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\"The Anthropology of Stuff\" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each \"Stuff\" title is a short (100 page) \"mini text\" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. And it will generate lively discussion of the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.

Food globalization has been in train for some ten millennia,1 driven by, and driving, war, trade, imperialism, colonialism, and culture. Within economic history, the dominant discipline in the study of globalization, only the first four are dealt with in any depth, invariably focusing on production and the supply side. By contrast, there have been relatively few studies of globalization in terms of culture, consumption, and the demand side, resulting in an incomplete understanding of the ways in which material life, cultural values, and political imperatives interact in a global context. These dynamics are examined in this anthropological account of culture and commerce in Britain and the empire in the interwar years, focusing on a dish that assumed tremendous symbolic and economic importance – the King's Christmas pudding

\"The Anthropology of Stuff\" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each \"Stuff\" title is a short (100 page) \"mini text\" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. And it will generate lively discussion of the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.

In the anthropology of Britain, much has been written about imagined and experienced landscapes, less about seascapes, and very little indeed about the shifting 'scapes' of the coast. The primary fieldwork site is on the South Wales coast, along a stretch that contains two extensive estuarine complexes, an award-winning zone of industrial reclamation and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The coast is becoming ever more vital and visible in anthropology and archaeology generally. Gower Wallicana comprised the easternmost section of the north Gower coast along the Burry Estuary including present-day Penclawdd, and then the upland territory on the mainland extending nearly to Ammanford. Despite the stunning visual beauty of the coast, there is little official promotion or even recognition of Welsh coastal history and culture, no formal representations of the coastal past to enrich the coastal present and safeguard its future, only national museums devoted to agriculture and industry. In the anthropology of Britain, much has been written about imagined and experienced landscapes, less about seascapes, and very little indeed about the shifting 'scapes' of the coast. The primary fieldwork site is on the South Wales coast, along a stretch that contains two extensive estuarine complexes, an award-winning zone of industrial reclamation and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The coast is becoming ever more vital and visible in anthropology and archaeology generally. Gower Wallicana comprised the easternmost section of the north Gower coast along the Burry Estuary including present-day Penclawdd, and then the upland territory on the mainland extending nearly to Ammanford. Despite the stunning visual beauty of the coast, there is little official promotion or even recognition of Welsh coastal history and culture, no formal representations of the coastal past to enrich the coastal present and safeguard its future, only national museums devoted to agriculture and industry.

History and culture have inscribed the Sudanese palate with the foodways of Africa and the Arab world, producing distinctive dishes that reflect the different microclimates and contrasting practices of nomadism, pastoralism and agriculture that are found in this largest of African counties with its diverse population and complex past.

  Arab Sheik.

  Passenger train, Sudan Railways.

Studies of empire food commodities have concentrated on the great export commodities sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate, spices and tobacco —the first ‘exotic groceries’.1 However, there were other ‘hidden’ commodities of empire, staples that were an essential part of imperial trade, and in some cases literally sustained it. This chapter focuses on just such a hidden food commodity, one that moved between Empires over four centuries largely unremarked although it was a part of both transatlantic and transpacific commerce. This food was involved in imperial trade in three ways: as a plant cultivar; as a finished commodity; and as the sustenance that supported the production of Empire goods and was the catalyst for the mass movement of people across continents and oceans. This food is arguably the most important food crop in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, but it has been largely overlooked in Anglo-American food histories and studies of imperial trade for two reasons. First, it is a food that in many places was more important in the internal market than in the export trade to which it was essential, and therefore never appeared in export figures. The second reason is a direct consequence of imperial history, for the food originated in and was most important to the Portuguese Empire, which in Anglophone studies has been eclipsed by the Spanish Empire and its maize-dominated colonial food regime, in the same way that Luso-Brazilian studies have been overwhelmed by Spanish/Latin American studies under the label ‘Hispanic’.2