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"Palermo, Sicily, Italy has the best gelato in the world" -- Willie Henderson |
On-Line Resources
World Clock Time World Clock Events |
![]() Eating a"grub worm" Video: Desert People Australia |
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![]() A Fistfull of Rice Nepal |
Claire Kathleen Roufs First solid food, rice (isn't as handy as the original) 5 months old Duluth, MN, U.S.A. |
![]() Video: "Eating Rat At The New Year" Vietnam View Other National Geographic Film Clips |
Spring Semester 2009 Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food 91145 -001 LEC, 02:00 P.M. - 03:15 P.M., Tu,Th (01/20/2009 - 05/08/2009), Cina 214, Roufs,Tim, 3 credits
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Dia de los Santos Reyes Mexican Food
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Anthropology of Food: Introduction (slides) Handout: "Syllabus for Spring 2009" (Calendar) -- National Geographic News (ca. 3 min., 2008, on-line) |
Major Characteristics of Anthropology Anthropology of Food: Orientation (slides) |
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![]() at the Burns Supper (Scotland) they're offering the Selkirk Grace toasting the haggis ("Ode to the Haggis") |
(Spring Festival) (year 4706) (牛 Ox) -- Chinese Food
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"Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Introduction |
and Basic Human Nutritional Needs (cont.) |
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Assignment Review: Case Study #1 Food and Archaeology Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Ch. 15: "The forager" |
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"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies" Food Foragers and Pastoralists" and "Food Producers" [From the Faces of Culture Series] (60 min., 1994, VC 2466, pts. 7 & 8) Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 7-11: The Maya |
Michael Pollan b. 1955 |
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Neolithic grinding stone Prehistoric Iberia Spain | Portugal |
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"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies" (51 min., 1965, VC 1094) video selection: Netsilik Group hunting on the spring ice, Part III (tba min, 1967, VC 3239) |
![]() Aztec Cacao Sculpture
Aztec Feast |
The Food Archaeology Case Study is due by Friday, 12 February 2010
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Valentine's Day
1766-1834, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) argued population grows geometrically, food supply arithmetically |
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"Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions" (cont.) Handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico" An Anth Food Paradigm: America's First Cuisines (intro.) (time permitting) |
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"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies" video: We Feed the World (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330) (beginning) |
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National_Eating_Disorders_Association (NEDA) 23-27 February 2009 28 February - 6 March 2010 |
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s2012 Your midterm exam submitted question is due to the Moodle wiki by Friday, 17 February 2012, 11:55 p.m. |
"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies" video: We Feed the World (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330) and on Shrove Tuesday, it's Pancake Day in Great Britain |
Ash Wednesday: Lenten Food Regulations begin for Roman Catholics and others
The Holy See (The Vatican) |
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Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food and Life (ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700) Have a look at "Take it Slow" from Marcus Samuelsson's The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life" |
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Mary Dragich of Slow Food Lake Superior "Take it Slow" from Marcus Samuelsson's The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life" Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food for Body and Spirit (29 min., 1984, VC 714) (China) [food holds Chinese culture together] |
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USA Daylight Savings Time – 1 hr. ahead |
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Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690) (China) (Malaysia) (beginning) (70 min?) [food tears Chinese culture apart] |
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Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690) (China) (Malaysia) (cont.) (70 min?) ![]() |
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Fannie Merritt Farmer, b. 1857
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Eating Is a Cultural Affair – the American "Melting pot"
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Food and Social Change -- Introducing Sherrie Inness, the Two Fat Ladies, and Friends: Sherrie A. Inness, Secret Ingredients (Intro.)
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Focus: Food and Social Organization – Food and Family (ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700) |
Global Food Issues video: The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food (50 min., 2001, VC 4770) |
The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food |
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Mediterranean Diffa (feast) —menu— 5:00 p.m. 1006 Mississippi Ave. N 046° 48.965 W 092° 05.550 Alt. 1,484 ft. (map) ![]() Couscous Morocco |
Global Food Issues طعام شاملة رون [هإكستون], من المطبخ نافذة, [مبلس], وسابقة [بس كربس] عاملة في أثيوبيا, "السياسة الطعام" [تجين] مغربيّة. [موروكن] [تجين] Ron Haxton, of The Kitchen Window, Mpls, and former Peace Corps worker in Ethiopia, "The Politics of Food" ![]() Morocan Tajine |
Local and Regional foods and food issues Guest: Stuart Sivertson, President and CEO of Lake Superior Fish Co., est. 1892 |
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Eastern Easter
Ukrainian Easter egg |
Focus: Food and Economic and Political Alliances The EU Chocolate Wars: A run-up to scaling The Coca Cola War (Sidney Mintz) |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le dejeuner, 1879 |
Student Presentations I Re-read: Omnivore's Dilemma; Read: Ch. 15: "The forager" and Chs. 16-17: "The omnivore's dilemma," and "The ethics of eating animals" |
Arbor Day |
it's the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist in Venice and they're eating risi bisi |
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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? s2012 Week 14 Your final exam submitted question is due by Wednesday, 25 April 2012, 11:55 p.m. |
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Memorial Day – American Food
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