Jon D Holtzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 648787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon D Holtzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon D |
| FAMILY NAME | Holtzman |
| SIGNATURE | HOLTZMAN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Japanese Paradox
Using an anthropological approach that emphasizes understanding the total social and political context of eating behavior, I draw on ethnographic research in Japan in order to understand factors that enable or mitigate obesity. Japan is an important comparative example in obesity research because of its low obesity rates despite being a wealthy nation with affordable access to high-caloric foods. This is found to be an outcome of social and insti…
Rice, beer, and salad
Portion size influences intake in Samburu Kenyan people not exposed to the Western obesogenic environment
The weakness of sweetness
This paper explores the complex relationship of sweets to changing gender identities in Japan. Drawing on ethnography and popular culture sources, it examines ways men negotiate their beliefs and activities concerning sweets within a context where being a sweet lover problematizes masculine identities. Sweets in Japan were traditionally regarded as the domain of women and children, while men were expected to prefer spicy foods/alcohol. Changes in…
On Whale
Likely the world's most controversial meat, debates concerning whale consumption frequently revolve around discourses regarding the 'localness' of food, invoking long-standing anthropological constructs concerning the meaning and significance of 'culture'. Constituencies at the forefront of opposition to whale consumption are elsewhere among the strongest defenders of diverse food traditions, framing 'Endangered foods' as the culinary equivalent …
Killing Your Neighbors
One of the most disturbing spectacles of recent decades has been brutal acts of violence—indeed genocide—between groups who had long lived together in relative peace. In such cases lethal violence is the product not of some far away and unseen hand but rather the hand of your neighbor, someone who before some unforeseen event was perhaps even your friend. Employing multi-sited and multi-vocal ethnography, the book examines how peaceful neighbors …
Cooking Cultures
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner. In understanding the expe…
In search of flavour-nutrient learning. A study of the Samburu pastoralists of North-Central Kenya
Dulzor, género e identidad en el arte culinario de Japón
Este trabajo examina los productos de la confitería como un aspecto extendido, aunque relativamente poco discutido, de la cultura culinaria japonesa contemporánea e histórica. Los dulces en su forma contemporánea tienen sus orígenes en la cocina cortesana que penetró en la cultura de la comida japonesa a través del contacto con los comerciantes portugueses en el siglo XVI. Ciertos tipos de dulces estaban presentes antes de este periodo, los cuale…
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked
Review of The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South. James R. Veteto and Edward M. Maclin, eds. 2011 Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. Pp. 216 $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0826518019
Remembering Bad Cooks
To the extent the food studies literature concerns itself with cooking, the focus is exclusively on good cooking, and that which tastes good. This article focuses on the neglected area of bad cooking, and what sorts of messages a putatively bad-tasting dish is supposed, again putatively, to convey about the person who cooked it. In opening up the disgusting meal for anthropological investigation, this article also exposes an underworld of social …
Uncertain Tastes
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative—th…
The World is Dead and Cooking's Killed It
What is frequently construed as women's special relationship to food has provided an important entry point for gender into studies of social memory. Although such studies offer important insights into the relationship of food, femininity, and memory in the Euro-American contexts upon which they often focus, masculine aspects of food-centered memory have received far less attention, despite their importance in many non-Western settings. Focusing h…
Food and Memory
Much of the burgeoning literature on food in anthropology and related fields implicitly engages with issues of memory. Although only a relatively small but growing number of food-centered studies frame themselves as directly concerned with memory-for instance, in regard to embodied forms of memory-many more engage with its varying forms and manifestations, such as in a diverse range of studies in which food becomes a significant site implicated i…
The Iraqw of Tanzania
Reviewed by: The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development Jon Holtzman Snyder, Katherine A. 2005. The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development. Cambridge: Westview Press. 196 pp. $ 20.00 (paper). Schoolteachers and government officials eat meat and drink bottled beer inside, while other wedding guests sit outside eating maize and beans and drinking home-brewed beer. Old women sing songs of blessing in the Iraqw [End Page 95] langu…
The drunken chief
In a cup of tea
In this article, I explore the 20th-century history of Samburu pastoralists through the lens of a particular beverage, tea. In classic anthropological analyses, "drug foods" such as tea have been taken as emblematic of the spread of global capitalism. Tea, however, is a rare example of a commodity that Samburu have adopted as a central component of a self-defined "traditional" culture specifically counterposed to change. Tracing historical transf…
Speaking With Vampires
Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 352 pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index
States of Grace
States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration. Donald Martin Carter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ix. 274 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Food and Memory
Much of the burgeoning literature on food in anthropology and related fields implicitly engages with issues of memory. Although only a relatively small but growing number of food-centered studies frame themselves as directly concerned with memory-for instance, in regard to embodied forms of memory-many more engage with its varying forms and manifestations, such as in a diverse range of studies in which food becomes a significant site implicated i…
Uncertain Tastes
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative—th…
In a cup of tea
In this article, I explore the 20th-century history of Samburu pastoralists through the lens of a particular beverage, tea. In classic anthropological analyses, "drug foods" such as tea have been taken as emblematic of the spread of global capitalism. Tea, however, is a rare example of a commodity that Samburu have adopted as a central component of a self-defined "traditional" culture specifically counterposed to change. Tracing historical transf…
Speaking With Vampires
Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 352 pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index
In search of flavour-nutrient learning. A study of the Samburu pastoralists of North-Central Kenya
Remembering Bad Cooks
To the extent the food studies literature concerns itself with cooking, the focus is exclusively on good cooking, and that which tastes good. This article focuses on the neglected area of bad cooking, and what sorts of messages a putatively bad-tasting dish is supposed, again putatively, to convey about the person who cooked it. In opening up the disgusting meal for anthropological investigation, this article also exposes an underworld of social …
On Whale
Likely the world's most controversial meat, debates concerning whale consumption frequently revolve around discourses regarding the 'localness' of food, invoking long-standing anthropological constructs concerning the meaning and significance of 'culture'. Constituencies at the forefront of opposition to whale consumption are elsewhere among the strongest defenders of diverse food traditions, framing 'Endangered foods' as the culinary equivalent …
The World is Dead and Cooking's Killed It
What is frequently construed as women's special relationship to food has provided an important entry point for gender into studies of social memory. Although such studies offer important insights into the relationship of food, femininity, and memory in the Euro-American contexts upon which they often focus, masculine aspects of food-centered memory have received far less attention, despite their importance in many non-Western settings. Focusing h…
Portion size influences intake in Samburu Kenyan people not exposed to the Western obesogenic environment
The drunken chief
Rice, beer, and salad
The weakness of sweetness
This paper explores the complex relationship of sweets to changing gender identities in Japan. Drawing on ethnography and popular culture sources, it examines ways men negotiate their beliefs and activities concerning sweets within a context where being a sweet lover problematizes masculine identities. Sweets in Japan were traditionally regarded as the domain of women and children, while men were expected to prefer spicy foods/alcohol. Changes in…
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner. In understanding the expe…
States of Grace
States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration. Donald Martin Carter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ix. 274 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Speaking With Vampires
Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 352 pp., maps, notes, bibliography, index
In a cup of tea
In this article, I explore the 20th-century history of Samburu pastoralists through the lens of a particular beverage, tea. In classic anthropological analyses, "drug foods" such as tea have been taken as emblematic of the spread of global capitalism. Tea, however, is a rare example of a commodity that Samburu have adopted as a central component of a self-defined "traditional" culture specifically counterposed to change. Tracing historical transf…
The Iraqw of Tanzania
Reviewed by: The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development Jon Holtzman Snyder, Katherine A. 2005. The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development. Cambridge: Westview Press. 196 pp. $ 20.00 (paper). Schoolteachers and government officials eat meat and drink bottled beer inside, while other wedding guests sit outside eating maize and beans and drinking home-brewed beer. Old women sing songs of blessing in the Iraqw [End Page 95] langu…
The drunken chief
The World is Dead and Cooking's Killed It
What is frequently construed as women's special relationship to food has provided an important entry point for gender into studies of social memory. Although such studies offer important insights into the relationship of food, femininity, and memory in the Euro-American contexts upon which they often focus, masculine aspects of food-centered memory have received far less attention, despite their importance in many non-Western settings. Focusing h…
Food and Memory
Much of the burgeoning literature on food in anthropology and related fields implicitly engages with issues of memory. Although only a relatively small but growing number of food-centered studies frame themselves as directly concerned with memory-for instance, in regard to embodied forms of memory-many more engage with its varying forms and manifestations, such as in a diverse range of studies in which food becomes a significant site implicated i…
Uncertain Tastes
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative—th…
Remembering Bad Cooks
To the extent the food studies literature concerns itself with cooking, the focus is exclusively on good cooking, and that which tastes good. This article focuses on the neglected area of bad cooking, and what sorts of messages a putatively bad-tasting dish is supposed, again putatively, to convey about the person who cooked it. In opening up the disgusting meal for anthropological investigation, this article also exposes an underworld of social …
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked
Review of The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South. James R. Veteto and Edward M. Maclin, eds. 2011 Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. Pp. 216 $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0826518019
Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives
This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner. In understanding the expe…
In search of flavour-nutrient learning. A study of the Samburu pastoralists of North-Central Kenya
Dulzor, género e identidad en el arte culinario de Japón
Este trabajo examina los productos de la confitería como un aspecto extendido, aunque relativamente poco discutido, de la cultura culinaria japonesa contemporánea e histórica. Los dulces en su forma contemporánea tienen sus orígenes en la cocina cortesana que penetró en la cultura de la comida japonesa a través del contacto con los comerciantes portugueses en el siglo XVI. Ciertos tipos de dulces estaban presentes antes de este periodo, los cuale…
Killing Your Neighbors
One of the most disturbing spectacles of recent decades has been brutal acts of violence—indeed genocide—between groups who had long lived together in relative peace. In such cases lethal violence is the product not of some far away and unseen hand but rather the hand of your neighbor, someone who before some unforeseen event was perhaps even your friend. Employing multi-sited and multi-vocal ethnography, the book examines how peaceful neighbors …
Cooking Cultures
On Whale
Likely the world's most controversial meat, debates concerning whale consumption frequently revolve around discourses regarding the 'localness' of food, invoking long-standing anthropological constructs concerning the meaning and significance of 'culture'. Constituencies at the forefront of opposition to whale consumption are elsewhere among the strongest defenders of diverse food traditions, framing 'Endangered foods' as the culinary equivalent …
The weakness of sweetness
This paper explores the complex relationship of sweets to changing gender identities in Japan. Drawing on ethnography and popular culture sources, it examines ways men negotiate their beliefs and activities concerning sweets within a context where being a sweet lover problematizes masculine identities. Sweets in Japan were traditionally regarded as the domain of women and children, while men were expected to prefer spicy foods/alcohol. Changes in…
Rice, beer, and salad
Portion size influences intake in Samburu Kenyan people not exposed to the Western obesogenic environment
The Japanese Paradox
Using an anthropological approach that emphasizes understanding the total social and political context of eating behavior, I draw on ethnographic research in Japan in order to understand factors that enable or mitigate obesity. Japan is an important comparative example in obesity research because of its low obesity rates despite being a wealthy nation with affordable access to high-caloric foods. This is found to be an outcome of social and insti…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works)