Anthropology of food: an essay on food transition and. transformations in Brazil. Journal of Food, Nutrition and P opulation Health, 2 1. Stajcic, N. 2013. Understanding culture: food as a. The study of food anthropology integrates historical and anthropological perspectives with current social challenges in food production and consumption systems. The anthropological study of nutrition is unique from other disciplines in that it emphasizes food in a cultural and often cross-cultural context. Because food is absolutely essential to human existence, food anthropology is about the analysis and exploration of food and culture. Furthermore, this is a connection between eating habits and the. In the anthropological field, work on food has flourished and diversified, with growing attention to the nexus between food security, sovereignty and politics. The articles collected here originated as papers in a panel on food sovereignty organized by Thomas Reuter at the annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, held at the Australian,