Jon Holtzman

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Advisor
Ph.D. 1996 University of Michigan

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Moore 1002
(269) 387-3967
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Research interests: Food, commodities and consumption, history and memory, globalization and transnational migration

Regional focus: East Africa, US

Selected publications: Holtzman, J (2006) Food and memory. Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 361-378.

Holtzman, J (2006) The world is dead and cooking's killed it: Food and the gender of memory in Samburu, northern Kenya. Food and Foodways 14: 175-200.

Holtzman, J (2005) The drunken chief: Alcohol, power and the birth of the State in Samburu District, northern Kenya. Postcolonial Studies 8: 83-96.

Holtzman, J (2003) In a cup of tea: Commodities and history among Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. American Ethnologist 30:136-155.

A closer look: Jon Holtzman is a cultural anthropologist whose work centers on Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya and Nuer (Sudanese) refugees in Minnesota. His publications include articles in such journals as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and center principally on issues of food, gender and history. He is also the author of Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (Allyn and Bacon, 2000).