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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
has the best gelato in the world"
-- Willie Henderson

Anthropology of Food

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Spring 2010 Calendar

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Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Eating a"grub worm"
Video: Desert People
Australia
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
First solid food, rice (isn't as handy as the original)
5 months old
Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Eating rat.
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Vietnam
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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

presentations schedule

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TEXTBOOKS


textbooks for the course
general textbook information


The Cultural Feast.
America's First Cuisines, Sophie D. Coe. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
Omnivore's Dilemma text.

 

The following chapters and articles are available on-line

 

"Farmer's salad."           Gossr bier, Austria.

 
January  2009
National Diet Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Prune Breakfast Month
National Soup Month
  Bread Machine Baking Month
National Egg Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Retail Bakers Month
  Wheat Bread Month
National Hot Tea Month
Oatmeal Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
        1 2 3

New Year's Day
Tom and Jerrys.
4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Dia de los Santos Reyes

Mexican Food
Rosca de reyes bread.

Ashura
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
 
Dresden stollen.   French bread.    Challah.

 
January  2009
National Diet Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Prune Breakfast Month
National Soup Month
  Bread Machine Baking Month
National Egg Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Retail Bakers Month
  Wheat Bread Month
National Hot Tea Month
Oatmeal Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
18 19 20  Week 01
>> Day 01
21 22  Week 01
>> Day 02
23 24

 

 


The Cultural Feast.

Martin Luther
King Day

"soul food"

Anthropology of Food: Introduction
(slides)

Handout: "Syllabus for Spring 2009" (Calendar)

video clip: "Eating Rat at the New Year"
-- National Geographic News (ca. 3 min., 2008, on-line)

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

America's First Cuisines, Sophie D. Coe.
Aztec Feast


Major Characteristics of Anthropology

(slides)
Anthropology of Food: Orientation
(slides)

FAQs

Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 1-3: New World Foods


Eating Gelato in Italy.
Eating gelato
Palermo,
Sicily, Italy

25 26 27  Week 02
>> Day 03
28 29  Week 02
>> Day 04
30 31

Nutrition label.

at the Burns Supper
(Scotland
)
they're offering the Selkirk Grace toasting the haggis
("Ode to the Haggis")


Australia Day -- Australian Food


Chinese New Year
(Spring Festival)
(year 4706)
(牛 Ox) -- Chinese Food

Bowl of rice.

"Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast":
Introduction
(slides)

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

Old USDA food pyramid.

New USDA food pyramid.

"Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Nutritional Anthropology
and
Basic Human Nutritional Needs
(cont.)
(slides)

Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 4-6: The Aztecs

Tehuacan maize.
Prehistoric Maize
Tehuacán
, Mexico


 
February  2009
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Mont
h
  Berry Fresh in the Sunshine State Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Chocolate Lover's Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
  Great American Pies Month
North Carolina Sweet Potato Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Cherry Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3  Week 03
>> Day 05
4 5  Week 03
>> Day 06
6 7

Groundhog (woodchuck).

Assignment Review:
Case Study #1
Food and Archaeology

"Diet and Human Evolution"
(slides)

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 3, "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"
Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Ch. 15: "The forager"

50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death

Netsilik man hunting.
Hunting seal on the Spring Ice

Neandertal hunter.
Neandertal Hunter

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


"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies
"

video: "Patterns of Subsistence" –
Food Foragers and Pastoralists
"
and "Food Producers"
[From the Faces of Culture Series]
(60 min., 1994, VC 2466,
pts. 7 & 8)

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 5, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"
Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 7-11: The Maya


Nepal girl with yak_100.
Girl with baby yak
Nepal

Nepal girl with yak_100.
Yak milking
Tibet


The Food Archaeology Case Study is due by Friday, 12 February 2010
Michael Pollan
b. 1955

Neolithic grindstone for processing grain.
Neolithic grinding stone
Prehistoric Iberia

Spain | Portugal
8 9 10  Week 04
>> Day 07
11 12  Week 04
>> Day 08
13 14

 

Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Eating a "grub worm"
video: Desert People
Australia


"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"

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

(time permitting)
video selection: Netsilik Group hunting on the spring ice, Part III
(tba min, 1967, VC 3239)

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 6, "Food Technologies How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies"

Aztec statuary of a male figure holding a cacao pod.

Aztec Cacao Sculpture

Azted feast.
Aztec Feast

"Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"
(slides)

Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 12-15: The Inca

The Food Archaeology Case Study is due by Friday, 12 February 2010

Thomas Malthus.

 


Valentine's Day
heart throb
Send a card

Three hearts.

or better yet...

Chocolate-covered caterpillars.
video Eating Insects

Thomas R. Malthus
1766-1834, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) argued population grows geometrically, food supply arithmetically

Brussels sprout soup.

 
February  2009
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Mont
h
  Berry Fresh in the Sunshine State Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Chocolate Lover's Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
  Great American Pies Month
North Carolina Sweet Potato Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Cherry Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
15 16 17  Week 05
>> Day 09
18 19  Week 05
>> Day 10
20 21

 

Maize god.
Maize God
Temple 22
A.D. 680-750
Copán, Honduras


"Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"
(slides)
(cont.)

Handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico"
An Anth Food Paradigm: America's First Cuisines

"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies"
(intro.)
(time permitting)

Read: America's First Cuisines, Chs. 16-18: The Occupation / A Final Banquet / Finale

 

 

Picture from We Feed the World.
We Feed the World


"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies
"

video: We Feed the World
(96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330)
(beginning)

Review for Midterm Exam

 

 

Picture from We Feed the World.
We Feed the World


International Mother Language Day

22 23 24  Week 06
>> Day 11
25 26  Week 06
>> Day 12
27 28
 
National Eating Awareness Disorders Week -- UMD Events
National_Eating_Disorders_Association (NEDA)
23-27 February 2009
28 February - 6 March 2010
 

UMD National Eating Disorders Week Poster.

 

Picture from We Feed the World.
We Feed the World


Your midterm exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 22 February 2010


"Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies"

video: We Feed the World
(96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330)
(cont.)

Review for Midterm Exam

Mardi Gras
and on Shrove Tuesday, it's Pancake Day in Great Britain


Pancakes.

Ash Wednesday:
Lenten Food Regulations begin for Roman Catholics and others

Fish and chips and mushy peas.
The Holy See
(The Vatican)


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Blue book for exams.


The Food and Bio-physical Case Study is due by Friday, 26 February 2010

Legumes a pot au feu. Baked potato with butter.      

Roast turkey.
 
March  2009
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
  National Flour Month
National Sauce Month
  National Noodle Month
National Frozen Food Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3  Week 07
>> Day 13
4 5  Week07
>> Day 14
6 7

 

Slow food, from The Meaning of Food.


Slow food, Thera, Greece.
Slow Food
video: Slow Food

 


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

The Meaning of Food Video.


Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food and Life

video: The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700)

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 4, "Eating is a Cultural Affair"

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

 

 

Slow Food logo.
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

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

[food holds Chinese culture together]

Read: Sweetness and Power, "Introduction" and Ch. 1: "Food, Sociality, and Sugar"

The Global Banquet: Politics of Food. Food for Body and Spirit
8 9 10  Week 08
>> Day 15
11 12  Week 08
>> Day 16
13 14

 

Pig Commandment pig.
The Pig Commandments


Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture

video: The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 200
5, DVD 1690)
(China)
(Malaysia)
(beginning)
(70 min?)

[food tears Chinese culture apart]

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

 

Shaikh Hussain Ye of Malaysia.
Shaikh Hussain Ye
Malaysia


Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture

video: The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 200
5, DVD 1690)
(China)
(Malaysia)
(cont.)
(70 min?)

Ketchup bottle.
catch up / review / preview

Read: Sweetness and Power, Ch. 2: "Production"

The Food and Bio-physical Case Study is due by Friday, 26 February 2010

The Food and Bio-physical Case Study is due by Friday, 26 February 2010

 
March  2009
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
  National Flour Month
National Sauce Month
  National Noodle Month
National Frozen Food Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Spring
break

Spring
break

Spring
break

Spring
break

Spring
break

Mr. Roger's
birthday

Birthday cake.

22 23 24  Week 09
>> Day 17
25 26  Week 09
>> Day 18
27 28

 

 

The Meaning of Food Video.


Chicken Pelau for Ramadan.
Lamb Pelau


Fannie Merritt Farmer, b. 1857

 


Eating Is a Cultural Affair – the American "Melting pot"

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

Read: Sweetness and Power, Ch. 3: "Consumption"

 

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


Food and Social Change – Two Fat Ladies
(and friends):
Sherrie A. Inness, Secret Ingredients
(Intro.)
(slides)

Two Fat Ladies
"Timber!"
Series 4 Episode 23
(30 min., 2008, DVD 1698)

Two Fat Ladies DVD, complete series.

Read: Sweetness and Power, Ch. 4: "Power"

29 30 31  Week 10
>> Day 19
       

 

"Starvation_2008_06"
"Starvation_2008_06"

Food and Social Change – Two Fat Ladies
(and friends):
Sherrie A. Inness, Secret Ingredients
(cont.)
(slides)

Food and Social Change – Food related problems:
Obesity,
Anorexia nervosa
,
Bulimia
. . .
(slides)
Sweetness and Power: America to Britain and Europe and 2009
Read: Sweetness and Power, Ch. 5: "Eating and Being"

 

 

Dying to be thin.
"
Dying to be thin"

 

 

 

 

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

 
April  2009
National Garden Month
National Soyfoods Month
  Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
Fresh Florida Tomato Month
  National Food Month
National Pecan Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
      1 2  Week 10
>> Day 20
3 4

Omnivore's Dilemma text.


Sweetness and Power: America to Britain and Europe and 2009

Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 1-4: Intro. to The feedlot: making meat
5 6 7  Week 11
>> Day 21
8 9  Week 11
>> Day 22
10 11

 

Tim Roufs at the White Palace Grill, Chicago.
Chicago, U.S.A.

 

The Meaning of Food Video.


Focus: Food and Social Organization – Food and Family

video: The Meaning of Food: "Food & Family"
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700)

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organizations"


The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food.


Global Food Issues

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

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 9

Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 5-7: "The processing plant" to "The meal: fast food"

Global Banquet.
The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food
Roquefort.     Chedder cheese. Gouda cheese.    Gloucester.
   
 
April  2009
National Garden Month
National Soyfoods Month
  Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month
Fresh Florida Tomato Month
  National Food Month
National Pecan Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
12 13 14  Week 12
>> Day 23
15 16  Week 12
>> Day 24
17 18

Moroccan Diffa
(feast)
menu
5:00 p.m.
1006 Mississippi Ave.
N 046° 48.965
W 092° 05.550
Alt. 1,484 ft.
(map)

Moroccan couscous.
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" Moroccan tajine.
Morocan Tajine

Read: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"

Rainbow smelt.
smelt

Nordic Neolithic fishhook.

Nordic Neolithic


Local and Regional foods and food issues

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

Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 8-10: "All flesh is grass" to "Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture"

Case Study #3 is due by Friday, 16 April 2010
19 20 21  Week 13
>> Day 25
22 23  Week 13
>> Day 26
24 25

Eastern
Easter

Ukranian Easter egg.
Ukrainian Easter egg

Hachez chocolate bar, 88%.

Lindt chocolate bar, 99%.
chocolate


Focus: Food and Economic and Political Alliances

The EU
Chocolate Wars:
A run-up to scaling
(slides)
The Coca Cola War
(Sidney Mintz)

Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 11-14: The animals: practicing complexity to The meal: grass-fed
Yukon Gold potato.
Earth Day
[Geophagists'
holiday
??]

Go Organic!
for Earth Day

Administrative Professionals' Day
(fka Secretary's Day)

Russell Stover chocolates.
Pierre Auguste Renoir,  Le dejeuner, 1879.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Le dejeuner, 1879

Student
Presentations I

Review: The Cultural Feast, Ch. 5: Foraging

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
Question: What trees do we eat?

Cinnamon

Cinnamon

?


it's the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist
in Venice and they're eating risi bisi
26 27 28  Week 14
>> Day 27
29 30  Week 14
>> Day 28
   

Student
Presentations II

Read: Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 18-20: "Hunting: the meat" to "The perfect meal"

Student
Presentations III

Catch up, and start reviewing for Final Exam

Extra Credit Case Study is due by Friday, 3 July 2009

Your final exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 3 May, 2010
Dry fruits.
 
May  2009
National Strawberry Month
National Chocolate Custard Month
National Hamburger Month
  National Salad Month
National Barbecue Month
National Egg Month
  National Artisan Gelato Month
National Asparagus Month
National Salsa Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
          1 2
         

Extra Credit Case Study is due by Friday, 3 July 2009

Your final exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 3 May, 2010
 
3 4 5  Week 15
>> Day 29
6 7  Week 15
>> Day 30
8 9



Student
Presentations IV

Cinco De Mayo Mexican Food
Taco.

Review for Final Exam

 

Eating rat, Vietnam.
"Eating Rat at the New Year"
Vietnam


"Extreme Cuisine"

National Geographic Film Clips and related dishes

Course Evaluation

Summary / Review

Review for Final Exam


Durian.
Durian
video: Durian

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Obento Japanese lunch, "Mom"

 

Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.

 

Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.

 

Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.

 

Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.


The final AFforum evaluation is due by Friday, 2 July 2009

 

Starbuck's coffee.
The Anthropology of Food final exam will be on Thursday, 2 July 2009


WebDrop


St. Honoratus of Amiens – French Food

eGradebook

Getting your other grades


Sheet cake.
 
May  2009
National Strawberry Month
National Chocolate Custard Month
National Hamburger Month
  National Salad Month
National Barbecue Month
National Egg Month
  National Artisan Gelato Month
National Asparagus Month
National Salsa Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
17 18 19 20 21 22 23

May session
classes begin
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Memorial Day – American Food
Hot dog.
31            
             



Apple pie and ice cream.

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University of Minnesota Duluth Student Academic Integrity Policy
Office of Student Behavior > UMD Student Academic Integrity Office
<www.d.umn.edu/assl/conduct/integrity>

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

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