Hanna Garth
Biographic Data
| ID | 91775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Garth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Garth |
| SIGNATURE | GARTH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1924-4772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Innovating the Cuban Kitchen: Class and Distinction in Santiago de Cuba
Despite state attempts to eliminate class in socialist Cuba, in practice my interlocutors categorized themselves and others as lower class (gente humilde), middle class (gente normal), and upper class (gente con possibilidades). On the basis of more than 10 years of household-based ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, I draw on photographs and ethnographic data to argue that kitchens are important sites where Cubans locate forms of distinct…
The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system. As concerns over the “obesity epidemic” and the push for “real food” in the 2000s coincided with a surge in GIS data on “food deserts,” a new cadre of activists, often white and middle‐class, began intervenin…
Towards an anthropology of acquisition: How did you get that
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring. Acquisition also calls into question the linearity of the production‐distribution‐consumption chain, as acquisition takes place at different points and to various ends. Drawing on res…
Developing the Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
This article outlines the process of developing a collaborative multi-sited oral history project on the history, traditions, and ongoing resilience of Black and Indigenous farm and garden practices in the Southeastern United States and Appalachia. The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration between the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, the Spelman College Food Studies Program, and the Princeton Food Project. Our model used stu…
Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba
Using a Black feminist embodied approach, this article analyzes the ways in which people in Santiago de Cuba draw on their own embodied practices, sensory experiences, and popular knowledge to determine what forms of ingestion (food, drink, etc.) are good for the body. Influenced by historical ideals of food consumption and colonial entanglements, Cubans use a combination of knowledge gleaned from biomedicine, official nutrition guidelines, and h…
The 2020 Los Angeles uprisings: Fighting for Black lives in the midst of Covid-19
Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and "Nonsovereign" Food Futures
Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often led by multinational organizations and corporations. These programs have been critiqued for causing environmental degradation, undermining local economies and food production systems, and failing to account for historically and culturally relevant local food preferences. Food …
There is No Race in Cuba: Level of Culture and the Logics of Transnational Anti-Blackness
While many Cubans of all racialized identities often insist that there is no race or racism in Cuba, they still experience ongoing forms of prejudice and discrimination. This article analyzes the translocal processes through which the logics of racialization and racism circulate in contemporary Cuba. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, known as Cuba’s Blackest City, I analyze the local construct level of culture as centr…
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, Hanna Garth examines Cuban families' attempts to acquire and assemble "a decent meal," unraveling the layers of household d…
"The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles's Obesity "Epidemic
On the limitations of barriers: Social visibility and weight management in Cuba and Samoa
Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking
A medida que el sistema alimentario cubano contemporáneo cambia, los consumidores domésticos necesitan ajustar sus hábitos diarios de consumo alimentario. En este artículo demuestro las maneras en que los consumidores cubanos usan la categoría de la "comida decente" para mantener los límites de los alimentos "reales". Introduzco la "dignidad alimentaria" como una estructura para entender por qué los cubanos consideran ciertas prácticas de consumo…
Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Contemporary Santiago de Cuba
In this article, I argue that the temporal experience of contemporary Cuba must be understood as co-constituted in both the struggles of daily life and cycles of celebration. As the socialist welfare state has tried to maintain quality of life in post-Soviet Cuba, the daily work of acquiring basic goods and services has increasingly become a struggle (una lucha). Yet, while everyday life is experienced as a struggle, Cubans are often seen revelin…
Fat Consequences
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba, written by Noelle M. Stout
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol's Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking
This article illustrates the ways communities maintain and adjust the boundaries of local cuisine as food systems change. Focusing on contemporary Cuban household cooking practices, I reveal the importance of cookbooks and television in helping household cooks adjust to food system changes. Through her cookbooks and television show, Nitza Villapol, a famous Cuban chef, played a significant role in demonstrating how to cook with a drastically rest…
A Review of “Culinary Art and Anthropology”: By Joy Adapon. Oxford, 2008; 160 pp
Adapon opens Culinary Art and Anthropology with a confession of her skepticism of anthropological studies of food. She refers to the common association of the subfield with historical interests in ...
Coswa in the New Millennium: Expanding Our Goals to Meet Member Needs
Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago De Cuba Then and Now
Cuba has had a nationalized food rationing system since 1962, and has been lauded for exemplary food security innovations in the face of national financial hardship. Decreases in food and agricultural related importations after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 limited the amount of food provided in the monthly rations, forcing individuals to acquire increasing amounts of their food through other means. This article reveals the complexitie…
Commentary an Undergraduate's Call to Action
It was not until my first field experience that I discovered my true passion for anthropology. In my quest to understand anthropology as a discipline, I developed an interest in method and fieldwork. As I dove deeper into my study of how anthropologists do what they do, I found myself asking how anthropologists define their work and how they see the role of anthropological work in society
La política exterior de una revolución
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine the COVID era. As a group of diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior feminist scholars, we developed a methodology to critically reflect on our positions in our institutions and social worlds. As a method, duoethnography emphasizes the dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws on individual daily lives to make sense o…
Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking
A medida que el sistema alimentario cubano contemporáneo cambia, los consumidores domésticos necesitan ajustar sus hábitos diarios de consumo alimentario. En este artículo demuestro las maneras en que los consumidores cubanos usan la categoría de la "comida decente" para mantener los límites de los alimentos "reales". Introduzco la "dignidad alimentaria" como una estructura para entender por qué los cubanos consideran ciertas prácticas de consumo…
Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Contemporary Santiago de Cuba
In this article, I argue that the temporal experience of contemporary Cuba must be understood as co-constituted in both the struggles of daily life and cycles of celebration. As the socialist welfare state has tried to maintain quality of life in post-Soviet Cuba, the daily work of acquiring basic goods and services has increasingly become a struggle (una lucha). Yet, while everyday life is experienced as a struggle, Cubans are often seen revelin…
Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago De Cuba Then and Now
Cuba has had a nationalized food rationing system since 1962, and has been lauded for exemplary food security innovations in the face of national financial hardship. Decreases in food and agricultural related importations after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 limited the amount of food provided in the monthly rations, forcing individuals to acquire increasing amounts of their food through other means. This article reveals the complexitie…
On the limitations of barriers: Social visibility and weight management in Cuba and Samoa
Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba
Using a Black feminist embodied approach, this article analyzes the ways in which people in Santiago de Cuba draw on their own embodied practices, sensory experiences, and popular knowledge to determine what forms of ingestion (food, drink, etc.) are good for the body. Influenced by historical ideals of food consumption and colonial entanglements, Cubans use a combination of knowledge gleaned from biomedicine, official nutrition guidelines, and h…
There is No Race in Cuba: Level of Culture and the Logics of Transnational Anti-Blackness
While many Cubans of all racialized identities often insist that there is no race or racism in Cuba, they still experience ongoing forms of prejudice and discrimination. This article analyzes the translocal processes through which the logics of racialization and racism circulate in contemporary Cuba. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, known as Cuba’s Blackest City, I analyze the local construct level of culture as centr…
"The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles's Obesity "Epidemic
They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol's Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking
This article illustrates the ways communities maintain and adjust the boundaries of local cuisine as food systems change. Focusing on contemporary Cuban household cooking practices, I reveal the importance of cookbooks and television in helping household cooks adjust to food system changes. Through her cookbooks and television show, Nitza Villapol, a famous Cuban chef, played a significant role in demonstrating how to cook with a drastically rest…
Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and "Nonsovereign" Food Futures
Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often led by multinational organizations and corporations. These programs have been critiqued for causing environmental degradation, undermining local economies and food production systems, and failing to account for historically and culturally relevant local food preferences. Food …
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
La política exterior de una revolución
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine the COVID era. As a group of diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior feminist scholars, we developed a methodology to critically reflect on our positions in our institutions and social worlds. As a method, duoethnography emphasizes the dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws on individual daily lives to make sense o…
Commentary an Undergraduate's Call to Action
It was not until my first field experience that I discovered my true passion for anthropology. In my quest to understand anthropology as a discipline, I developed an interest in method and fieldwork. As I dove deeper into my study of how anthropologists do what they do, I found myself asking how anthropologists define their work and how they see the role of anthropological work in society
Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago De Cuba Then and Now
Cuba has had a nationalized food rationing system since 1962, and has been lauded for exemplary food security innovations in the face of national financial hardship. Decreases in food and agricultural related importations after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 limited the amount of food provided in the monthly rations, forcing individuals to acquire increasing amounts of their food through other means. This article reveals the complexitie…
A Review of “Culinary Art and Anthropology”: By Joy Adapon. Oxford, 2008; 160 pp
Adapon opens Culinary Art and Anthropology with a confession of her skepticism of anthropological studies of food. She refers to the common association of the subfield with historical interests in ...
Coswa in the New Millennium: Expanding Our Goals to Meet Member Needs
They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol's Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking
This article illustrates the ways communities maintain and adjust the boundaries of local cuisine as food systems change. Focusing on contemporary Cuban household cooking practices, I reveal the importance of cookbooks and television in helping household cooks adjust to food system changes. Through her cookbooks and television show, Nitza Villapol, a famous Cuban chef, played a significant role in demonstrating how to cook with a drastically rest…
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba, written by Noelle M. Stout
Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands
Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another impor…
Fat Consequences
On the limitations of barriers: Social visibility and weight management in Cuba and Samoa
Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking
A medida que el sistema alimentario cubano contemporáneo cambia, los consumidores domésticos necesitan ajustar sus hábitos diarios de consumo alimentario. En este artículo demuestro las maneras en que los consumidores cubanos usan la categoría de la "comida decente" para mantener los límites de los alimentos "reales". Introduzco la "dignidad alimentaria" como una estructura para entender por qué los cubanos consideran ciertas prácticas de consumo…
Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Contemporary Santiago de Cuba
In this article, I argue that the temporal experience of contemporary Cuba must be understood as co-constituted in both the struggles of daily life and cycles of celebration. As the socialist welfare state has tried to maintain quality of life in post-Soviet Cuba, the daily work of acquiring basic goods and services has increasingly become a struggle (una lucha). Yet, while everyday life is experienced as a struggle, Cubans are often seen revelin…
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, Hanna Garth examines Cuban families' attempts to acquire and assemble "a decent meal," unraveling the layers of household d…
"The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles's Obesity "Epidemic
The 2020 Los Angeles uprisings: Fighting for Black lives in the midst of Covid-19
Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and "Nonsovereign" Food Futures
Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often led by multinational organizations and corporations. These programs have been critiqued for causing environmental degradation, undermining local economies and food production systems, and failing to account for historically and culturally relevant local food preferences. Food …
There is No Race in Cuba: Level of Culture and the Logics of Transnational Anti-Blackness
While many Cubans of all racialized identities often insist that there is no race or racism in Cuba, they still experience ongoing forms of prejudice and discrimination. This article analyzes the translocal processes through which the logics of racialization and racism circulate in contemporary Cuba. Based on long-term ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, known as Cuba’s Blackest City, I analyze the local construct level of culture as centr…
Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba
Using a Black feminist embodied approach, this article analyzes the ways in which people in Santiago de Cuba draw on their own embodied practices, sensory experiences, and popular knowledge to determine what forms of ingestion (food, drink, etc.) are good for the body. Influenced by historical ideals of food consumption and colonial entanglements, Cubans use a combination of knowledge gleaned from biomedicine, official nutrition guidelines, and h…
Towards an anthropology of acquisition: How did you get that
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring. Acquisition also calls into question the linearity of the production‐distribution‐consumption chain, as acquisition takes place at different points and to various ends. Drawing on res…
Developing the Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
This article outlines the process of developing a collaborative multi-sited oral history project on the history, traditions, and ongoing resilience of Black and Indigenous farm and garden practices in the Southeastern United States and Appalachia. The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration between the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, the Spelman College Food Studies Program, and the Princeton Food Project. Our model used stu…
Innovating the Cuban Kitchen: Class and Distinction in Santiago de Cuba
Despite state attempts to eliminate class in socialist Cuba, in practice my interlocutors categorized themselves and others as lower class (gente humilde), middle class (gente normal), and upper class (gente con possibilidades). On the basis of more than 10 years of household-based ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, I draw on photographs and ethnographic data to argue that kitchens are important sites where Cubans locate forms of distinct…
The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system. As concerns over the “obesity epidemic” and the push for “real food” in the 2000s coincided with a surge in GIS data on “food deserts,” a new cadre of activists, often white and middle‐class, began intervenin…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Cuban History and Society (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Geography (4 works)