Eating Culture

On the significance of food in human existence by means of its genealogy, mode of preparation, consumption and aesthetics. The visual anthropology of food in this folder wants to take food out of context by reflecting on the esthetics, both of the object itself as the picture of it as an artwork, investigating its social history and documenting its cultural meaning through its ritual and symbolic meaning. Food is inevitably produced using certain resources and therefore this folder adresses also the production of the ingredients of food: agriculture. This is also an anthropology of agriculture in its broadest sense, including gardening. The investigative angle however is …

Friends sharing food on holiday
(Porto, Portugal, 2013/ Nikon V1).

Birthday meal at home during the 2020 corona lockdown
(Niel-bij-St-Truiden, Belgium, 2020/ iPhone SE).
Cheap basic meal of onion soup and a sandwich with butter and cheese in a folksy bistro
(Brussels Flea Market, Les Marolles, Belgium, 2020/ iPhone SE).

Small bottle of the only Japan produced drinking yoghurt (on Hokkaido) as sold on the Shinkansen train
(Somewhere between Hakodate and Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 2018, Nikon V1).

Pumpkin pie (family recipe) offered as a leaving gift by an employee to his colleagues
(Brussels, Belgium, 2020/ iPhone SE).

Tray with raw marinated chicken and Wagyu-beaf, minutes before getting baked at a village feast
(Nibutani, Hokkaido, Japan, 2018/ Nikon V1).
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Gepubliceerd door Jo Massin

As an experimental anthropologist with a particular love for the audio-visual arts, such as photography, cinematography, painting and calligraphy but also soundrecording, I am passionate about human existence in all its cultural diversity and richeness. The bond of men with 'nature' in general and the current relationship between humans an their environment through the landscape is of particular interest to me. Reflecting about alternative lifeways in this regard is a lifelong mission. The ways in which people interact on a spiritual and material level with their natural surroundings is of passionate intellectual interest to me. My main interest goes towards animistic and shamanistic belief systems throughout (mainly) indigenous societies and first nations of the world. In this respect there is a very special place reserved in my heart for the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido (Japan). But the broader - and universal human - relations of humans in general with the natural surroundings is of interest to me (e.g. the landscape of my own native village (Niel-bij-Sint-Truiden, Belgium), the marshlands arround Saint-Omer (France), the urban landscape of Brussels, my hometown, ...)This website and blog is an investigation and documentation of these lifeworlds through the interrelationship of people with their (natural) living space .

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