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WHO project on cultural contexts of health and well-being adopted in U.S.

03-04-2020 WHO/Europe is pleased to announce that the cultural contexts of health and well-being (CCH) project, which it pioneered and established, will now also be rolled out in the United States of America. Vanderbilt University will lead the United States-based …

Creating Value Worlds with Third Wave Coffee

Interview with Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/uncategorized/quality-and-inequality-creating-value-worlds-with-third-wave-coffee/

Cultures of Health and Sickness in the COVID Era – Le Monde Diplomatique

Cultures of health and sickness A. David Napier and Edward F Fischer July 7, 2020 – Le Monde diplomatique   https://mondediplo.com/2020/07/04uganda A group of researchers, led by David Mafigiri at Makerere University in Uganda, began collecting data this January for a …

“Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee”

  External Link to original article Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee

Beyond Nutrition: Eating, Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility

Beyond Nutrition: Eating Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility from Sight and Life (2017)

Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life: An Interview with Edward F. Fischer

GB. England. New Brighton.  From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr.   In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologist and social entrepreneur Edward F. Fischer to reflect on his book The …

Third wave coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers

Third wave coffee How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers,  PopAnth | 20 January 2015

The Good Life: What Really Matters | Health and Wellness | Vanderbilt University

Ted Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the “Good Life,” and why it is important to focus on what matters most. Janet McCutchen:    Welcome to this edition of the Vanderbilt University …

Still thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? This year, try focusing on the good life

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the year is always a time of reflection of what we have done and what we have left undone. And, of course, it’s time to …

The Good Life: Page 99 Test

The Page 99 Test blog takes its cue from Ford Madox Ford, who remarked “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” I was asked to apply the Page …