Department and Institution:
Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Bio/CV:
Josh Feng is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the cultivation of “tropicality” and the luxury fruit market in Japan, focusing on the supply chain of the Taiyo no Tamago (“Egg of the Sun”) mango from Miyazaki Prefecture. Through ethnographic fieldwork with farmers, marketers, and consumers, his project explores how technologies of cultivation, infrastructures of distribution, and rhetorics of regional revitalization and locality converge to mediate production and consumption, generate value, and produce place — both within Japan and across East and Southeast Asia.
