Please join us Tuesday, November 17, at 3:00 pm, in Kalkin 325, for the lecture, "Dog Meat Politics in a Vietnamese Town", by Nir Avieli.
Nir Avieli is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and interested mainly in food and tourism, Nir has been conducting anthropological research in the central Vietnamese town of Hoi An since 1998. His book: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town (2012, Indiana University Press) is a culinary ethnography of Hoi An. His articles on Vietnam were published in the Journal of Material Culture, Ethnology, Annals of Tourism Research, the Journal of Heritage Tourism and in others journals.
This lecture is sponsored by the Food Systems Graduate Program, the Food Systems Initiative and the Department of Anthropology.