Professor Jeremy MacClancy

Jeremy MacClancy

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Professor of Anthropology

Department of Social Sciences - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research activities

My Research groups

Functional Food Centre

Details of my research

Academic background: Although my initial training was in pre-clinical medicine, I work as a social anthropologist and I have carried out major fieldwork in both Vanuatu, for which I received a DPhil (Oxon), and Basque Spain. I am Director of ACCEND (the Anthropological Centre for Conservation, Environment and Development). I am also a member of the Scientific Panel for the e-journal ‘ICAFood’.

Areas of expertise: As a social anthropologist, I investigate the social and cultural dimensions of people’s practice. In Vanuatu, I looked at the role of food and food-sharing as cultural symbols within local nationalism, while part of my work in Spain focused on the politicized development of a notion of ‘Basque cuisine’ over the last hundred years (the resulting work was made ‘First Award’ of the Sophie Coe Prize for Food Studies). I am equally concerned with dissemination of academic work of food, e.g. my book ‘Consuming culture’, and am producing a reader in the anthropology of food with Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

Key publications:

  • MacClancy J, Henry CJ, Macbeth H [editors]. Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice. Berghahn Books, 2007.
  • Macbeth HM, MacClancy J. Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems. Berghahn Books, 2004.

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