Arianna Huhn, Anthropologist
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Publications

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"Recasting Colonial-Era Anthropometry in South Africa." In Putting Theory and Things Together: Worthing with Museum Collections, edited by J. Bell and J. Shannon. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. Forthcoming.
"Promoting Social Justice through Storytelling in Museums." Co-authored with Annika Anderson. In Museum and Society 19 (3), 351-368.2021.
Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town. Berghahn Books. 2020. Preview
"Biographical Objects, Affective Kin Ties, and Memories of Childhood" in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 11(3): 403-420. 2018. 
"Enacting Compassion: Hot/Cold, Illness and Taboos in Northern Mozambique" in Journal of Southern African Studies 43(2): 299-314. 2017
​* Awarded the Terence Ranger Prize for 2017. 
"Information Curation Among Vaccine Cautious Parents: Web 2.0, Pinterest Thinking, and Pediatric Vaccination Choice." EJ Sobo, Arianna Huhn, Lori Thurman, and Autumn Sannwald. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 35(6): 529-546. 2016. 
“Body, Sex, and Diet in Mozambique” in The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. Lenore Manderson, Anita Hardon, and Elizabeth Cartwright, eds. Routledge. Pages 54-58. 2016.
“What is Human?: Anthropomorphic Anthropophagy in Northwest Mozambique” in Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling. Ishita Banerjee, ed. Cambridge University Press. Pages 177-198. 2016.
"¿Qué es Humano? Tabús Alimentarios y Antropofagia en el Noroeste de Mozambique" in Estudios de Asia y África 50(3), Number 158. 2015.
"Anthropophagy" and "Breastfeeding" entries in the Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues. Ken Albala, ed. Sage. 2015. 
"The Tongue Only Works Without Worries: Sentiment and Sustenance in a Mozambican Town" in Food and Foodways 21(3): 186-210. 2013. 
"The Changing Shape of Malnutrition: Obesity in sub-Saharan Africa" in Issues in Brief 11. 2009. 
Para a versão em português, "A Mudança de Forma da Malnutrição: Obesidade na África Subsariana" clique aqui.
​"Colonial Legacy in African Museology: The Case of the Ghana National Museum" in Museum Anthropology 31(1): 19-27. 2008.

Presentations

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"The Umthakathi and his Sangoma: The Making of a Smithsonian Collection”
​Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Boston, MA. 2019
"Recasting the Past: “My Boy, Jack” and Others’ Experiences of Colonial-Era Anthropometry in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa"
New England Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA). Burlington, Vermont. 2019
"Creating opportunities for equity and inclusion with immersive technologies"
Annual CSU Teaching Symposium. Fresno, CA. 2019
Co-presented with Ginger Hartman, James Trotter, & Mihaela Popescu
"Storytelling to Promote Empathy and Acceptance: The In|Dignity Project"
Regional Conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education. San Diego, CA. 2019
"Finding and Using Primary Source Material for Teaching Anthropology"
Regional Meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges. San Diego, CA . 2018
"Meaning in Monotonous Meals: A Case Study from Mozambique"
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. 2017
"River Reeds, Bot Flies, and Wild Greens: Landscape, Diet & Composite Persons in Northern Mozambique" [originally titled "A Recipe for Morality: Sentiment & Mozambican Cuisine"]
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Washington, DC. 2016
"Imposing Culture in Post-Liberation Mozambique"
African Socialism / Socialism in Africa Conference. Paris, France. 2016
“Balancing Between Worlds: Spirits, Self, and Family in Dosunmu’s Mother of George”
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. San Diego, CA. 2015
Double Session Organizer and Chair
“Privileged Vaccine Non-conforming Parents are Not All Alike: Sub-cultural Differences and their Implications for Intervention” A Sannwald (presenter), L Thurman, A Huhn, EJ Sobo
Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropologists. Pittsburgh, PA. 2015
“Vaccine Decision Making in a Hashtagged World” A Huhn (presenter), A Sannwald, L Thurman, EJ Sobo
Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. San Diego, CA. 2015.
“Negotiating Sin and Spirituality Through Southern African Cooking”
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. 2014
Panel invited by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR)
“Sex, Salt, and Sin: Maravi Culture-Bound Illness and Compassionate Morality”
New England Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA). Burlington, Vermont. 2013 
“Authenticity and Modernization in Rustic Cuisine” J McCann (presenter), A Huhn
Annual International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Diredawa, Ethiopia. 2012
“Why They Eat (What They Eat) in Northern Mozambique”
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Washington, DC. 2011
“Weapons of Revolution: Culture and Marxism in the Frelimo Political Agenda”
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. 2008
“Childhood Acquisition of Food Preferences – Toward an Africanist Approach”
Boston University Graduate Student Research Conference. Boston, MA. 2008
“Rooted in History: The Story of Cassava in Northwestern Mozambique”
Boston University Graduate Student Research Conference. Boston, MA. 2007
“(Stone) Tools for Development: Making Stone Age Archaeology Matter” A Huhn, J Mercader
Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference. Calgary, AB. 2006
“Museums and Community: Perspectives from Africa”
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums. Boston, MA. 2006
Session Organizer and Chair
“Metangula Museum Project: Culture and Development in Niassa, Mozambique”
Cotlow Student Research Conference. Washington, DC. 2006
“Tradition, Urbanity, and ‘Colonial Legacy’ at the Ghana National Museum” 
Cotlow Student Research Conference. Washington, DC. 2005
“The State of Diversity in America’s Museums”
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums. New Orleans, LA. 2004

Other Contributions

Public scholarship without peer review
In|Dignity Exhibition Catalog. 42 autobiographical, first-person accounts from residents of the Inland Empire provide an intimate look into daily experiences of discrimination, microaggressions, homophobia, cis-genderism, pronatalism, sexual assault, and other forms of exclusion, harassment, and daily affronts to self-worth and community belonging. Based on the museum exhibition (CSUSB Anthropology Museum, 2018).
"The Anthropology of Trumplandia." A Storify roundup of anthropological perspectives on the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. [update: Storify is no longer active; please access an archived copy of this contribution here]
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