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"What you eat, and why you eat it . . ."

"This course dared me to find out where our food comes from, and has changed the way I think about the world. The 'textbooks' . . . were a joy to read. In short, this is the one course everyone who eats needs to take." — Andy Kadlec, UMD Labovitz School of Business

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First-Day Handout

Meet the Professor

Why food ?

“Food is required by every human on earth, yet the types of food we eat and how we produce and consume it vary tremendously. It is therefore a nearly perfect subject for anthropology, since it can be examined in terms of human biology, culture, and social status across time from our evolutionary ancestors to the present day. . . .” -- Ryan Adams, IUPUI Anthropology

E-mail Tim Roufs for more information

Top people in the world are into Food . . .

Will Allen
Growing Power

one of
The 2010 TIME 100, Heroes
"The World's Most Influential People"
-- Van Jones, Time 29 April 2010

Michael Pollan
Food Rules
The Omnivore's Dilemma

one of
The 2010 TIME 100, Thinkers
"The World's Most Influential People"
-- Alice Waters, Time 29 April 2010

Fall Semester 2011

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

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TEXTBOOKS

textbooks for the course
general textbook information

Carol A. Bryant, Kathleen M. DeWalt, Anita Courtney and Jeffrey Schwartz.

Patricia Harris, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin.

Michael Pollan.

The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society, 2nd Edition.

The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Television Series Hosted by Marcus Samuelsson.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.

Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2003.
432 pages
ISBN-10: 0534525822
ISBN-13: 978-0534525828

Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2005.
176 pages
ISBN-10: 1615609210
ISBN-13: 978-1615609215

NY: Penguin, 2007.
464 pages
ISBN-10: 0143038583
ISBN-13: 978-0143038580

The Cultural Feast, 2^ndh Ed. is currently available online from about $105.26 new / $28.90 used, with a "Buyback Price" of $22.32. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Book Trade-In Program will buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $22.32. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $6.58--a real bargain, even with p/h added). Amazon.com also currently is has another special offer available for MP3 credit.
(25 August 2011)

Other on-line and brick and mortar stores should have comparable offers.

The Meaning of Food is currently available online from about $9.18 new / $2.70 used. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25).
(25 August 2011)

This text is not available at the UMD Bookstore

Other on-line and brick and mortar stores should have comparable offers.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is currently available online from about $9.11 new / $5.50 used. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25).
Also available in Audiobook and Large Print and Kindle editions.
(25 August 2011)
Amazon.com also currently is has another special offer available for MP3 credit.

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Recommended (Not Required)
Sophie D. Coe America's First Cuisines Austin: University of Texax Press, 1994. 288 pages ISBN-10: 029271159X ISBN-13: 978-0292711594		Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. NY: Penguine Books, 1986. 274 pages ISBN-10: 0140092331 ISBN-13: 978-0140092332		Lappé, Frances Moore, and Anna Lappé. Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Tarcher, 2003. 464 pages ISBN-10: 1585422371 ISBN-13: 978-1585422371		Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 510 pages ISBN-10: 0520254031 ISBN-13: 978-0520254039 Blog and Website book information from the University of California Press

Optional On-line Materials

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Welcome to Anthropology of Food

textbooks for the course

September 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Martha, the last passenger pigeon in the world, d. 1914, "alone in captivity in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo"

Week 01

U.S.A Labor Day
Holiday

Buddy Holly's
Birthday

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Week 1—Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course

Week 1 Memo
Week 1 Midweek Memo: Robert Kenner

A note on the slide formats: Since at this point we do not know what software you are using on your computer, we offer the slides in two formats. We recommend you first try "(.pdf)" , the “Portable Document Format” that is the open standard for document exchange. If you have problems with that format, please try "(.pptx)" , Office PowerPoint 2007. It is unlikely that you will have problems with both of them, but if you do, please let us know: troufs@d.umn.edu. When the materials are on your screen they should be running as a slide show. If you want or need to upgrade your software, you can download the latest PowerPoint viewer free, as well as download the latest Adobe .pdf Reader free.

Thanks—Tim Roufs

First-Day Handout
(syllabus)

Meet Your Professor
(WebPage)
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

Introduction
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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[see note on slide formats]

handout: Anthropology and Its Parts

Orientation
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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[see note on slide formats]

Main Characteristics of Anthropology
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

(NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")
- the four fields of general anthropology
- culture as a primary concept
- comparative method as major approach
- holism as a primary theoretical goal
- fieldwork as a primary research technique

WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

"Other Important Terms"
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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[see note on slide formats]
Units of Analysis
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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[see note on slide formats]
Three Major Perennial Debates
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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[see note on slide formats] (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

Finding Information on Food of Different Countries and Cultures
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

For Week 1 Activities see

Week 1 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 1, "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast"

(The materials from Ch. 1 will be reviewed next week in the Week 2 slide presentations)
- Figure 1.1 Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition
- Nutrition Labels

For Fun

Food Trivia

What is longest word ever to appear in all of literature?

For Week 1 Activities see

September 2011

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Week 2—"Setting the Table for a Cultural Feast"
"Biocultural and Nutritional Needs"

Week 2 Memo

Ch. 1, "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast"

Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition

Introduction (.pdf) (.pptx)
Nutritional Status (.pdf) (.pptx)
Biological Makeup (.pdf) (.pptx)
Human Nutrient Needs (.pdf) (.pptx)
Diet (.pdf) (.pptx)
Cuisine (.pdf) (.pptx)
The Environment: Physical / Sociocultural / Economic and Political (.pdf) (.pptx)

Figure 1.1 Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition

Nutrition Labels

Food Systems
(.pdf) (.pptx)

Next Steps
(.pdf) (.pptx)

For Week 2 Activities see

Students in the past have commented that there is TOO MUCH INFORMATION available on the class Moodle and supporting WebSites. Yes, there is a lot of information, no doubt about it, and it can be confusing at first. It’s helpful when starting out to remember that the required information for the course is contained in the middle panel of your HomePage. The information in the sidebars and many of the links are just there should you find those interesting and/or helpful.

Screenshot of Moodle Main and Side Panels

The Cultural Feast

Week 2 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 2, "Diet and Human Evolution"

(The materials from Ch. 2 will be reviewed next week in the Week 3 slide presentations)

Neolithic grinding stone
Prehistoric Iberia
Spain | Portugal

Prehistoric Maize
Tehuacán, Mexico

MyPlate (as of 02 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

Have a look at the information on your class project, which you can find at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afproject.html#title>.

Your class project is your term paper, plus a short presentation on your term paper research.

su2013 on-line Live Chats (2) for Picking a Project Topic
Week 2, Tuesday, 28 May 2013, and
Week 3, Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 7:00-8:00 CDT. Sign in on

These are optional. If you can not make them live, transcripts of the discussions will be available in your Moodle folder.
su2013 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

The informal statement can be very straightforward. It's a simple statement of, "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . . Here's why I'm interested in that. . . . Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . . What do you think?"

Or, it can be something like "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind. Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . . Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . . What do you think?"

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)

For Fun

Food Trivia

The human brain encodes what three factors in processing nouns?

For Week 2 Activities see

September 2011

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Week 3—"Diet and Human Evolution":
Archeology / Prehistory of Food and Subsistence

// Week 3 Memo

Ch. 2, "Diet and Human Evolution"

Diet and Human Evolution: Introduction

Diets of Extinct Humans / Paleontology (.pdf) (.pptx)

Optional, if you want to have a closer look at the primate chart in the slides:
"Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates "

Adaptation (.pdf) (.pptx)
Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominins (.pdf) (.pptx)
Our Place in Nature (.pdf) (.pptx)
A Brief Who's Who of the Early Hominines (.pdf) (.pptx)
What Did Early Hominines Eat? (.pdf) (.pptx)
What Can We Say About the Diets of Fossil Homo (.pdf) (.pptx)
Highlight: Lactose Intolerance (.pdf) (.pptx)
- Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pdf) (.pptx)
- USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pdf) (.pptx)

News Item: Cows Are Key to 2,500 Years of Human Progress
-- Guardian (04 April 2010)

video:
in-class Wednesday 02 February 2011
Holy Cow
(60 min., 2004, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF195 .H65 2004 DVD)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video
(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

or view on-line at Nature WebSite
Nature

Holy Cow.

For Week 3 Activities see

Week 3 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 3, "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"

Archeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico

MyPlate (as of 02 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

(The materials from Ch. 3 will be reviewed next week in the Week 4 slide presentations)

su2013 on-line Live Chats (2) for Picking a Project Topic
Week 2, Tuesday, 28 May 2013, and
Week 3, Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 7:00-8:00 CDT. Sign in on

The informal statement can be very straightforward. It's a simple statement of, "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . . Here's why I'm interested in that. . . . Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . . What do you think?"

Or, it can be something like "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind. Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . . Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . . What do you think?"

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)

Have a look at the information on your class project, which you can find at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afproject.html#title>.

Your class project is your term paper, plus a short presentation on your term paper research.

For Week 3 Activities see

September 2011

Rosh Hashana begins at sundown

Michaelmas
Eat no blackberries after this day. . .--The Writer's Almanac

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Week 4—"Food in Historical Perspectives: Dietary Revolutions"

Week 4 Memo

handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico"

Prehistoric Maize
Tehuacán, Mexico

Ch. 3, "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"

The Neolithic "Agricultural" Revolution (.pdf) (.pptx)
- Domestication (.pdf) (.pptx)
  - Tehuacán Valley, Mexico (.pdf) (.pptx)
- A Protein Primer (.pdf) (.pptx)
- Nutritional Consequences: Foragers and Agriculturalists (.pdf) (.pptx)
- Social and Political Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution (.pdf) (.pptx)
The Search for Spices (.pdf) (.pptx)
The Industrial Revolution (.pdf) (.pptx)
Early Technology: Transportation, Refrigeration, Canning (.pdf) (.pptx)
The Scientific Revolution (.pdf) (.pptx)
Modern-Day Adaptations (.pdf) (.pptx)
Highlight: Vegetarian Diets: Then and Now
(we'll do this "Now"—but not now)

Archeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico

MyPlate (as of 02 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

For Week 4 Activities see

Week 4 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 4, "Eating Is a Cultural Affair"

The Meaning of Food, pp. 60-82

(The materials from The Meaning of Food pp. 60-105 will be reviewed next week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Culture")

Marcus Samuelsson

For Week 4 Activities see

October 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 04

for detailed information on Week 04 see above

Week 05

Yom Kippur begins at sundown

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su2013 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

The informal statement can be very straightforward. It's a simple statement of, "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . . Here's why I'm interested in that. . . . Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . . What do you think?"

Or, it can be something like "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind. Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . . Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . . What do you think?"

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)

su2013 Midterm Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due to the wiki by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

You can review the questions and my notations there, and use them as study questions

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Week 5—"Eating Is a Cultural Affair"

Week 5 Memo
Week 5B Memo--Still Looking for a Project?

Ch. 4, Eating is a Cultural Affair

This week . . .

read the Week 5 Memo

have a look at the video and video clips

read the assigned readings

peruse the two WebPages (below)

catch up on your assignments

start thinking about reviewing for the Midterm Exam, and

work on your project

There are no new slide sets this week

catch up / review / preview

video:
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Culture"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700)
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

view video clip::
"Eating Insects"
(U.S.A, California)

	video clip
	-- National Geographic News (3:34, 2008, on-line)
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view video clip:
"Eating Rat at the New Year"
video clip
-- National Geographic News
(2:51, 2008, on-line)

"Eating Rat at the New Year"
Vietnam

other video clips are available from National Geographic:
National Geographic Film Clips and related dishes
(optional resource)

peruse:
"Extreme Cuisine"

Entomophagy WebPage
(optional resource)

Durian
video: Durian

peruse:
Anthropophagy
See this week's Forums

Notes:
Review for the Midterm Exam Week 06

For Week 5 Activities see

Week 5 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 5, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"

(The materials from Ch. 5 will be supplemented in Week 6 with the video Desert People. a classic film on one of the last gathering / foraging peoples discovered.)

Omnivore's Dilemma
- Ch. 15 "The forager"
- Ch. 16 "The omnivore's dilemma"
- Ch. 17 "The ethics of eating animals"
(We're starting this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of "The forager" and "The ethics of eating animals" as next week we begin having a closer look at hunting / gathering / foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies)

The Meaning of Food, pp. 83-105

(The materials from The Meaning of Food pp. 60-105 will be reviewed this week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Culture")

For Fun

Food Trivia

How do you say "blueberry pie" in Ojibwa / Chippewa?

Woman and Blueberries.
Creator: Patrick DesJarlait (1912-1972)
Art Collection, Watercolor, 1971
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. AV1979.211 Negative No. 30610

su2013 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

The informal statement can be very straightforward. It's a simple statement of, "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . . Here's why I'm interested in that. . . . Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . . What do you think?"

Or, it can be something like "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind. Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . . Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . . What do you think?"

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)

For Week 5 Activities see

October 2011

Thanksgiving (Canada)

Charles Darwin, 1881, published "what he considered to be his most important book": The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. . . .

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Week 6—"Food Technologies:
How People get their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"

Week 6 Memo
Week 6 Memo: Live Chat / Midterm Exam

Ch. 5, Food Technologies:
How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrial Societies — Introduction

Neolithic grinding stone Prehistoric Iberia Spain \| Portugal	Prehistoric Maize Tehuacán, Mexico	Maize God Temple 22 A.D. 680-750 Copán, Honduras
Hunting seal on the Spring Ice [Research does not support the folk etymology of "Eskimo" as "eaters of raw meat"]		Neandertal Hunter
Girl with baby yak Nepal		Yak milking Tibet
Aztec Cacao Sculpture		Aztec Feast

Indians harvesting wild rice near Brainerd, 1905

Indians harvesting wild rice near Brainerd, MN.
Photograph Collection, Postcard, 1905
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.32W r9 Negative No. 38616

"Foraging"

Hunting / Gathering / Foraging WebPage (optional resources)

video:
The Desert People
(51 min., 1965, VC 1094)

course viewing guide

view online


Eating a "grub worm" video: Desert People Australia		Eating a lizard Australia

see related slides:
Nutritional Consequences: Foragers and Agriculturalists
(.pdf) (.pptx)
based on The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society, Second Edition.
Bryant, Carol A., Kathleen M. DeWalt, Anita Courtney, and Jeffery Schwartz.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2003).

"Horticulture"

Horticulture WebPage (optional resources)

"Pastoralism"

Pastoralism WebPage (optional resources)

"Diet and Human Evolution"
(review)

Diet and Human Evolution: Introduction
Diets of Extinct Humans / Paleontology (.pdf) (.pptx)
Adaptation (.pdf) (.pptx)
Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominins (.pdf) (.pptx)
Our Place in Nature (.pdf) (.pptx)
A Brief Who's Who of the Early Hominines (.pdf) (.pptx)
What Did Early Hominines Eat? (.pdf) (.pptx)
What Can We Say About the Diets of Fossil Homo (.pdf) (.pptx)
Highlight: Lactose Intolerance (.pdf) (.pptx)
- Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pdf) (.pptx)
- USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pdf) (.pptx)

MyPlate (as of 02 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

News Item: Cows Are Key to 2,500 Years of Human Progress
-- Guardian (04 April 2010)

"Intensive Agriculture"

Early Agriculture WebPage (Optional Resource)
Factory Farms (Optional Resource)
Animal Rights (Optional Resource)
Food Ethics (Optional Resource)

Contemporary Peasant Societies

Where Do Cuisines Come From?

Food WebPage (Optional Resource)

Cuisines of Individual Countries and Cultures WebPage (Optional Resource)

Review "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"

Dietary Revolutions: Neolithic (.pdf) (.pptx)

Neolithic WebPage (optional resources)

Midterm Exam

The Live Chat for the on-line Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Sign in on in the Week 6 Panel.

Week 6: The Anthropology of Food on-line Midterm Exam will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 26-27 June 2013

Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).

What will be covered?

Other Q & A

More information on the Midterm exam is available at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_midterm.html#title>

For Week 6 Activities see

Week 6 Reading Assignment for discussion Weeks 7 ff.

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 6, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 157-169

Features of Industrialized Agriculture

Industrial / Factory Farms WebPage

Farm Size
Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
Energy Used in Food Production
Soil Erosion
Water Pollution and Shortages
- Water Resources WebPage
Social Costs
Alternative Strategies
- Sustainable Agriculture WebPage

Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
Genetically Modified Foods (GM Foods)
- GM Food WebPage

Omnivore's Dilemma

Ch. 18 "Hunting: the meat"
Ch. 19 "Gathering: the fungi"
Ch. 20 "The perfect meal"

We're continue this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of Hunting and Gathering, and in Ch. 5 of The Cultural Feast we have a closer look at hunting / gathering /foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies.

Chapter 5 of The Cultural Feast, focuses on "Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrial Societies."

For Week 6 Activities see

October 2011

World Food Day
is 16 October

Food Day Canada
is in August on the Saturday of Civic Holiday Weekend (the first Monday of August)

Food Day U.S.A
is 24 October

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su2013 Project formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 7, Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:55 p.m. (submit them together)

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 7—"Food Technologies:
How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies" I
International Focus

International Focus
Europe . . . and the World
(Two Austrian films)

Week 7 Memo

Week 7

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 6, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 157-172

Features of Industrialized Agriculture

Industrial / Factory Farms WebPage

Farm Size
Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
Energy Used in Food Production
Soil Erosion
Water Pollution and Shortages
- Water Resources WebPage
Social Costs
Alternative Strategies
- Sustainable Agriculture WebPage

Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
Genetically Modified Foods (GM Foods)
- GM Food WebPage

Notes:
Be sure to watch award-winning Our Daily Bread before you watch We Feed the World.
And for its real impact, watch it on a large screen.

Our Daily Bread has almost no dialogue.

From one reviewer: It's "The 2001: A Space Odyssey of modern food production." -- The Nation

video--International Focus:

Our Daily Bread
(92 min., CC, but almost without dialogue, 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF140.L58 O97 2006 DVD)

film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video
(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

Our Daily Bread -- Wikipedia

also available from Goodle Videos

video--International Focus:

We Feed the World
(96 min., CC, 2007, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9000.5 .W4 2007 DVD)

film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

We feed the world -- Google Videos

For Week 7 Activities see

Week 7 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 6, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 170-189

Features of Industrialized Agriculture

Industrial / Factory Farms WebPage

Farm Size
Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
Energy Used in Food Production
Soil Erosion
Water Pollution and Shortages
- Water Resources WebPage
Social Costs
Alternative Strategies
- Sustainable Agriculture WebPage

Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
Genetically Modified Foods (GM Foods)
- GM Food WebPage

Omnivore's Dilemma

"Introduction: our national eating disorder"
Ch. 1 "The plant: corn's conquest"
Ch. 2 "The farm"
Ch. 3 "The elevator"
Ch. 4 "The feedlot: making meat"

For Fun

Food Trivia

How many pounds of anchovies does it take to produce one pound of fish-farmed salmon?

For Fun

Food Trivia

What was the average consumption of potatoes per person in Ireland before the great potato famine of 1845?

su2013 Project formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 7, Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:55 p.m. (submit them together)

For Week 7 Activities see

October 2011

4004 B.C., 9:00 a.m.,
World Created

Happy Birthday World!

Food Day U.S.A.

World Food Day
is 16 October

Food Day Canada
is in August on the Saturday of Civic Holiday Weekend (the first Monday of August)

Diwali, a religious holiday in India

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Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 8—"Food Technologies:
How People Get their Food in Industrialized Countries" II
United Stated Focus

Week 8 Memo

Monday, 24 October 2011
is
Food Day U.S.A.

Food Day Canada
is in August on the Saturday of Civic Holiday Weekend (the first Monday of August)

World Food Day
is 16 October

on-line assignment
or f2f for extra credit--film review

videos--United States Focus:

King Corn: You are What You Eat
(approx. 90 min., 1970, SB191.M2 K56 2010 DVD [DVD 1641], 2008)

film homepage

Independent lens King Corn page

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

"Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America’s modern food system."

Big River: A King Corn Companion
(27 min., SB191.M2 K56 2010 DVD, 2010)

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

"Following up on their Peabody winning documentary, the King Corn boys are back. For Big River, best friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis have returned to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has sent to the people and places downstream. In a journey that spans from the heartland to the Gulf of Mexico, Ian and Curt trade their combine for a canoe––and set out to see the big world their little acre of corn has touched. On their trip, flashbacks to the pesticides they sprayed, the fertilizers they injected, and the soil they plowed now lead to new questions, explored by new experts in new places. Half of Iowa’s topsoil, they learn, has been washed out to sea. Fertilizer runoff has spawned a hypoxic “dead zone” in the Gulf. And back at their acre, the herbicides they used are blamed for a cancer cluster that reaches all too close to home."

video--United States Focus:

Food Fight
(73:13 min., 2009, DVD 1961)
(Educational Edition is 48 min.)
film homepage

Course Viewing Guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

Food Flight -- SnagFilms

For Week 8 Activities see

Week 8 Review Assignment

Review the readings assigned for the last two week . . .

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 6, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 157-189

Features of Industrialized Agriculture

Industrial / Factory Farms WebPage

Farm Size
Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
Energy Used in Food Production
Soil Erosion
Water Pollution and Shortages
- Water Resources WebPage
Social Costs
Alternative Strategies
- Sustainable Agriculture WebPage

Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
Genetically Modified Foods (GM Foods)
- GM Food WebPage

Week 8 Reading Assignment for review during Weeks 9 ff.

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220
- Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
- Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
- Food and Social Status
- Food and the Life Cycle

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-122

The materials from The Meaning of Food pp. 106-157 will be reviewed next week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Family."

For Fun

Food Trivia

How big is a modern industrial fish trawler net compared to buildings on the UMD campus?

Modern Trawler, Skagen, Denmark
Wikimedia

For Week 8 Activities see

October 2011

set clock
back 1 hour E.U.

Haloween

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Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 9—"Food and Social Organization"
Food & Family

Week 9 Memo

Week 8 Reading Assignment for review Weeks 9 ff.

Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220
- Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
- Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
- Food and Social Status
- Food and the Life Cycle

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-157

video:
finish reading The Meaning of Food pp. 106-157 before you watch the video

The Meaning of Food: "Food & Family"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD)

film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video
(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

Chicago, U.S.A.

Episode 3: "Food & Family"
looks at the complex way food defines families

Review of the materials from Part 3 of the text,
The Meaning of Food, "Food & Family"
from the Reading Assignments of last week and this week

Also have a look at . . .

"Take it Slow"
from Marcus Samuelsson's
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life"

and


Slow Food National Geographic Videos (3:25 min)

Slow Food Lake Superior

Week 8 Reading Assignment for review Weeks 9 ff.

Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220
- Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
- Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
- Food and Social Status
- Food and the Life Cycle

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-157

View slides . . .

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
and friends

Chs. 1-7
(Note: You do not have to read the book, just view the slides.)

Secret Ingredients
slides: (.pdf)(.pptx)

Sherri Inness, Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

For Week 9 Activities see

Week 9 Reading Assignment

The Meaning of Food, pp. 123-157
- The materials from The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-157, will be reviewed this week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Family."

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 8, "World View, Religion, and Health Beliefs: Ideological Basis of Food Practices"

For review starting Week 11
Food Guide Pyramid -- Wikipedia
- MyPlate (as of 02 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

For Fun

Food Trivia

How many gallons of sap does it take to make one gallon of maple syrup?

Mrs. John Mink collecting maple sap, Mille Lacs, 1925

Mrs. John Mink collecting maple sap, Mille Lacs.
Creator: Kenneth M. Wright Studios
Photograph Collection, 1925
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.32M p12 Negative No. 5000-A

For Week 9 Activities see

November 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Day of the Dead,
Día de los Muertos
-- Mexico

Samhain,
and Neopagan new year.

for details on Week 09 see above

November 2011

set clock
back 1 hour U.S.A.

Eid al-Adha.

Veterans Day

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Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 10—Physical Anthropology and Food
Obesity, Anorexia and Related Problems: An Introduction . . .

Week 10 Memo

Obesity, Anorexia and Related Problems: An Introduction

"Starvation_2008 . . ."

"Dying to be thin"

26 February - 3 March 2012

"After a short stay in America, Michelangelo's David
has been returned to Europe"

The first thing to do this week is watch the video . . .

Two Fat Ladies
"Timber!"
video:
Series 4 Episode 23
(30 min., 2008, UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX717 .T86 2008 DVD )

film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

While you are watching The Two Fat Ladies do a “freelisting” of the things that The Two Fat Ladies talk about or mention that are not specifically related to the actual cooking of the meal in the kitchen. Freelisting is a technique commonly used by anthropologists when doing fieldwork, and it’s basically just making a list of the things you’re focusing on—but a complete list.
(Don’t miss the gorilla. . . .)

Selective Attention Test
It's short (less than a minute and a half)
The Monkey Business Illusion
by Daniel Simons
(It too is short: 1:42)

Two Fat Ladies.
Two Fat Ladies --
Clarissa Dickson Wright
and
Jennifer Paterson

Video Assignment:

Freelist the things that The Two Fat Ladies talk about or mention that are not specifically related to the actual cooking of the meal in the kitchen.

You do not have to turn this list in, but keep it handy.

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti

When you’re finished with “Timber!” have a look at the slides from the last chapter of Sherri A. Inness’ book Secret Ingredients . . .

Two Fat Ladies slides (.pdf) (.pptx)

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

Ch. 8 “Thin Is Not In: Two Fat Ladies and Gender Stereotypes on the Food Network”

Sherri Inness, Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

(Note: You do not have to read the book, just view the slides—but watch the video first, and freelist as directed)

When you’re finished with When you’re finished with the Two Fat Ladies slides based on Secret Ingredients, Ch. 8, have a look at the slides on Obesity and on Eating Disorders . . .

The "Obesity Epidemic" (.pdf) (.pptx)
Body Image and Eating Behaviors (.pdf) (.pptx)
Eating Disorders (.pdf) (.pptx)
Causes of Eating Disorders (.pdf) (.pptx)
Obesity, Eating Disorders: Applications (.pdf) (.pptx)

For Week 10 Activities see

Video Assignment:

Freelist the things that The Two Fat Ladies talk about or mention that are not specifically related to the actual cooking of the meal in the kitchen.

You do not have to turn this list in, but keep it handy.

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti

Week 10 Reading Assignment

The Meaning of Food, pp. 1-33
The materials from The Meaning of Food, pp. 1-33 will be reviewed next week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life."

Omnivore's Dilemma
- Introduction: our national eating disorder
- Ch. 5 "The processing plant : making complex foods"
- Ch. 6 "The consumer: a republic of fat"
- Ch. 7 "The meal: fast food"

Optional Activity
(these films qualify for Extra Credit Film Review)

film: Super Size Me (103 min., 2004)
(on-line at snagfilms.com)
- Super Size Me -- Wikipedia

Supersize Me

film: Fast Food Nation (116 min., 2006)

Fast Food Nation -- Wikipedia

Fast Food Nation

film: Killer At Large (182 min., 2007)
(on-line at snagfilms.com)

Killer at Large

For Fun

Food Trivia

What does "Häagen-Dazs" mean?

"Happy Days"

"High Life"

"Danish Delight"

It's a Family Name

Absolutely Nothing

For Week 10 Activities see

November 2011

International Education Week -- 14-18 November 2011
join IEWNet -- IEW Quiz

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Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices:
Religion

Week 11 Memo

NOTE: There are three videos this week:

Food for Body and Spirit
(29 min., 1984, VC 714)
The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD)
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD)

The third is at the very bottom of this week's listings.

review

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 8, "Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices"

A comparative look . . .

controlled comparison—
Chinese : Buddhism : Food
in China and Malaysia

This week we'll first have a look at
a Taoist temple
and Buddhist Slow Food
and Locavorism
which has a thousand year history . . .

In Food for Body and Spirit we'll see how food
holds a part of Chinese culture together . . .

And following, we'll see how food
tears apart a major segment of Chinese culture in Malaysia . . .

controlled comparison—
Chinese : Buddhism : Food
in China and Malaysia

video:
Food for Body and Spirit
(29 min., 1984, VC 714)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

(China) (Online Optional Resource)
Food of China (Online Optional Resource)

[food is central to Chinese life and philosophy]
[food holds Chinese culture together]

controlled comparison—
Chinese : Buddhism : Food
in China and Malaysia

video:
The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD)
(70 min?)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video
(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

The Pig Commandments

Shaikh Hussain Ye
Malaysia

(China) (Online Optional Resource)
(Malaysia) (Online Optional Resource)
[food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia

肉

"It was hardly surprising that, for the Chinese, the words 'meat' and 'pork' became, and remain, synonymous."

-- concluding sentence to Chapter 2 "Changing the Face of the Earth," Reay Tannahill, Food in History (NY: Three Rivers Press, 1988)

Book image.

Food Revolution #2: The Meaning of Eating
-- the discovery that food is more than sustenance

Book image.

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see
Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2^nd Ed.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994)

video:
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

Marcus Samuelsson

For Week 11 Activities see

Week 11 Reading Assignment

The Meaning of Food, pp. 33-59

The materials from The Meaning of Food, pp. 33-59 will be reviewed this week in the the video The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life."

The Cultural Feast
- Ch. 9 "Hunger in Global Perspective"

For Week 11 Activities see

November 2011

U.S.A. Holiday
Thanksgiving

Floating Holiday
1922
Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun

Holiday

World Buy* Nothing Day
[postcards]

*Female/male shopping patterns may have prehistoric roots

Islamic New Year

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on-line section: Presentation (up to 100 points)
due on-line in by the end of Week 12

f2f: Your Presentation is due on-line in by the day you give your presentation in class

Upload your project and have a look at the other class projects.

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 12—Global Food Issues . . .
World Hunger and Other International Food Issues
"Hunger in Global Perspective"
"Addressing Global Food Issues"

Week 12 Memo

Turkey
Turkey WebSite

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 9, "Hunger in Global Perspective"

Food Sufficiency

Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution

Food Aid and Trade

Hunger and Malnutrition

Obesity Revisited

Projections for the Future

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"

Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited

Adequate Nutrition

Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers

Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security

Entitlements

Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household

Distribution

Health and Sanitation

Highlight: Women: A Pivotal Link in the Food Chain
[NOTE: If you are interested in this topic, or the economics of Third World countries in general, be sure to have a look/listen to Bina Agarwal's Nobel Food conference talk below.]

video:
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat
(85 min., 2010, DVD 2028)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

The End of the Line -- Wikipedia

Optional Activity
(this film qualifies for Extra Credit Film Review)

film: Darwin's Nightmare
(105 min., 2004, DVD 1755)
- homepage

Optional Activity
(this film qualifies for Extra Credit Film Review) video:

"Can We Make Food Good For All?"
Bina Agarwal
Nobel Conference 46 "Making Food Good"
(128 min., 6 October 2010)
Bina Agarwal Nobel Conference Page

view video on-line

For Week 12 Activities see

Week 12 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"

Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited

Adequate Nutrition

Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers

Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security

Entitlements

Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household

Distribution

Health and Sanitation

Highlight: Women: A Pivotal Link in the Food Chain
[NOTE: If you are interested in this topic, or the economics of Third World countries in general, be sure to have a look/listen to Bina Agarwal's Nobel Food conference talk.]

Non-Reading Assignment:

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 11, "Dietary Behavior Change: How People Change Eating Habits"
- Ch. 11 is not assigned reading, but as with Chapter 12, if you expect to go into or be a part of any program or company involved in dietary behavior change (including advertising and marketing), it would be a good idea to read this chapter. Materials from this chapter may also be used as the optional "Take-Home" question that you make up yourself.

Non-Reading Assignment:

The Cultural Feast, Ch. 12, "Designing Large-Scale Programs to Change Dietary Practices"
- Ch. 12 is not assigned reading, but as with Chapter 11, if you expect to go into or be a part of any large-scale program or company involved in dietary behavior change (including advertising and marketing), it would be a good idea to read this chapter. Materials from this chapter may also be used as the optional "Take-Home" question that you make up yourself.

For Fun

Food Trivia

What would Willie Nelson's Last Supper be?
One what?

answer

For Fun

Take the Turkey Trivia Quiz

and remember
You are What you Eat
link

on-line section: Presentation (up to 100 points)
due on-line in by the end of Week 12

f2f: Your Presentation is due on-line in by the day you give your presentation in class

Upload your project and have a look at the other class projects.

For Week 12 Activities see

Anthropology of Food

November-December 2011

Today in History

BBC Food

UMD Calendars

Jonathan Swift
"A Modest Proposal" (1729)
[analysis -- Wikipedia]

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su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

su2013 Extra Credit Paper
due by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 13—Food Politics
Focus: State/Provincial and National
Student Presentations

Week 13 Memo
Week 13B Memo Final Exam Question Wiki

video:
FRESH
(90 min., CC, 2009, UM Duluth Library Media HD9000.5 .F7474 2009 DVD)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video
(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

FRESH poster.

For Week 13 Activities see

video:
Food Inc.
(93 min., 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9005 .F66 2009 DVD
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

For Week 13 Activities see

review:

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"

Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties

Kinship and Family Alliances
Building Relationships with Neighbors and Friends

Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances

Trade
Food as a Gift
Political Alliances

Food and Social Status

Food and Gender
Food and Socioeconomic Position
Food as a Symbol of Prestige

Food and the Life Cycle

Week 13 Assignment

Have a look at the other Students' Presentations, in the Week 12 Activities section . . .

Part 3: Project Presentation [Due Friday, 25 November 2011]. Upload your project, and have a look at the other class projects.

catch up / review / preview

su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

For Week 13 Activities see

December 2011

St. Nicholas Day

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Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 14—Food Politics
Focus: International

Week 14 Memo
Week 14B Memo Final Exam Question Wiki

su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

su2013 Term Paper (up to 400 points)
is due by the end of Week 14, Friday, 23 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

review:

The Cultural Feast

Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"

Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited

Adequate Nutrition

Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers

Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security

Entitlements

Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household

Distribution

Health and Sanitation

Highlight: Women: A Pivotal Link in the Food Chain

NOTE:
The materials are shorter this week, but, as you will see, they deal with interlocking and complicated questions.

video:
The Cove
(92 min., CC, 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia QL737.C432 C68 2009 DVD)
film HomePage

view streaming video

(double click on QuickTime^© window)
(pursuant to licensing agreements streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

The Cove -- Wikipedia

The Cove Poster

The EU Chocolate Wars: A Run-up to Scaling
(.pdf) (.pptx)

chocolate

Optional Activity
(this film qualifies for Extra Credit Film Review)


The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food (50 min., 2001, VC 4770) (56 min.?)

For Week 14 Activities see

Week 14 Reading Assignment

Omnivore's Dilemma
- Ch. 12, "Slaughter: in a glass abattoir"
- Ch. 13, "The market: 'greetings from non-barcode people'"
- Ch. 14, "The meal: grass-fed"

su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

For Week 14 Activities see

December 2011

St. Lucia's Day

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s2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 16, Friday, 17 May 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.

su2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 15, Friday, 30 August 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 15 — Wrapping it UP

Summary / Review
Course Evaluation
The Future of Food

Week 15 Memo
End of Term Memo

Lady Justice (Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice.

Course Evaluation Anth 3888 - 350
Course Call #	=	31852
Quarter	=	3 Fall
Year	=	11

The evaluation form for your online class (ANTH 3888-350) will be made available by our IT staff.

Your answers will remain confidential and only aggregate information from the entire class will be passed onto the faculty member.

The evaluation form is available until tba at midnight. If you encounter any problems accessing the evaluation, please contact Julie Viken, the system admin for the application, at jviken@d.umn.edu.

"UMD Student Online Evaluation - ANTH 3888-350 (Professor Roufs) Anthropology of Food"

Please click on the link which will be provided

Thanks,

Tim Roufs

video:
From Deborah Koons Garcia . . .
The Future of Food
(88 min., 2007, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia TP248.65.F66 F88 2004 DVD, DVD 959)

film HomePage

view on-line

The Future of Food -- Wikipedia

The Future of Food

On-Line Final Exam

su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

The Live Chat for on-line Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Sign in on in the Week 15 Panel.

Week 15 (Last Week of Class): The on-line Anthropology of Food Final Exam for su2013 will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 28-29 August 2013

Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).

For Week 15 Activities see

Week 15 Reading Assignment

Review for Final Exam

For Week 15 Activities see

December 2011

Chanukah

Winter Solstice , also known as Yule

Floating Holiday

Getting your other grades

Western Christmas

Holiday
Boxing Day

Floating Holiday

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January 2012

A.D. 2012 Information

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

New Year's Day

Holiday

Floating Holiday

Christmas Day by Julian Calendar (Celebrated by Eastern Orthodox Christians)

Martin Luther
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What can I do with a degree in Anthropology?

Credit Options at UMD

This course is governed by the . . .

University of Minnesota Duluth Student Academic Integrity Policy
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/integrity/Academic_Integrity_Policy.htm>

UMD Office of Student and Community Standards
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/>

"Academic dishonesty tarnishes UMD's reputation and discredits the accomplishments of students. UMD is committed to providing students every possible opportunity to grow in mind and spirit. This pledge can only be redeemed in an environment of trust, honesty, and fairness. As a result, academic dishonesty is regarded as a serious offense by all members of the academic community. In keeping with this ideal, this course will adhere to UMD's Student Academic Integrity Policy, which can be found at [http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/integrity/Academic_Integrity_Policy.htm]. This policy sanctions students engaging in academic dishonesty with penalties up to and including expulsion from the university for repeat offenders." – UMD Educational Policy Committee, Jill Jensen, Chair (08/16/2007)

and the UMD Student Conduct Code
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/code/>

and the

Student Conduct Code Statement (students' rights)
<http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/conduct/conduct-statement.html>

The instructor will enforce and students are expected to follow the University's Student Conduct Code [http://www1.umn.edu/regents/policies/academic/Student_Conduct_Code.html]. Appropriate classroom conduct promotes an environment of academic achievement and integrity. Disruptive classroom behavior that substantially or repeatedly interrupts either the instructor's ability to teach, or student learning, is prohibited. Disruptive behavior includes inappropriate use of technology in the classroom. Examples include ringing cell phones, text-messaging, watching videos, playing computer games, doing email, or surfing the Internet on your computer instead of note-taking or other instructor-sanctioned activities." – UMD Educational Policy Committee, Jill Jensen, Chair (08/16/2007)

A Note on Extra Credit Papers

Failure to comply with the above codes and standards when submitting an Extra Credit paper will result in a penalty commensurate with the lapse, up to and including an F final grade for the course, and, at a minimum, a reduction in total points no fewer than the points available for the Extra Credit project. The penalty will not simply be a zero for the project, and the incident will be reported to the UMD Academic Integrity Officer in the Office of Student and Community Standards.

Students with disabilities:

It is the policy and practice of the University of Minnesota Duluth to create inclusive learning environments for all students, including students with disabilities. If there are aspects of this course that result in barriers to your inclusion or your ability to meet course requirements – such as time limited exams, inaccessible web content, or the use of non-captioned videos – please notify the instructor as soon as possible. You are also encouraged to contact the Office of Disability Resources to discuss and arrange reasonable accommodations. Please call 218-726-6130 or visit the DR website at www.d.umn.edu/access for more information.

for your research papers try the
UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources >
Assignment Calculator
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/>

Paper is due to assigment area

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