of AFOCUN provides a space for multidisciplinary expression and reflection on food and nutrition, addressing classic topics such as indigenous ways of eating with other more innovative ones such as reflection on the "cultural sustainability" of food systems.