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ANTH 3888: Calendar Spring 2024

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to Sweet Treats around the World

What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
. Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024 .
 
BBC Food
The Gardian News / The Gardian Animals Farmed /

Wikipedia: Food | Food and drink | Food culture | Food history | Food Portal

Wikipedia Categories: Food and Drink | History of Food and Drink | Historical Foods

World Food and Water Clock

OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.    
 
     
Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
"Palermo, Sicily
Italy
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
U.S.A.

Eating rat.
"Eating Rat At The New Year"
Vietnam
National Geographic
Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Desert People
Australia

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f2f Anth 3888 Fall 2015
Anthropology of Food
 University of Minnesota Duluth
30494 -001 LEC, 2:00 P.M. - 3:15 P.M. , Tu, Th (08/31/2015 - 12/11/2015), MonH  208, instruction mode: Partially Online, Roufs,Tim, 3 credits
Schedule may change as events of the semester require

f2f Calendar

"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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General Course Information:   http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afcourseinfo.html#title
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handout:
 First-Day Handout

Meet Your Professor
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/MeetYourProfessor.html>
Slides: (.pptx)

  General Course Information
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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


Will Allen, Growing Power.


TAPS Magazine, Winter 2012 cover


TAPS Magazine, Karla Dudley, Editor in Chief, Winter 2012 cover

Karla Dudley, Editor in Chief,
TAPS The Beer Magazine
Winter 2012



Top people in the world are into Food . . .

Will Allen, Growing Power.

Will Allen, Growing Power.
On the Future of Fod, HRH The Prince of Wales.
Will Allen

Growing Power

one of
The 2010 TIME 100, Heroes
"The World's Most Influential People"

-- Van Jones, Time 29 April 2010

Time Magazine top 100, 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

Time Magazine top 100, 2010.
And on American Public Media . . .


TEXTBOOKS

  textbooks for the course
 general textbook information


The exams will be open-book essays constructed from a list of study questions that you help create, so it would be a good idea for you to have your own copy of each text you plan to use in the exams.

Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



Omnivore's Dilemma text.



The Language of Food
Gillian Crowther

 author Interview
 Teaching Culture
Michael Pollan
Dan Jurafsky

Meet Daniel Jurafsky
Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads The Menu
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
336 pages
ISBN-10: 1442604654
ISBN-13: 978-1442604650
NY: Penguin, 2007.
464 pages
ISBN-10: 0143038583
ISBN-13: 978-0143038580
NY: W. W. Norton, 2014.
272 pages
ISBN-10: 0393240835
ISBN-13: 978-0393240832
The course anchor text, Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, by Gillian Crowther, is currently available on-line new for $29.91 (paperback) / $25.91 used / $15.37 Kindle.
[It is also being offered on-line for as much as $214.76 (hardbound), or even more, so be careful to check prices.]
(+ p/h, where applicable, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). (24 December 2014)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2007) is currently available online from about about $9.60 new / $1.48 used / $7.99 Kindle. (+ p/h, where applicable, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). (24 December 2014)

Note: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition (2009), also by Michael Pollen, is a different edition of the book.
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads The Menu is currently available on-line for $17.04 new / $16.92 used / Kindle / $12.99. (+ p/h, where applicable, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). (24 December 2014)
Eller, Jack David. 2014 Review of Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food. Anthropology Review Database January 12, 2014. http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=5820, accessed June 17, 2014.

Eating Culture: Sample Student Assignments for the Anthropology of Food -- October 7, 2013. Accssed June 17, 2014.

University of Toronto Press Listing

 

The Language of Food Blog

Stanford course

Textbooks are available from these sources . . .

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Welcome to Anthropology of Food


(textbooks for the course and general textbook information)
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Woman and Blueberries, Parick DesJarlait, 1971

Rice Gatherers 1867
Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
from The Anishinabe of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (1975; 2013),
Timothy G. Roufs, Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series; Reprinted, Cass Lake, MN: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, 2013, p. 27.

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Holidays Fall 2020
Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
Allhallowtide:

   31 October 2020
    1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
    2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
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Week 1

Getting Started

Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course:
"Setting the Anthropological Table"

envelope
   Welcome Memo

Week 1 Memo

Week 1 Day 1, Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Week 1 Day 2, Thursday, 3 September 2015

Are you watching Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE?  
Check out the Week 7 Reading Assignment section.

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Have a look at the linked materials in the various units as you go along (such as the "First-Day .f2f Handout" in the next section), and look at the slide materials*
.(indicated by .pptx)

There will be more slides towards the beginning of the term, and more videos towards the middle and at the end, and we will finish off the semester with presentations of your Term Project.

It is generally best to watch the videos after you have looked at the slides and reading material(s).

 

*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)" pdf logo.png, the “Portable Document Format” that is the open standard for document exchange. If you have problems with that format, please try "(.pptx)" pdf logo.png, 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

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handout:
 First-Day Handout

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

  General Course Information
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COURSE STRUCTURE
ANTH 3888 Anthropology of Food
consists of three main segments:

  I Orientation and Background  
      Introduction  
      Basic Concepts  
      History  
      Theory  
      Methods and Techniques  
  II Explorations  
      Comparative / Cross-Cultural  
      Holistic (holism slides.pptx)  
      Ethnographic Case Studies from the Real World: Real People . . . Real Places from Around the Globe  
  III Student Presentations on Term Research Project


The Course in a Nutshell

COURSE CONTENT
primarily comes from the following sources . . .
   
 AF  1.0
  • "SUNDAY MEMO" for the week . . .
  •    
     AF  2.0
  • VIDEO EXPLORATIONS . . .
  •    
     AF  3.0
  • SLIDE PRESENTATIONS . . .
  •    
     AF  4.0
  • READINGS for the week . . .
  •    
     AF  5.0
  • OTHER ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION . . .
  •    
     AF  6.0
  • MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMS . . .
  •    
     AF  7.0
  • RESEARCH PROJECT for the term . . . on a topic of your choice related to the course
  •    
     AF  8.0
  • DISCUSSIONS . . . including your personal experiences
  •    
     AF  9.0
  • (optional) FOR FUN TRIVIA . . .
  •    
     AF 10.0
  • (optional) EXTRA CREDIT . . . on a topic of your choice related to the course
  •    
     AF 11.0
  • OTHER (optional) . . .
  •      
  • IN-THE-NEWS . . .
  • Course Structure
         

    PLEASE NOTE:

    Both the Midterm Exam and Final Exam are open-book/open-notes essay exams.

    So there should be very little work and effort spent on memorizing facts, other than, perhaps, where to go to find the information you are looking for.

    More Information on Exams: Midterm / Final

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    Orientation
    slides: (.pptx)
    (Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
    [see note on slide formats]
    ~
    handout:
     Anthropology and Its Parts
    ~
    • Have a look at the Main Characteristics of Anthropology full long slide deck (.pptx)
      or have a look at the Main Characteristics in segments . . .

      (NOTE: The full set is a long slide deck 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, or have a look at all of the various segments separately.)

        1. the four fields of anthropology (.pptx)

        2. culture as a primary concept (.pptx)

          • How about a little game of Jeopardy? (.pptx)

        3. comparative method as major approach (.pptx)

        4. holism as a primary theoretical goal (holism slides .pptx)

          • Anthropology and its Parts Chart (.pptx)

        5. fieldwork as a primary research technique (.pptx)
    WebPage Summary

    Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

    • "Other Important Terms"
      slides: (.pptx)

    • Units of Analysis
      slides:
      (.pptx)
       
    • Three Major Perennial Debates
      slides: (.pptx)

      (NOTE: These are long slide sets as they cover more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. Also see note on slide formats.)
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    Finding Information on Food of Different Countries and Cultures
    slides: (.pptx)
    (Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
    [see note on slide formats]
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    Week 1 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    INTRODUCTION, "SETTING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TABLE"

    Introduction

    An Anthrooplogical Appetite for Food

    Social Anthropological Methods and Principles

    Ethnographic Fieldwork--Local and Global

    A Theoretical Trifle

    Cuisines

    Glossary

    page through the Glossary on pp. 275-284 and familiarize yourelf with the terms

     

     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food

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    Week 1 Video Explorations


    Week 1 has no Video Explorations
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    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
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    Week 1 For Fun: Food Trivia
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    What is longest word ever to appear in all of literature?

    longest word

    Answer

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    Week 2

    "Omnivorousness: Defining Food"

    envelope
     Week 2 Memo

    Week 2 Day 3, Tuesday, 8 September 2015

    Week 2 Day 4, Thursday, 10 September 2015

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    Have a look at these linked materials from the Week 1 Reading Assignment, and look at the slide materials.

    Continue on in that same manner for all of the units that follow.

    When reviewing these materials remember that the exams are open-book / open-notes exams.

     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food

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    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 Moodle 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

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    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 a short presentation plus your term paper on your research

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    su2024 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 30 June 2024
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    Have a look at . . .

     Points for Forum Posts and Project Updates
    and
     compare these points with official UMD Grading Policies

    Forums, Sample Answers / Responses w / Grades
    Anth 3618 Ancient Middle America Forum Response Samples
    Anth 3635 Peoples and Cultures of Europe Forum Response Samples

    and if you have any questions about the points
    or about grading in general  . . . ask
     
    Review: Main Characteristics of Anthropology
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    Week 2 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART ONE: EDIBILITY

    CHAPTER ONE: OMNIVOROUSNESS: DEFINING FOOD

    Introduction

    Omnivorousness

    The Omnivore's Dilemma

    Food Classifications and Rules

    Humoral Classifications
    Dietary Taboos

    Nutritional Classifications

    State-Based Nutritional Food Rules
    State Dietary Guides
    Do-It-Yourself Diets


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food


    MyPlate (as of 2 June 2011 replaced MyPyramid which on 19 April 2005 replaced The Food Guide Pyramid)

    MyPlate
    New USDA food pyramid.
    Old USDA food pyramid.

      WebPage

     Nutrition label.


    USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pptx)
    [updated in 2005, then replaced by MyPlate in 2011]


    Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pptx)


     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)

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.

     Neolithic grindstone for processing grain.

      Neolithic grinding stone
     Prehistoric Iberia
      Spain | Portugal


    handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico"

     Tehuacan maize.
      Prehistoric Maize
     Tehuacán, Mexic

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    Week 2 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 2 Day 4

     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 some UM streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

     The Meaning of Food book.

    Marcus Samuelsson, host of The Meaning of Food and Executive Chef of Aquavit and Riingo.
    Marcus Samuelsson

     The Meaning of Food Video.
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    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 2 For Fun: Food Trivia
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    Week 2 First Question

    What would Willie Nelson's Last Supper be?

    One what?


    Willie Nelson

      Answer


    ~


    Week 2 Second Question


    What were the American frontiersman Kit Carson's Last Words?

     This is the last picture of Carson, which was taken by photographer James Wallace Black two months before his death. The portrait was made around March 20, 1868 during Carson's visit to Boston with Ouray and Ute chiefs. The print is signed by Carson and is the largest extant photograph of him.

    "This is the last picture of Carson, which was taken by photographer James Wallace Black two months before his death. The portrait was made around March 20, 1868 during Carson's visit to Boston with Ouray and Ute chiefs. The print is signed by Carson and is the largest extant photograph of him." -- Kit Carson, Wikipedia

    Answer

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    Week 3

    "Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production"

    Diet and Human Evolution
    Prehistory of Food and Subsistence

    Food in Historical Perspectives: Dietary Revolutions

    envelope
    Week 3 Memo


    Week 3 Day 5, Tuesday, 15 September 2015

    Week 3 Day 6, Thursday, 17 September 2015

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    su2024 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 30 June 2024
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    From the Week 2 Reading Assignment
    • Eating Culture, Part Two: Ingredients , Ch. 2, "Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production"

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

      • Teeth
      • Skulls and Jaws
      • The Postcranial Skeleton

    If you want to have a closer look at the primate chart in the slides: "Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates"
      • Adaptation (.pptx)
      • Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominini (.pptx)
      • Our Place in Nature (.pptx)
      • A Brief Who's Who of the Early Hominines (.pptx)
      • What Did Early Hominines Eat? (.pptx)
      • What Can We Say About the Diets of Fossil Homo (.pptx)
      • Highlight: Lactose Intolerance (.pptx)

        • Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pptx)
        • USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pptx [updated in 2005, then replaced by MyPlate in 2011]

      Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food

    ~
    Review: Main Characteristics of Anthropology
    ~
    Week 3 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART TWO: INGREDIENTS

    CHAPTER TWO: SETTLED INGREDIENTS: DOMESTIC FOOD PRODUCTION

    Introduction

    Food-Getting Strategies and Cuisines

    Hunting-Gathering or Foraging

    Domestication of Plants and Animals

    Pastoralism

    Horticulture

    Agriculture
    India

    Exchanging Ingredients and Flavors
    Local Exchanges
    Long-Distance Exchange—Flavours and Ingredients


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




     Omnivore's Dilemma

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

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.  

    We're continuing this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of Hunting and Gathering, and in Ch. 2 of Eating Culture we have a closer look at hunting / gathering /foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies.

    Chapter 3 of Eating Culture, focuses on Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrial Societies.

    ~
    Week 3 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 3 Day 5

    Did Cooking Make Us Human?
    (52 min., 2010, New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group)

    In-class Discussion

     BBC News film HomePage:
     Did the discovery of cooking make us human?
    -- BBCNews (02 March 2010)

      Did Cooking Make Us Human? information from SBS Documentary
     
     UMD on-line access

    (pursuant to licensing agreements some UMD streaming videos are not available outside of UMD)

    Video: Did Cooking Make Us Human?  BBC Horizon program.

      youku link
     view streaming video (youku)
      DocumentaryTube Link
     WatchDocumentary
     YouTube

      Video: Did Cooking Make Us Human?  BBC Horizon program.

     Class Cooking Page

     Prehistoric Cultures Class Fire Page


    in-class video Week 3 Day 6

    Holy Cow
    (60 min., 2004, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF195 .H65 2004 DVD)
    [second copy with Closed Captioning available]

    film HomePage
      course viewing guide

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

      Nature WebSite

    Holy Cow.

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

    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 3 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    The human brain encodes what three factors in processing nouns?

    the human brain

    Answer

    ~

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    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

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    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
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    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    ~
    su2024 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 30 June 2024
     
    su2024 Wk 4 Midterm Exam Submitted Question Due by Sunday, 30 June 2024

    Early next week you can review the questions and my comments there, and use them as study questions
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
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    Week 4

    "Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production"

    envelope
    Week 4 Memo

    Memo: Wiki Study Questions

    Week 4 Day 7, Tuesday, 22 September 2015

    Week 4 Day 8, Thursday, 24 September 2015

    ~


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food

    This Week . . .

    1. read the Week 4 Memo
    2. have a look at the video and video clips
    3. read the assigned readings
    4. peruse the WebPages (below)
    5. catch up on your assignments
    6. start thinking about reviewing for the Midterm Exam, and
    7. work on your Project

    There are no new slide sets at this time

    Ketchup
    catch up / review / preview
     

    From the Week 3 Reading Assignment

    Eating Culture, Part Two: Ingredients, Ch. 2, "Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production"

    (The materials from Ch. 2 is supplemented with the video Desert People, a classic film on one of the last gathering / foraging peoples discovered.)

     
    • Hunter-Gathering / Foraging
      • Demographic Issues of Foragers
      • Social, Political, and Ideological Features of Foragers
      • Diet and Health of Foragers
      • Food Preferences of Foragers
      • Nutrition and Health of Foragers

    • Horticulture
      • Social, Political, and Ideological Features of Horticulturalists
      • Diet and Health of Horticulturalists

    • Pastoralism
      • Social, Political, and Ideological Features of Pastoralism
      • Diet and Health of Pastoralists

    • Intensive Agriculture
      • Social, Political, and Ideological Features of Intensive Agriculture

    • Contemporary Peasant Societies
      • The Transition to Market Economies

      Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food


    "Hunter-Gathering or Foraging"

    "Horticulture"
     Horticulture WebPage (optional resources)

    "Pastoralism"

    Pastoralism WebPage (optional resources)

    "Intensive Agriculture"


    Contemporary Peasant Societies

    Review "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"


    Where Do Cuisines Come From?



    Tehuacan maize.
    Maize god.
    Maize God
    Temple 22
    A.D. 680-750
    Copán, Honduras
    Netsilik man hunting.
    Hunting seal on the Spring Ice


    [Research does not support the folk etymology of "Eskimo" as "eaters of raw meat"]

    Neandertal hunter.

    Neandertal Hunter
    Nepal girl with yak_100.
    Girl with baby yak
    Nepal
     
    Nepal girl with yak_100.
    Yak milking

    Tibet
    Aztec statuary of a male figure holding a cacao pod.
    Aztec Cacao Sculpture
     
    Azted feast.
    Aztec Feast

    Indians harvesting wild rice near Brainerd, 1905

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

    ~

    peruse:
    "Extreme Cuisine"

    Entomophagy WebPage
    (optional resource)

     Durian.

    Durian

    video: Durian
    ~
    peruse:
     Anthropophagy

    See this Week 's Forums
    ~
    Notes:
    Start Reviewing for the Midterm Exam
    ~
    Week 4 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART TWO: INGREDIENTS

    CHAPTER THREE: MOBILE INGREDIENTS: GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION

    Introduction

    Further Agricultural Intensification

    Exporting Industrial Agriculture
    India
    Guatemala
    British Columbia

    Commercializing Food: Industrial and National Cuisines


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




    The Language of Food

    "Introduction"

    Ch. 1 "How to Read a Menu"


     The Language of Food


     
    ~
    Week 4 Video Explorations
    ~

    in-class video Week 4 Day 8

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

    view streaming video

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

     The Meaning of Food book.


    ~

    view video clip on-line:

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


    Eating rat, Vietnam.

    "Eating Rat at the New Year"
    Vietnam

     Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market -- Kevin Doyle, BBCNews (24 August 2014)

    ~

    view video clip on-line:

    "Eating Bats in Thai Village"
     
    video clip
    -- National Geographic News
    (02:50, 2008, on-line)


    ~

    view video clip on-line:

    "Eating Live Octopus"
     
    video clip
    -- National Geographic News
    (03:47 2011, on-line)


    ~

    (optional)

    including
    "Eating Insects"
    (U.S.A, California)

    Animated bug.

    -- National Geographic News
    (3:34, 2008, on-line)


     Special Offer
    for Students Enrolled in Anthropology of Food 3888

    Hotlix Scorpion Sucker.

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

    ~

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

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

    view video on-line:

    Food for Body and Spirit
    (29 min., 1984, VC 714)

    (29 min., 1984, UM DULUTH Martin Library DVD TX724.5.C5 F66 1984)
    [second copy with Closed Captioning available]


    film HomePage
      course viewing guide


    view streaming video

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

    (China) (On-line Optional Resource)
     Food of China
    (On-line Optional Resource)

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


     Food for Body and Spirit.
    ~
    ~

    For Extra Credit, view the documentary The Grind, and submit a review comparing the Faroe Islands whaling practice with the Makah American Indian whaling practices seen in The Meaning of Food: "Food & Culture" and/or those seen in the The Cove.

     The Grind, Faroe Islands

    Extra Credit information is available at
    <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afextracredit_review.html#title>

    ~
    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 4 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

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

    Woman and Blueberries, Parick DesJarlait, 1971

    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


      Answer

    ~
     
    su2024 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 30 June 2024
     
    su2024 Wk 4 Midterm Exam Submitted Question Due by Sunday, 30 June 2024

    Early next week you can review the questions and my comments there, and use them as study questions
    ~

    ~
    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
    ~

    ~
    su2024 Wk 4 Midterm Exam Submitted Question Due by Sunday, 30 June 2024

    Early next week you can review the questions and my comments there, and use them as study questions
    ~
    ~
    Week 5

    "Cooks and Kitchens"

    Hunter-Gathering or Foraging, and the Emergence of Food Production

    and Midterm Preparations


    envelope
    Week 5 Memo

    Memo: Live Chat / Midterm Exam

    Week 5 Day 9, Tuesday, 29 September 2015

    Week 5 Day 10, Thursday, 1 October 2015

    ~
    Review for the Midterm Exam
     


    This week our initial focus is the
    controlled comparison—

    Chinese : Buddhism : Food
    in China and Malaysia

    Last week on-line
    in Food for Body and Spirit

    we had a look at
    a Chinese Taoist temple
    and Buddhist Slow Food
    and food as medicine,
    and locavorism
    which has a thousand year history . . .

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

    This week, we'll see
    how food tears apart a major segment of Chinese culture in Malaysia . . .
    in the video
    The Pig Commandments

    See Week 5 Video Explorations

    ~
    Week 5 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART THREE: COOKING

    CHAPTER FOUR: COOKS AND KITCHENS

    Introduction

    The Origins of Fire Use and Cooking

    Cooking Techniques

    Cooking and Food-Getting Strategies

    Thinking through Cooking: The Culinary Triangle

    Cooking and Gender

    Men's Conspicuous Cooking: Public Cuisine
    French Chefs and the Shaping of Cuisine

    Domestic Kitchens" Home-Cooked Cuisines


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




    The Language of Food

    Ch. 2 "Entrée"

    Ch. 3 "From Sikbāj to Fish and Chips"


     The Language of Food


    ~
    Week 5 Video Explorations


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

    A comparative look . . .

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

    Last week we had 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 saw how food
    holds a part of Chinese culture together . . .

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

    in-class video Week 5 Day 9

    The Pig Commandments
    (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
    (70 min?)
    film HomePage
      course viewing guide

    transcript

    view streaming video

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

     Pig Commandment pig.
    The Pig Commandments

    Shaikh Hussain Ye of Malaysia.
      Shaikh Hussain Ye
      Malaysia



    (China) (On-line Optional Resource)
    (Malaysia)
    (On-line Optional Resource)
    [food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia


    "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, 2nd Ed.
    (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994)

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



    in-class video Week 5 Day 10

    The Desert People

    (51 min., 1965, UM Duluth Martin Library Multimedia DVD DU 125 .P48 D47 2011)

    In-class Discussion

    course viewing guide
    ~

    Desert People is now captioned and digitized online . . .

     http://primo.lib.umn.edu/DULUTH:blended:UMN_ALMA21617497270001701

    Click on "View Online" tab and sign in with UMD Credentials

    Use Virtual Private Network (VPN) if off campus (UMD)
    See UM Video Playbacks for details

    (51 min., 1965, UM Duluth Martin Library Multimedia DVD DU 125 .P48 D47 2011)

    ~
    Desert People, boy eating
     
    Desert People, boy eating lizzard.
    Eating a "grub worm"
    video: Desert People
    Australia
     
    Eating a lizard
    Australia
    If you liked the film, you might also enjoy . . .
    The Paleo Diet book
    The Paleo Diet book
    see also
     Prehistoric Diets WebPage
    and

    related slides:


    Review

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

      • Teeth
      • Skulls and Jaws
      • The Postcranial Skeleton

    If you want to have a closer look at the primate chart in the slides: "Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates"
      • Adaptation (.pptx)
      • Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominini (.pptx)
      • Our Place in Nature (.pptx)
      • A Brief Who's Who of the Early Hominines (.pptx)
      • What Did Early Hominines Eat? (.pptx)
      • What Can We Say About the Diets of Fossil Homo (.pptx)
      • Highlight: Lactose Intolerance (.pptx)

        • Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pptx)
        • USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pptx [updated in 2005, then replaced by MyPlate in 2011]

    Nutritional Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution:
    A Comparison of Foragers  and Agriculturalists
    (Indian Knoll and Hardin Village)
    (.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).

    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 5 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

     Answer
    ~

    s2024 Wk 7 Project formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 25 February 2024 (submit them together)

    ~
    Week 6

    Midterm Exam
    and after the exam . . .
    "Recipes and Dishes"

    envelope
    Week 6 Memo


    Week 6 Day 11 Tuesday, 6 October 2015
    Midterm Exam

    Week 6 Day 12, Thursday, 8 October 2015

    ~
    Midterm Exam

    s2024 Wk 6 The LIVE CHAT for the Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
    s2024 Wk 6 the Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, 12 February 2024 to 11:59 p.m. (10:00 p.m. starting time), Saturday, 17 February 2024

    NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 1-5, so be sure not to miss watching them.

    Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afvideo_schedule.html#week01>


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

    ~
    Week 6 Reading Assignment
    (after the Midterm Exam)



    Eating Culture

    PART THREE: COOKING

    CHAPTER FIVE: RECIPES AND DISHES

    Introduction

    Recipes: Creating Dishes

    Experiential Cooking: Domestic Recipes

    Textual Cooking: Commercial Recipes

    Cookbooks: Codifying National Cuisines

    British Cuisine: Cookbooks and Dishes

    Cookbooks: Travelling Recipes and Dishes


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




     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"

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.

    ~
    Week 6 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 6 Day 12
    and Week 7 Day 13

    video--International Focus:

    We Feed the World
    (96 min., CC, 2005, DVD 1330)

    In-class Discussion

    film HomePage
      course viewing guide


    view streaming video

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

      We feed the world -- Google Videos

     Picture from We Feed the World.


    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.



    Optional, for Extra Credit:

    video--International Focus:

    Our Daily Bread
    (92 min., CC, but almost without dialogue, 2005, DVD 1988)

    film HomePage
     
    course viewing guide

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

    Our Daily Bread-- Wikipedia

    also available from Goodle Videos

     Our Daily Bread film poster.

    For its real impact, watch Our Daily Bread 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
    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 6 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

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

    Ireland Famine Memorial, Dublin

    Answer

    ~

    s2024 Wk 7 Project formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 25 February 2024 (submit them together)

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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

    ~
    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
    ~
    ~

    Week 7

    "Eating-In: Commensality and Gastro-Politics"

    Midterm Exam Review

    Guest: Stu Sivertson

    envelope
    Week 7 Memo

    Week 7 Day 13 Tuesday, 13 October 2015

    Week 7 Day 14, Thursday, 15 October 2015

    ~

    in-class video Week 6 Day 12
    and Week 7 Day 13

    video--International Focus:

    (cont.)

    We Feed the World
    (96 min., CC, 2005, DVD 1330)

    In-class Discussion

    film HomePage
      course viewing guide


    view streaming video

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

      We feed the world -- Google Videos

     Picture from We Feed the World.


    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.
    ~

    Week 7 Day 14
    Guest Lecture
    United States Focus:

    Local and Regional Foods and Food Issues

    Stuart Sivertson
    Retired President and CEO of Lake Superior Fish Co.,
    est. 1892

    Lake Superior Fish Company is a retailer of fresh, frozen and smoked fish. The firm traces its roots back to the late nineteenth century . . .

    Rainbow smelt.
    smelt
    Nordic Neolithic fishhook.
    Nordic Neolithic

     Lake Superior Fish Company logo.

     Lake Superior Fish Company logo.

     Isle Royal Transportation banner.

    Lake Superior map from Google Earth.

    (1000 X 710)


    Lake superior -- Google Earth

    ~
    ~
    Week 7 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART FOUR: EATING

    CHAPTER SIX: EATING-IN: COMMENSALITY AND GASTRO-POLITICS

    Introduction

    Patterns of Eating

    When: Mealtimes

    What: Dishes and Proper Meals

    How: Commensality

    Where: Private and Pubic

    Who: Kin to Strangers

    Gastro-politics

    Special Meals: Feasting
    Celebratory Feasts
    Entrepreneurial Feasts
    Patron Feasts
    Exclusive Feasts


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




     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"
     Omnivore's Dilemma text.

    ~
    Week 7 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 6 Day 12
    and Week 7 Day 13

    video--International Focus:

    (cont.)

    We Feed the World
    (96 min., CC, 2005, DVD 1330)

    In-class Discussion

    film HomePage
      course viewing guide


    view streaming video

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

     We feed the world -- Google Videos

     Picture from We Feed the World.


    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.
    Picture from We Feed the World.

    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 7 For Fun
    ~

    Downton Abbey

    For Fun, from PBS:

    Manners Maketh
    Niceties for formal occasions.

    Brush up on English table etiquette
    and see if you have what it takes for a seat at the table
    on Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE.

    Do you have what it takes to sit at a proper English table?

    Test your knowledge.

    Take the Quiz 

    Bonus:

     Food Secrets of Downton Abbey


    The Fifth Series began airing in the United States on 4 January 2015

     

    In what region of Italy do Italians traditionally eat spaghetti with meatballs?

    (It's tricky, like eating long spaghetti with a fork.)

     spaghetti and meatballs

     Answer
    ~

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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     
    ~
    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
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    Week 8

    "Eating-Out and Gastronomy"
    envelope
    Week 8 Memo

    Week 8 Day 15, Tuesday, 20 October 2015

    Week 8 Day 16, Thursday, 22 October 2015

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    Postponed until Week 10 Day 18
    Tuesday 3 November 2015

    Week 8 Day 15, Tuesday, 20 October 2015

    Guest:
    Randy Hanson

     Victus Farm Project
    The Sustainable Agriculture Project
     Center For Sustainable Community Development

    Randy Hanson
    Kuchera

    "As you know, the food, farming & gardening projects at UMD are well underway... the Sustainable Ag Project will be doing a lot of things at the farm beginning in April.  We want to invite you to include service learning opportunities for your students/classes if this is fitting... for the farm projects.  These SAP activities are mostly student centered and we can always use the help... and students generally feel good about helping build these things.  

    "Let me know if you have any questions . . . we will be scheduling various things including fence building, orchard planting, ethobotany/medicinal garden planting, model school garden installation, and the Dining Services garden planting going forward as the weather allows . . . beginning in April or so."


    links from class Week 09 Day 18

     Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association

     Sustainable Agriculture Class WebSite

    ~
    Week 8 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART FOUR: EATING

    CHAPTER SEVEN: EATING-OUT AND GASTRONOMY

    Introduction

    Eating Away from Home: A Risky Business?

    Street Food: Eating Standing Up

    Public Eating: Sitting Down

    Characteristics of Restaurants

    Gastronomy: Cultivating Culinary Taste

    Types of Restaurants: Culinary Foodscapes
    Indigenous Restaurants
    Mainstream Restaurants
    Immigrants and Ethnic Restaurants

    Indian Cuisine in Britain

    Chinese Cuisine in North America

    Restaurants as "Ethnosites": Cross-Cultural Encounters


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



     Omnivore's Dilemma

      • Ch. 8 "All flesh is grass"
      • Ch. 9 "Big Organic"
      • Ch. 10 "Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture"
      • Ch. 11 "The animals: practicing complexity"

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.

     


    ~
    Week 8 Video Explorations


    watch video on-line, Week 8

    United States Focus:

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

      film homepage

      Independent lens King Corn page

    view streaming video

    (double click on QuickTime© window)
    (pursuant to licensing agreements some UM 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)
    [second copy with Closed Captioning available]

    view View Online
    from UMD Library streaming video

    If you are off-campus use Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection)
    (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."

    King Corn Movie Poster
     
    King Corn Movie Poster

    in-class video Week 8 Day 16

    video--United States Focus:

    Food Fight
    (Educational Edition is 48 min.)
    (73 min., 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD1761 .F66 2008 DVD)

    In-class Discussion
    (with 48 min. version)

    film homepage

      Course Viewing Guide

    view streaming video

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

      Food Flight -- SnagFilms

     Food Fight film.

    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 8 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    What do Italian biscotti (biscotti di Prado) and German zwiebach have in common?


    Biscotti
     
    Bergischer Zwieback der Bergischen Kaffetafel in Radevormwald, Kottmannshausen 1.
    German zwiebach
    Italian biscotti

      Answer
    ~

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    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

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    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
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    TR HomePage
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    Week 9

    "Gastro-Anomie: Global Indigestion?"


    envelope
    Week 9 Memo

    Week 9 Day 17, Tuesday, 27 October 2015

    Thursday, 29 October 2015
    Fall Break

    ~


    Obesity, Anorexia and Related Problems: An Introduction



     Dying to be thin.
    "Dying to be thin"

    UMD National Eating Disorders Week Poster.
      National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

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

     
    COURSE STRUCTURE
    ANTH 3888 Anthropology of Food
    consists of three main segments:

      I Orientation and Background  
          Introduction  
          Basic Concepts  
          History  
          Theory  
          Methods and Techniques  
      II Explorations  
          Comparative / Cross-Cultural  
          Holistic (holism slides.pptx)  
          Ethnographic Case Studies from the Real World: Real People . . . Real Places from Around the Globe  
      III Student Presentations on Term Research Project


    The Course in a Nutshell

    COURSE CONTENT
    primarily comes from the following sources . . .
       
     AF  1.0
  • "SUNDAY MEMO" for the week . . .
  •    
     AF  2.0
  • VIDEO EXPLORATIONS . . .
  •    
     AF  3.0
  • SLIDE PRESENTATIONS . . .
  •    
     AF  4.0
  • READINGS for the week . . .
  •    
     AF  5.0
  • OTHER ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION . . .
  •    
     AF  6.0
  • MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMS . . .
  •    
     AF  7.0
  • RESEARCH PROJECT for the term . . . on a topic of your choice related to the course
  •    
     AF  8.0
  • DISCUSSIONS . . . including your personal experiences
  •    
     AF  9.0
  • (optional) FOR FUN TRIVIA . . .
  •    
     AF 10.0
  • (optional) EXTRA CREDIT . . . on a topic of your choice related to the course
  •    
     AF 11.0
  • OTHER (optional) . . .
  •      
  • IN-THE-NEWS . . .
  • Course Structure
         

    PLEASE NOTE:

    Both the Midterm Exam and Final Exam are open-book/open-notes essay exams.

    So there should be very little work and effort spent on memorizing facts, other than, perhaps, where to go to find the information you are looking for.

    More Information on Exams: Midterm / Final

     

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

    "Can We Make Food Good For All?"
    (128 min., 6 October 2010)

     Bina Agarwal

    Nobel Conference 46 "Making Food Good"


     Bina Agarwal Nobel Conference Page

     view video on-line

      captioned link
    (Chrome suggested for viewing)

     Bina Agarwal

    ~
    Week 9 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART FIVE: DIGESTING

    CHAPTER EIGHT: GASTRO-ANOMIE: GLOBAL INDIGESTION?

    Introduction

    Globalized Industrial Food: Gastro-anomie

    Indigenous Gastro-anomie

    Digesting the Discourse

    Angry Farmers: Food Sovereignty

    Food Crises: Food Security

    Food Insecurity: Health, Gastro-anomie, and Cuisines


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



    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"

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.



    Hunger and Obesity in Global Perspective

    • What is Meant by Hunger and Malnutrition / Undernourishment?

      • Nutritional Quality of Food
      • Types of Undernutrition
      • Micronutrient Malnutrition
      • Measuring Protein–Energy Malnutrition (PEM)

    • What Are the Causes of Undernourishment and Malnutrition?

      • The Factors Influencing Adequate Nutrition
        • Food Availability

    • Who Are the Hungry and Malnourished?

      • Education
      • Household Distribution
      • Entitlements
      • Food Sufficiency

        • The Factors in the Food Sufficiency Equation
          • Population
          • Food Production
          • Women in Agriculture

      • Self-Sufficiency and National Food Security
      • Food Aid and Trade

        • Decrease Food Aid to Other Countries
        • Trade Imbalances
        • Food Aid as Food Subsidy
    • Obesity / Overweight in Children

    • Projections for the Future?

    • Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security of Small Farmers

      • Land Distribution and Agrarian Reform
      • Credit, Marketing, and Price Systems
      • Agricultural Research and Extension
      • Income
        • Alleviating Poverty and Redistributing Income
      • Protecting Food Crop Production
      • Land Tenure
      • Health and Sanitation
      • The Role of Biotechnology

    • Postscript: Legacy / Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution

      Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food
    ~
    Week 9 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 9 Day 17

    Soul Food Junkies

    "A Film about Food, Family, and Tradition"

    (ca. 60 min., CC, 2013, UM Duluth Library Multimedia - DVD TX715 .S68 2013)

    Soul Food Junkies (UMD Library)

     Soul Food Junkies website

     

     The Meaning of Food book.



    in-class video Week 9 Day 18

    finish reading The Meaning of Food pp. 106-157 (optional recommended) 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 some UM streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

     Tim Roufs at the White Palace Grill, Chicago.

    Chicago, U.S.A.


    iin-class video Week 9 Day 18

    The Meaning of Food, Episode 3: "Food & Family"
    looks at the complex way food defines families

    (optional recommended) 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"

     The Meaning of Food book.

    and

     Slow Food logo.

    and

    Slow food, from The Meaning of Food.
    Slow food, Thera, Greece.
    Slow Food
    National Geographic Videos (3:25 min)


    Slow Food logo.
      Slow Food Lake Superior


    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 9 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

    What does "Häagen-Dazs" mean?

    1. "Happy Days"
    2. "High Life"
    3. "Danish Delight"
    4. It's a Family Name
    5. Absolutely Nothing

    Answer

    ~

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    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
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    Student Presentations I

    start
    Week 12 Day 22

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

    ~
    ~
    Week 10

    "Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home"

    and

    The Two Fat Ladies


    envelope
    Week 10 Memo

    Week 10 Day 18, Tuesday, 3 November 2015

    Week 10 Day 19, Thursday, 5 November 2015

    ~
    review

      Eating Culture, Ch. 8, "Gastro-anomie: Global Indigestion?"

     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food

    ~

    In addition to watching "Timber!" we'll have a look at the slides from the last chapter of Sherri A. Inness' book Secret Ingredients . . .

    Two Fat Ladies slides (.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 we're finished with the Two Fat Ladies slides based on Secret Ingredients, Ch. 8, we'll have a look at the slides on Obesity and on Eating Disorders (as time permits) . . .

    Obesity and Eating Disorders . . .

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


    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: (.pptx)

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

    ~
    Week 10 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    PART FIVE: DIGESTING

    CHAPTER NINE: LOCAL DIGESTION: MAKING THE GLOBAL AT HOME

    Introduction

    Localizing Global Foods: From Sushi to Hamburgers

    Globalized Commodities

    Locavorism: Eating Locally

    Farmers' Markets: Local Foods and Faces

    Ethical Consumers: Local and Global Implications


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




    The Language of Food

    Ch. 4 "Ketchup, Cocktails, and Pirates"

    Ch. 5 "A Toast to Toast"


     The Language of Food


    ~
    Week 10 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 10 Day 19

    This Week we meet the classic . . .

    Two Fat Ladies
    "Timber!"

    Series 4 Episode 23
    (30 min., 2008, UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX717 .T86 2008 DVD)
    film HomePage

    In-class Discussion

    course viewing guide

    view streaming video

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

     The Global Banquet: Politics of Food.

    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. . . .)

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

    Video Explorations:

    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.

     Systematic Data Collection, Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney.

     Freelists -- Steve Borgatti


    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Week 10 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    Is President Obama's Chili a Winner?

    President Obama

     Answer

    ~

    Today is Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    ~


    Student Presentations I

    start
    Week 12 Day 22

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

     
    ~
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    ~
    Week 11

    "Epilogue: Leftovers to Takeaway"

    Primer on Presentations and Term Papers

    The Language of Food

    envelope
    Week 11 Memo

    Week 11 Day 20, Tuesday, 10 November 2015

    Week 11 Day 21, Thursday, 12 November 2015

    ~

    Week 11 Day 21

    Primer on Presentations and Term Papers

    ~
    Week 11 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture

    "EPILOGUE: LEFTOVERS TO TAKEAWAY"

    Takeaway Cuisine

    Takeaway Leftovers


     Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food




    The Language of Food

    Ch. 6 "Who Are You Calling a Turkey?"

    Ch. 7 "Sex, Drugs, and Sushi Rolls"


     The Language of Food


    ~
    Week 11 Video Explorations


    in-class video Week 11 Day 20

    Designer Foods . . .

     Food Design

    Food Design takes a sneak peek into the secret laboratories of a major food manufacturer, where designers and scientists are developing your favorite mouthful of tomorrow

    In-class Discussion

     watch Food Design via UM Duluth Library Multimedia EZProxy Server

    from an off-campus site you may need to use UMD's
      VPN Service: Virtual Private Network to successfully connect

    The film Food Design is also available (with advertising) from Snag Films

    Food Design

    Directors
    Martin Hablesreiter
      Sonja Stummerer

    Producers Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    Markus Glaser
    Michael Kitzberger
    Wolfgang Widerhofer

     film Snag HomePage

      view on-line from Snag Films
    [contains advertising]
     Food Chemistry class WebPage

     Food Science class WebPage



    Watch on-line, Week 11

     Feeding Frenzy - The Food Industry, Marketing & the Creation of a Health Crisis
    (63 min., 2013, UM Duluth Library Multimedia RA645.O23 F43 2013)

    Feeding Frenzy (UMD Library)

    "Over the past three decades, obesity rates in the U.S. have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents -- and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening epidemic of obesity-related health problems, including coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. While discussions about this spiraling health crisis have tended to focus on the need for more exercise and individual responsibility, Feeding Frenzy trains its focus squarely on the responsibility of the processed food industry and the outmoded government policies it benefits from. It lays bare how taxpayer subsidies designed to feed hungry Americans during the Great Depression have enabled the food industry to flood the market with a rising tide of cheap, addictive, high calorie food products, and offers an engrossing look at the tactics of the multibillion-dollar marketing machine charged with making sure that every one of those surplus calories is consumed."


     Feeding Frenzy


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

    Supersize Me

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

    Fast Food Nation

    Killer at Large


    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    Have a look at the other Students' Presentations
    ~
    Week 11 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~
    ~


    How much water does it take to grow a hamburger?

    cheezeburger

     Answer

    ~
    ~


    How far do you have to run to burn off a burger?

    cheezeburger

     Answer

    ~

    Today is Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     
    ~
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    ~
    Week 12


    Student Presentations I


    Student Presentations II

    Food, Inc. or American Meat


    envelope
    Week 12 Memo

    Week 12 Day 22, Tuesday, 17 November 2015

    Week 12 Day 23, Thursday, 19 November 2015

    ~

    Week 12 Day 22


    Guests:
    Rheanna Letsos
      Duluth Community Garden Program


    Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association Chapter Coordinator

    Duluth Community Garden Program



     Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association

    Lake Superior Sustainable Agriculture Association

     Sustainable Agriculture Class WebSite

     Locavore Class WebPage

     

    Week 12 Day 22

    Student Presentations I

    see Moodle schedule for details

    ~

    Week 12 Day 23

    Student Presentations II

    see Moodle schedule for details

    ~
    Week 12 Reading Assignment



    The Language of Food

    Ch. 8 "Potato Chips and the Nature of the Self"

    Ch. 9 "Salad, Salsa, and the Flour of Chivalry"


     The Language of Food



    Work on Readings for Your Project
    ~
    Week 12 Video Explorations

    View on-line, Week 12, American Meat (below), or . . .

    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 some UM streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

     Picture from We Feed the World.


    View on-line, Week 12, Food, Inc. (above) or . . .

    American Meat

    View Online
    from UMD Library streaming video

    If you are off-campus use Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection)
    (pursuant to licensing agreements some UM streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

    (85 min., 2011, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)
    (UM Duluth Library Multimedia Guide BJ52.5 .A44 2011 DVD)




    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    For Week's Activities see the "Syllabus" or "Calendar" in your Canvas Folder

    These include items like Forum postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities,

    ~
    Week 12 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    How big is a modern industrial fish trawler net compared to the UMD Administration Building?

    Trawler in Skagen Harbor, northern Denmark.

    Answer

    ~

     


    Today is Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

    ~
    Holidays Fall 2020
    Week 2 Labor Day (U.S.A.) 7 September 2020
    Weeks 3-4 Rosh Hashanah from sunset, 18 September - nightfall, 20 September 2020
    Week 6 Yom Kippur from sunset, 8 October - nightfall, 9 October 2019
    Week 7 Thanksgiving (Canada) 12 October 2020
    Week 10 Dia de los Muertos 2 November 2020
    Allhallowtide:

       31 October 2020
        1 November 2020 All Saints' Day
        2 November 2020 All Souls' Day
    Week 11 Diwali ("festival of lights") 14 November 2020 (in Nepal, India (North) and several other countries)
    Week 13 Thanksgiving (United States) 26 November 2020
    ~

    For Week's Activities see the "Syllabus" or "Calendar" in your Canvas Folder

    These include items like Forum postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities,

    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    ~
    Week 13

    Term Paper Writing Review

    Student Presentations III

    The End of the Line

    envelope
    Week 13 Memo

    Week 13 Day 24, Tuesday, 24 November 2015

    No Class Tuesday, 24 November 2015
    as I will be at an International Anthropology Conference in Budapest, Hungary


    Thursday, 26 November 2015
    Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S.A.

    ~

    No Class Tuesday, 24 November 2015
    as I will be at an International Anthropology Conference in Budapest, Hungary

    Week 13 Day 24

    Student Presentations I

    see Moodle schedule for details


    No Class Tuesday, 24 November 2015
    as I will be at an International Anthropology Conference in Budapest, Hungary

    Week 13 Day 24

    Term Paper Review

    (time permitting)

     
     
    ~
    Week 13 Reading Assignment



    The Language of Food

    Ch. 10 "Macaroon, Macaron, Macaroni"

    Ch. 11 "Sherbet, Fireworks, and Mint Juleps"


     The Language of Food



    Work on Readings for Your Term Paper
    (which is due next week)
    ~
    Week 13 Video Explorations



    view video on-line, Week 13

    The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat
    (85 min., CC, 2010, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SH329.O94 E43 2010 DVD

    UMD Library Link

    film HomePage
      course viewing guide


    view streaming video

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

      The End of the Line -- Wikipedia

     End of the Line film poster


    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~

    Week 13 Assignment

    Have a look at the other Students' Presentations


    s2024 Wk 13 (optional) Extra Credit Paper(s) due by Sunday, 14 April 2024

    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?

    NOTE: The Canvas Gradebook entry for Extra Credit requires that “out of zero” be used when setting up an Extra Credit assignment.

    ~
    Ketchup
    catch up / review / preview
    ~
    Week 13 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    Are you really what you eat?

    Answer

    ~

    Today is Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024
    August 2020
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      S M T W T F S
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    December 2020
      S M T W T F S
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      20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

    ~

    s2024 Wk 14 Final Exam Submitted Question due by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 21 April 2024.
    ~
    s2024 Wk 14 Term Paper (up to 400 points) due by Sunday, 21 April 2024.

    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?
    ~

    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage

    ~

    Week 14

    Student Presentations IV

    Student Presentations V

    FRESH

    In Organic We Trust

    envelope
    Week 14 Memo
    Week 14 REM Final Exam Question Wiki

    Week 14 Day 25, Tuesday, 1 December 2015

    Week 14 Day 26, Thursday, 3 December 2015

    ~

    Week 14 Day 25

    Student Presentations IV

    see Moodle schedule for details


    Week 14 Day 26

    Student Presentations V

    see Moodle schedule for details

    ~

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

    Cadbury
    Chocolate bar 88%.
    Cholate bar 99%.

    chocolate
    ~
    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"

     Omnivore's Dilemma text.




    Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



    Omnivore's Dilemma text.



    The Language of Food
    ~
    Week 14 Video Explorations



    View on-line video Week 14


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

      UMD Library Link

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

    FRESH poster.


    View On-line, Week 14

    Film: In Organic We Trust.
     

    USDA Organic


    In Organic We Trust image.


    In Organic We Trust

    (81 min.,UM Duluth Library Multimedia S605.5 .I56 2012 DVD)
    [second copy with Closed Captioning available]

     on-line streaming

    UMD Library on-line streaming link

     

      on-line streaming with Closed Captioning

    UMD Library Closed Captioned on-line streaming link

    [from a UMD account or via VPN]


    ~

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

    The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food.
     

    Global Banquet.

    The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food

    (50 min., 2001, VC 4770)
    (56 min.?)
    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
     
    s2024 Wk 14 Final Exam Submitted Question due by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 21 April 2024.
    ~
    s2024 Wk 14 Term Paper (up to 400 points) due by Sunday, 21 April 2024.

    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?
    ~
    Week 14 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

    tba

    Answer

    © 2011-2014 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
    ~

    Today is Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 05:42 (05:42 AM) CDT, day 079 of 2024
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      S M T W T F S
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

    ~
    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    s2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 3 May 2024.

    su2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 26 July 2024.

     
    Week 15

    The End . . . and The Future

    Focus: Wrapping it All Up

    Student Presentations

    Course Evaluation

    Summary / Review
    Final Exam Notes

    The Future of Food

    The Cove

     Wrapping it up

    envelope
    Week 15 Memo

    End of Term Memo

    Week 15 Day 27, Tuesday, 8 December 2015

    Week 15 Day 28,Thursday, 10 December 2015

    ~
     Lady Justice (Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice).
    f2f Course Evaluation

    Anth 3888 - 001

    Course Call # = 10090
    Semester = 3 Fall
    Year = 15

    The on-line evaluation form will be made available the last week of class.

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

    If you encounter any problems accessing the evaluation, please contact Stacy Schweikert, the system admin for the application, at slschwe@d.umn.edu or 218.726.8852.

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

    Please click on the link which will be provided

    Thanks,

    Tim Roufs



    Week 15 Day 27

    Student Presentations VI

    see Moodle schedule for details


    ~
    Week 15 Reading Assignment



    The Language of Food

    Ch. 12 "Does This Name Make Me Sound Fat? Why Ice Cream and Crackers Have Different Names"

    Ch. 13 "Why the Chinese Don't Have Dessert"

    "Epilogue"


     The Language of Food




    Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



    Omnivore's Dilemma text.



    The Language of Food
    ~
    Week 15 Video Explorations
    ~

    On-line video Week 15
    The Cove]
    (92 min., CC, 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia QL737.C432 C68 2009 DVD)

    UMD Library Link

     class film HomePage

    film HomePage

      The Cove -- Wikipedia

    view streaming video

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

    The Cove Poster



    For Extra Credit, view the documentary The Grind, and submit a review comparing the Faroe Islands whaling practice with the Makah American Indian whaling practices seen in The Meaning of Food: "Food & Culture" and/or those seen in the The Cove.

     

    Extra Credit information is available at
    <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afextracredit_review.html#title>

    ~
    ~

    Week 15 Day 30

    The Future of Food

    World Food Clock [including food waste]
    -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

    World Food Clock

    ~

    in-class video Week 15 Day 28
    (time permitting)

     HRH Prince Charles On the Future of Food

    Keynote Speech to The Future of Food Conference
    at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
    4 May 2011
    (50 min., 2011, YouTube )

    view on-line

     On the Future of Fod, HRH The Prince of Wales.

     

    Rodale Books . . . His Royal Highness Prince Charles's Landmark Speech "On the Future of Food" -- NY (14 February 2012)

    ISBN-10: 1609614712
    ISBN-13: 978-1609614713

     Rodale Books, 2012

    transcript

     On the Future of Fod, HRH The Prince of Wales.



    If you have not done an optional Film/Lecture Review Extra Credit Paper, you may watch The Future of Food by Deborah Koons Garcia and compare and contrast it with the HRH Princh Charles lecture for an optional Review Extra Credit paper
    (this may be turned in at the end of the term).

    Extra Credit Review Option Details

    view video on-line for extra credit (optional), and compare with HRH Prince Charles' vision of "On tThe Future of Food"

    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

    UMD Library Link with Closed Captioning
    <http://primo.lib.umn.edu/DULUTH:blended:UMN_ALMA51635307780001701>

    The Future of Food -- Wikipedia

    The Future of Food

     

     



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

     Darwin's nightmare video


    ~
    For Week's Activities see Canvas

    These include items like Discussion (Forum) postings on timely issues, video evaluation feedback, Live Chats (for exam prep and project information), making up exam questions, Project information (on term Presentation and Term Paper), and (from time to time) other activities.
    ~
    s2024 Wk 16 The LIVE CHAT for the Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
    s2024 Wk 16 The Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, 29 April 2024, until 11:59 p.m., Friday, 3 May 2024.
    NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 5-15, so be sure not to miss watching them.

    Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afvideo_schedule.html#week06>
    ~
    s2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 3 May 2024.

    su2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 26 July 2024.

    ~
    Week 15 For Fun: Food Trivia
    ~

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

    Still Life with Anchovies, 1972, Antonio Sicurezza

    Still Life with Anchovies, 1972
      Antonio Sicurezza

     Wikipedia

    Answer

    ~
    © 2011-2014 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
    ~

    ~

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      S M T W T F S
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      S M T W T F S
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    links to current weeks
    holidays and breaks
    to textbook
    final exams
     

    top of pageA-Z index  
    Canvas 
    TR HomePage
    s2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 3 May 2024.

    su2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 26 July 2024.

     
    Week 16

    Final Exam Week

    envelope
    Week 16 Memo


    End of Term Memo
    ~
    ~
    s2024 Wk 16 The LIVE CHAT for the Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
    s2024 Wk 16 The Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, 29 April 2024, until 11:59 p.m., Friday, 3 May 2024.
    NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 5-15, so be sure not to miss watching them.

    Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afvideo_schedule.html#week06>
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    Week 16 Reading Assignment



    Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food



    Omnivore's Dilemma text.



    The Language of Food
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    s2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 3 May 2024.

    su2024 Final Evaluation due on-line by the last day of the term, Friday, 26 July 2024.

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    Week 16 For Fun: Food Trivia
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