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Anthropology of Food


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
Video
Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Desert People
Australia

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f2f Anth 3888 Spring 2013
Anthropology of Food
University of Minnesota Duluth
64434 -001 LEC, 12:30 P.M. - 01:45 P.M., Tu,Th (01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013), Cina  214, 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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final exams
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First-Day Handout

Meet the Professor

Why food?

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


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

*****

Register Now

Class starts 22 January 2013
64434-001 12:30 P.M. - 01:45 P.M. (01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013), Roufs,Tim, 3 credits, Partially Online

Envelope: E-mail E-mail Tim Roufs for more information

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.


Office Hours

Summer 2013
e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu for appointment

Fall 2013
TTh 2:00-3:30
and by appointment
e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu

Envelope: E-mail
troufs@d.umn.edu
Skype logo. troufs
sms-textmessaging icon
SMS/textmessaging: 218.260.3032
Twitter logo. tweet:  troufs
URL
 www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/index.html

TEXTBOOKS

textbooks for the course
general textbook information

The Cultural Feast.

The Meaning of Food.


Omnivore's Dilemma text.
Carol A. Bryant, Kathleen M. DeWalt, Anita Courtney and Jeffrey Schwartz.
Patricia Harris, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin.
Michael Pollan.
The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society, 2nd Edition. The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Television Series Hosted by Marcus Samuelsson. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2003.
 432 pages
 ISBN-10: 0534525822
ISBN-13: 978-0534525828		 Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2005.
176 pages
ISBN-10: 1615609210
ISBN-13: 978-1615609215		 NY: Penguin, 2007.
464 pages
ISBN-10: 0143038583
ISBN-13: 978-0143038580
The course anchor text, The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society, 2nd Edition, is currently available online from about $44.50-$129.99 [this is correct--it pays to comparison shop!] new / $14.95 used, (+ p/h, and at amazon.com you get FREE Super Saver Shipping on some orders). (6 December 2012)

The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Television Series Hosted by Marcus Samuelsson. It is currently available online from about $9.18 new / $4.30 used. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). (6 December 2012)

This text is not available at the UMD Bookstore
The Omnivore's Dilemma is currently available online from about $11.56 new / $3.76 used. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). (6 December 2012)
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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Red Lake Fishermen, Patrick Des Jarlait, 1961 Indian Sugar Camp, Seth Eastman, ca. 1850
Red Lake Fishermen, Patrick Des Jarlait, 1961
Indian Sugar Camp, Seth Eastman, ca. 1850
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UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
January  2013
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
National Carrot Month
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
    1 2 3 4 5
   
New Year's Day

Tom and Jerrys.
many are eating lentils and other pulses today—for good luck in the New Year
In Texas they're going for black-eyed peas
and elsewhere it's
Vasilopita

     
Twelfth Night


Adoration of the Magi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th century (Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Adoration of the Magi
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
17th century
6 7 8 9 10 11 12


Dia de los Santos Reyes
Ephiphany
(Theophany)
(Woman's Christmas in Ireland)
Religion in Europe
Roman Catholocism in Europe
Christianity in Europe
Islam in Europe
Islamic holidays
Jewish holidays
Buddhism in Europe
Neopaganism in Latin Europe
Religion in the European Union

Mexican Food
Rosca de reyes bread.

Woman's Little Christmas
Ireland . . .


Plough Monday
England
         
13 14 15 16 17 18 19

St. Knut's Day


Coming of Age Day
Japan

         
20 21 22
  Week 1 Day 01
23 24
  Week 1 Day 02
25 26
 
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day

"soul food"

 
  National Pie Day

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

 




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Week 1—Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course

envelope
 f2f Welcome Memo
  f2f Week 1 Memo

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)" pptx icon.jpg, 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

f2f First-Day Handout
(syllabus)
 
Meet Your Professor
(WebPage)
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
 
Introduction
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
 
handout: Anthropology and Its Parts
~
Orientation
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
~
  • Main Characteristics of Anthropology
    slides:     (.pdf) (.pptx)
    (Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
    [see note on slide formats]

    (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

    • the four fields of general anthropology
    • culture as a primary concept
    • comparative method as major approach
    • holism as a primary theoretical goal
    • fieldwork as a primary research technique
WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

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Finding Information on Food of Different Countries and Cultures
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
For Week 1 Activities see Moodle

Week 1 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast.
~

For Fun

Food Trivia

What is longest word ever to appear in all of literature?
For Week 1 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
January-February  2013
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
National Carrot Month
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 28 29
  Week 2 Day 03
30 31
  Week 2 Day 04
1 2

 

 

           
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Greetings from Punxsutawney!


 Punxsutawney Phil predicted early spring in 2013

22 March 2013 BULLETIN:

Punxsutawney Phil
 Wikipedia

On Groundhog Day 2013: Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, early spring predicted

Phil's official forecast as predicted February 2nd at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob

  Groundhog.org

 Past predictions

Punxsutawney Phil: The Groundhog Behind the Myth
-- Live Science (01 February 2010)

Groundhog Day -- Wikipedia

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

envelope
  On-Line Week 2 Memo
 f2f Week 2 Memo
Ch. 1, "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast"
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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
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Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition

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

Figure 1.1 Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition

Nutrition Labels
~

Food Systems
(.pdf) (.pptx)

~

Next Steps
(.pdf) (.pptx)

For Week 2 Activities see Moodle
~
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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  • Main Characteristics of Anthropology
    slides:     (.pdf) (.pptx)
    (Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
    [see note on slide formats]

    (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

    • the four fields of general anthropology
    • culture as a primary concept
    • comparative method as major approach
    • holism as a primary theoretical goal
    • fieldwork as a primary research technique
WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

~

The Cultural Feast

Week 2 Reading Assignment

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

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

The Cultural Feast.

Neolithic grindstone for processing grain.

Neolithic grinding stone
Prehistoric Iberia
Spain | Portugal

Tehuacan maize.

 

MyPlate
New USDA food pyramid.
Old USDA food pyramid.

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

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

~

For Fun

Food Trivia

The human brain encodes what three factors in processing nouns?
For Week 2 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~

UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
February 2013
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Month		 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

Ernestine Friedl. Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece.
Vasilika,
Greece







       
Groundhog (woodchuck).
Groundhog Day / Candlemas
groundhog recipes
Woodchuck au Vin

3 4 5
  Week 3 Day 05
6 7
  Week 3 Day 06
8 9

Setsubun 節分
bean-throwing festival
Japan

54nd anniversary of Buddy Holly's death

Buffalo wings.
Super Bowl XLVII

   
Michael Pollan
b. 1955

Sami National Day

   
Bread baking in a Cypress village
Breadbaking
Cyprus

Mark Kurlansky. Cod: A biography of the Fish That Changed the World.

f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food
Week 3—Back to Prehistoric Times
Ch. 2—"Diet and Human Evolution":
Archeology / Prehistory of Food and Subsistence

envelope
    On-line Week 3 Memo
 f2f Week 3 Memo
Ch. 2, "Diet and Human Evolution"
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~
video:
in-class Week 3 Day 5, Tuesday 5 February 2013
Did Cooking Make Us Human?
(52 min., 2010, New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group)

 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 online access

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

    (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

    • the four fields of general anthropology
    • culture as a primary concept
    • comparative method as major approach
    • holism as a primary theoretical goal
    • fieldwork as a primary research technique
WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

For Week 3 Activities see Moodle
Week 3 Reading Assignment

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

Archeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico

Food Guide Pyramid -- Wikipedia

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

The Cultural Feast.
~

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

Your class project is your term paper, plus a short presentation on your term paper research
For Week 3 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
February 2013
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Month		 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
10 11 12
  Week 4 Day 07
13 14
  Week 4 Day 08
15 16

Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)
(year 4711)
蛇 Shé Snake -- Chinese Food
Bowl of rice.


Oatmeal Monday
Scotland


Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Darwin Day

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)


Valentine's Day
heart throb

Send a Valentine card

Three hearts.

or better yet . . .

Chocolate-covered caterpillars.
video Eating Insects

In Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan girls are giving "chocolate of love" and "obligation chocolate"

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

Thomas Malthus.


Spanish Bullfight
Spain

Portugeese Bullfighting
Portugual


Europa and the Bull.
Europa and the Bull
Gustave Moreau
c.1869


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Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion





It's Mardi Gras
and Carnival . . .
[that's carne-val from the Latin carnem levāre, "to put away meat"]

 Lady in White, Venice Carnival.
 Lady in White
 Carnival of Venice
 Italy

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

Pancakes.

Why are the Protestants Eating Pancakes Today?

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

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


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

envelope
  Online Week 4 Memo
 f2f Week 4 Memo
  Valentine's Day 2013
handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico"

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

video:
in-class Week 4 Day 7 Tuesday12 February 2013
Holy Cow
(60 min., 2004, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF195 .H65 2004 DVD)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

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

or view on-line at Nature WebSite
Nature

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

Archeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico

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

MyPlate
New USDA food pyramid.
Old USDA food pyramid.

For Week 4 Activities see Moodle

Week 4 Reading Assignment

 The Cultural Feast.

  • The Meaning of Food, pp. 60-82


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

 The Meaning of Food book.

 Marcus Samuelsson
 

For Fun

Food Trivia

Week 4
In what region of Italy
do Italians traditionally eat
spaghetti with meatballs?

Spaghetti with meatballs

answer
For Week 4 Activities see Moodle
-
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved

UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
February 2013
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Month		 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
17 18 19
  Week 5 Day 09
20 21
  Week 5 Day 10
22 23
       
International Mother Language Day
Map of languages in Europe.
Languages in Europe

 
...and metaphor...

Spanish Bullfight
Romantic Love:
Tristan and Isolde

Front Cover of Nan: The Life of an Irish Traveling Woman, Revised Edition.
Ernestine Friedl. Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece.
John Messenger. Innis Beag: Isle of Ireland.
Elizabeth L. Krause. A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy.
Mark Kurlansky. Cod: A biography of the Fish That Changed the World.
Parman text: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination.
Hachez chocolate bar, 88%.
 


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

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

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

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)
 
su2013 Midterm Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due to the Moodle logo. wiki by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

You can review the questions and my notations there, and use them as study questions
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Week 5—"Eating Is a Cultural Affair"

envelope

 Online Week 5 Memo
  f2f Week 5 Memo

Ch. 4, Eating is a Cultural Affair

The Cultural Feast.

This week . . .

  1. read the Week 5 Memo
  2. have a look at the video and video clips
  3. read the assigned readings
  4. peruse the two 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 this week

Ketchup
catch up / review / preview
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f2f Week 5 Day 9, Tuesday, 19 February 2013
video:

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 streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

The Meaning of Food book.

~

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


Eating rat, Vietnam.

"Eating Rat at the New Year"
Vietnam

 

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

peruse:
"Extreme Cuisine"

Entomophagy WebPage
(optional resource)

Durian.

Durian

video: Durian

 
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peruse:
Anthropophagy
See this week's Forums
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Notes:
Review for the Midterm Exam Week 6
For Week 5 Activities see Moodle
 

Week 5 Reading Assignment

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

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

    • The Cultural Feast.

 

  • 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.

  • The Meaning of Food, pp. 83-105

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

The Meaning of Food book.

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

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

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

A more formal statement (Abstract) of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks.)
 
su2013 Midterm Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
due to the Moodle logo. wiki by the end of Week 5, Friday, 21 June 2013, 11:55 p.m.

You can review the questions and my notations there, and use them as study questions
 
For Week 5 Activities see Moodle
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February-March 2013
National Sweet Potato Month
National Canned Food Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Snack Food Month		 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
24 25 26
  Week 6 Day 11
27 28
  Week 6 Day 12
1 2



 
John Harvey Kellogg
Vintage Kellog's Corn Flakes Ad

       

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24 February - 2 March 2013
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week -- sponsored by the National_Eating_Disorders_Association (NEDA)
UMD Events

Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week

UMD National Eating Disorders Week Poster.

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

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 Online Week 6 Memo
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Online Memo: Wiki Study Questions / Live Chat / Midterm Exam

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


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

Indians harvesting wild rice near Brainerd.
 Photograph Collection, Postcard, 1905
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
 Location No. E97.32W r9 Negative No. 38616
"Foraging"
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f2f Week 6 Day 11, Tuesday, 26 February 2013
nlt 11:19 video:

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

course viewing guide

view online
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:

"Diet and Human Evolution"
(review)

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

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

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

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"Horticulture"
 Horticulture WebPage (optional resources)
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"Pastoralism"

Pastoralism WebPage (optional resources)
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"Intensive Agriculture"

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Contemporary Peasant Societies
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Where Do Cuisines Come From?
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Review "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"

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On-Line
Midterm Exam

 

REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop

On-line

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

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


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

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


f2f

The Live Chat for the f2f Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. Sign in on Moodle logo. in the Week 6 Panel.

Week 6: The Anthropology of Food f2f Midterm Exam will be in class, Thursday, 10 October 2013, 12:30-1:45

REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop
Firefox
Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

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


Complete information on the Midterm exam is available at
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_midterm.html#title>
For Week 6 Activities see Moodle

Week 6 Reading Assignment for discussion Weeks 7 ff.

The Cultural Feast

The Cultural Feast.

Omnivore's Dilemma

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

Omnivore's Dilemma text.

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

Chapter 5 of The Cultural Feast, focuses on "Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrial Societies."
For Week 6 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
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March  2013
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

Map of the United Kingdom.

Map of Ireland.

   
Illustration from The Aran Islands by John M. Synge, 1907.
The Aran Islands

 
St. David's Day
Wales
for the festival . . .
Caerphilly cheese
Welsh rarebit
Welsh Cakes

Beer Day
Iceland

National Pig Day


Ireland metaphor: Conversations.
Irish conversation
Ireland

Tim Roufs walking on Innis Oirr, Aran Islands, Ireland.
Inish Óirr
Ireland

Tim Roufs walking on Innis Oirr, Aran Islands, Ireland.
Currach,
Inish Óirr
Ireland

3 4 5
  Week 7 Day 13
6 7
  Week 7 Day 14
8 9

Celebrate Your Name Week

           

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

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

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

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

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Week 7

The Cultural Feast

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

Our Daily Bread has almost no dialogue.

From one reviewer: It's "The 2001: A Space Odyssey of modern food production." -- The Nation
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video--International Focus:
f2f Week 7 Day 13, Tuesday 5 March 2013

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 streaming videos are not available outside of Moodle)

Our Daily Bread-- Wikipedia

also available from Goodle Videos

Our Daily Bread film poster.
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video--International Focus:
f2f Week 7 Day 14, Thursday 7 March 2013

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

film HomePage
course viewing guide


view streaming video

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

We feed the world -- Google Videos

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 7 Activities see Moodle

Week 7 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast

The Cultural Feast.

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.
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For Fun

Food Trivia

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

Food Trivia

What was the average consumption of potatoes per person in Ireland before the great potato famine of 1845?
 
su2013 Project formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points)
due by the end of Week 7, Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:55 p.m. (submit them together)
For Week 7 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
March  2013
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
10 11 12
  Week 8 Day 15
13 14
  Week 8 Day 16
15 16

USA Daylight Savings Time – 1 hr. ahead

     
National Pi Day

White Day in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan, and males who received "chocolate of love" on Valentines Day return the gift


Hōnen Matsuri
Japan


St. Urho
b. 1956
[have some grasshopper cookies today with your Kalamojakka]

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Gary Paul Nabhan
b.1952

St. Patrick's Day
Roman Catholic fasting and abstinance food laws indult in effect
(in some diocese and all of Ireland, except next in A.D. 2160)


Spring
break


Spring
break

Swallows return to San Juan Capistrano

San Giuseppe,
and in Sicily they're eating zeppola, and in Rome, Italy, they're eating Bignè di S. Giuseppe


Spring
break

Birthday cake.
Mr. Roger's
birthday

International Francophonie Day

Equinox

Spring equinox in Teotihuacán


Spring
break


Spring
break

World Water Day


National Corndog Day, U.S.A.


f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food

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

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  Online: Week 8 Memo
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Week 8 Day 15
f2f Guest Lecture
United States Focus:
Tuesday 12 March 2013

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
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on-line and f2f assignment

videos--United States Focus:

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

film homepage

Independent lens King Corn page

view streaming video

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

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

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

view streaming video
[the link will be added as soon as licensing has been finalized]

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

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

King Corn Movie Poster
  
King Corn Movie Poster
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video--United States Focus:
f2f Week 8 Day 16, Thursday 14 March 2013

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

Course Viewing Guide

view streaming video

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

Food Flight -- SnagFilms

Food Fight film.
For Week 8 Activities see Moodle

Week 8 Review Assignment

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

The Cultural Feast

 The Cultural Feast.
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Week 8 Reading Assignment for review during Weeks 9 ff.

The Cultural Feast

  • Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220

    • Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
      • Kinship and Family Alliances
      • Building Relationships with Neighbors and Friends
    • Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
      • Trade
      • Food as a Gift
      • Political Alliances
    • Food and Social Status
      • Food and Gender
      • Food and Socioeconomic Position
      • Food as a Symbol of Prestige
    • Food and the Life Cycle

 The Cultural Feast.

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-122

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

 The Meaning of Food book.
~

For Fun

Food Trivia

How big is a modern industrial fish trawler net compared to the UMD Administration Building?
For Week 8 Activities see Moodle
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UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
March  2013
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
24 25 26
  Week 9 Day 17
27 28
  Week 9 Day 18
29 30
 
Lady Day



       
Belgian Lace Worker
Belgian Lace Worker



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Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion

f2f class Week 09 Day 17
 Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Guests:
Jamie Zak
Healthy Food School Coordinator
  Duluth Community Garden Program

 Jahn Hibbs
  Duluth Community Garden Program

Duluth Community Garden Program



 Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association

Lake Superior Sustainable Agriculture Association

 Sustainable Agriculture Class WebSite

 Locavore Class WebPage

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

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  f2f Week 9 Memo
Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"
 

Week 8 Reading Assignment for review Weeks 9 ff.

The Cultural Feast

  • Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220

    • Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
      • Kinship and Family Alliances
      • Building Relationships with Neighbors and Friends
    • Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
      • Trade
      • Food as a Gift
      • Political Alliances
    • Food and Social Status
      • Food and Gender
      • Food and Socioeconomic Position
      • Food as a Symbol of Prestige
    • Food and the Life Cycle

The Cultural Feast.

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-157

The Meaning of Food book.
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video:
in-class Week 9 Day 18, Thursday 28 March 2013

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

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

view streaming video

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

Tim Roufs at the White Palace Grill, Chicago.

Chicago, U.S.A.

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

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

Also have a look at . . .

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

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

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Week 8 Reading Assignment for review Weeks 9 ff.

The Cultural Feast

  • Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization," pp. 190-220

    • Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
      • Kinship and Family Alliances
      • Building Relationships with Neighbors and Friends
    • Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
      • Trade
      • Food as a Gift
      • Political Alliances
    • Food and Social Status
      • Food and Gender
      • Food and Socioeconomic Position
      • Food as a Symbol of Prestige
    • Food and the Life Cycle

The Cultural Feast.

The Meaning of Food, pp. 106-157

The Meaning of Food book.
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View slides . . .

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

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

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

Sherri Inness, Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
For Week 9 Activities see Moodle

Week 9 Reading Assignment

  • The Meaning of Food, pp. 123-157

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

The Meaning of Food book.

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

MyPlate
New USDA food pyramid.
Old USDA food pyramid.

The Cultural Feast.
~

For Fun

Food Trivia

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

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

Mrs. John Mink collecting maple sap, Mille Lacs.
Creator: Kenneth M. Wright Studios
Photograph Collection, 1925
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
 Location No. E97.32M p12 Negative No. 5000-A
For Week 9 Activities see Moodle
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University of Minnesota Duluth
 
March - April  2013
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
31 1 2
  Week 10 Day 19
3 4
  Week 10 Day 20
5 6

European Summer Time

British Summer Time

(all countries of Europe except Iceland observe daylight savings time, and most start on the last Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in October)

Western
Easter

Ham.

Send a card
       
Cold Food Festival
China

 

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Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion

f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food

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

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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"

~


f2f Week 10 Day 19, Thursday 2 April 2013

This week we meet . . .

Two Fat Ladies
"Timber!"
 Series 4 Episode 23
(30 min., 2008, UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX717 .T86 2008 DVD)
film HomePage
course viewing guide

view streaming video

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

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 Assignment:

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

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

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

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti

 
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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 (.pdf) (.pptx)

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

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

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

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

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

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f2f Week 10 Day 20, Thursday 4 April 2013

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

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
For Week 10 Activities see Moodle

Video Assignment:

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

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

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

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti
 

Week 10 Reading Assignment

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

The Meaning of Food book.

  • 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.
~

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 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
For Week 10 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
April  2013
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
7 8 9
  Week 11 Day 21
10 11
  Week 11 Day 22
12 13
 
International Day of the Roma


Europe Day -- EU

 
Szent István király, King Stephen I of Hungary.
Szent István király
Hungary

 
Hachez chocolate bar, 88%.

Lint '99' chocolate bar. "


~

f2f class Week 11 Day 21
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Guest:
Randy Hanson

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

Randy Hanson

"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
 Thursday, 1 April 2013
 Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association

 Sustainable Agriculture Class WebSite
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Moodle

f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food

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

envelope
  On-line: Week 11 Memo
  f2f: Week 11 Memo
review
The Cultural Feast

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

The Cultural Feast.

~

A comparative look . . .

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

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

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

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

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

video:
f2f Week 11 Day 21, Tuesday 9 April 2013
Food for Body and Spirit
 (29 min., 1984, VC 714)
film HomePage
course viewing guide


view streaming video

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

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

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

Food for Body and Spirit.
~

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

video:
f2f Week 11 Day 22, Thursday 11 April 2013

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


view streaming video

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

Pig Commandment pig.
The Pig Commandments

Shaikh Hussain Ye of Malaysia.
Shaikh Hussain Ye
Malaysia


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

肉

肉

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

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

Book image.

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

Book image.

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see
Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 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).
~
For Week 11 Activities see Moodle

Week 11 Reading Assignment

  • The Meaning of Food, pp. 33-59

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

The Meaning of Food book.

The Cultural Feast.
For Week 11 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
April  2013
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
14 15 16
  Week 12 Day 23
17 18
  Week 12 Day 24
19 20

Black Day,
and in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan single people are eating jajangmyeon


John Millington Synge
1871-190

         

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Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion

~


Student Presentations I
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Week 13 Day 25

su2013 on-line section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle logo. by the end of Week 12, Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

f2013 f2f section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle by the day you give your presentation in class

f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food

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

envelope

  on-line Week 12 Memo
  f2f Week 12 Memo
The Cultural Feast
Ch. 9, "Hunger in Global Perspective"

  • Food Sufficiency
  • Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution
  • Food Aid and Trade
  • Hunger and Malnutrition
  • Obesity Revisited
  • Projections for the Future

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

  • Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited
  • Adequate Nutrition
  • Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers
  • Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security
  • Entitlements
  • Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household
  • Distribution
  • Health and Sanitation

The Cultural Feast.


~

video:
f2f Week 12 Day 23, Tuesday 16 April 2013

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


view streaming video

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

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.
~

video:
f2f Week 12 Day 24, Thursday 18 April 2013

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
film HomePage
course viewing guide


view streaming video

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

The End of the Line -- Wikipedia

End of the Line film poster
~

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

Darwin's nightmare video
~

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

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

view video on-line

Bina Agarwal

For Week 12 Activities see Moodle

Week 12 Reading Assignment

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

  • Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited
  • Adequate Nutrition
  • Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers
  • Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security
  • Entitlements
  • Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household
  • Distribution
  • Health and Sanitation

The Cultural Feast.

  • Highlight: Women: A Pivotal Link in the Food Chain

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

Non-Reading Assignment:

  • The Cultural Feast, Ch. 11, "Dietary Behavior Change: How People Change Eating Habits"

    • Ch. 11 is not assigned reading, but as with Chapter 12, if you expect to go into or be a part of any program or company involved in dietary behavior change (including advertising and marketing), it would be a good idea to read this chapter. Materials from this chapter may also be used as the make-up-your-own final exam question.

The Cultural Feast.
~

Non-Reading Assignment:

  • The Cultural Feast, Ch. 12, "Designing Large-Scale Programs to Change Dietary Practices"

    • Ch. 12 is not assigned reading, but as with Chapter 11, if you expect to go into or be a part of any large-scale program or company involved in dietary behavior change (including advertising and marketing), it would be a good idea to read this chapter. Materials from this chapter may also be used as the make-up-your-own final exam question.

The Cultural Feast.

 

su2013 on-line section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle logo. by the end of Week 12, Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

f2013 f2f section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle by the day you give your presentation in class
~

For Fun

Food Trivia

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

Willie Nelson

answer
For Week 12 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
April  2013
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
21 22 23
  Week 13 Day 25
24 25
  Week 13 Day 26
26 27
 
Yukon Gold potato.
International Mother Earth Day
[Geophagists'
holiday??]

National Jellybean Day

 
Administrative Professionals' Day
(fka Secretary's Day)

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


it's the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist,
in Venice and they're eating risi bisi

DNA day


Arbor Day
Question: What trees do we eat?

Cinnamon
?

Cinnamon


Ely Eel Day
England

Alice Waters
Chez Panisse
"Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way."

~


Northland Community Wellness Day
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Romano Gym. 11am-3pm.

Join us for this family friendly wellness event in the Romano Gym. Personal health and wellness, public safety, financial wellness, and environmental health are the primary themes, with 50 community vendors presenting information and interactive opportunities for participants. Children’s games and activities with UMD Athletes will be part of the fun! Paul Batz will be speaking at 1pm in the Marshall Performing Arts Center about, “What Really Works: Blending the seven Fs for the life you imagine”. FREE and open to all! Parking is free on Saturdays in the pay lot nearby.
~

su2013 on-line section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle logo. by the end of Week 12, Friday, 9 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

f2013 f2f section:
Your Presentation is due on-line in Moodle by the day you give your presentation in class
 
Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

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

Food Politics, Marion Nestle.

envelope

  on-line Week 13 Memo
 f2f Week 13 Memo
f2f: Student Presentations I

see Moodle schedule for details

Week 13 Day 25, Tuesday 23 April 2013

f2f: Student Presentations II

seeMoodle schedule for details
Week 13 Day 26 Thursday, 25 April 2013
~

video:

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

view streaming video

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

FRESH poster.
~

video:

Food Inc.
(93 min., 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9005 .F66 2009 DVD)

film HomePage
course viewing guide


view streaming video

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

Picture from We Feed the World.


NOTE: If you have seen Food, Inc., please watch
American Meat (below) instead
Watch this if you have seen Food, Inc.

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

~
review:
The Cultural Feast
Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"
    • Food as a Means of Solidifying Social Ties
      • Kinship and Family Alliances
      • Building Relationships with Neighbors and Friends

    • Food as a Means of Strengthening Economic and Political Alliances
      • Trade
      • Food as a Gift
      • Political Alliances

    • Food and Social Status
      • Food and Gender
      • Food and Socioeconomic Position
      • Food as a Symbol of Prestige

    • Food and the Life Cycle

    The Cultural Feast.
~
For Week 13 Activities see Moodle

Week 13 Reading Assignment

  • 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 13 Assignment

Have a look at the other Students' Presentations
 
Ketchup
catch up / review / preview
For Week 13 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
April-May  2013
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
28 29 30
  Week 14 Day 27
1 2
  Week 14 Day 28
3 4



           

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~

Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion

~
su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
 due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.
 
su2013 Term Paper (up to 400 points)
is due by the end of Week 14, Friday, 23 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

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

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

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

Check Weeks 14 and 15 for qualifying videos of related topics

Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food On-Line

Week 14—Food Politics
Student Presentations
 Focus: International

envelope
  on-line: Week 14 Memo
On-line Week 14 REM Final Exam Question Wiki

  f2f: Week 14 Memo
f2f: Week 14 REM Final Exam Question Wiki
f2f: Student Presentations IV

seeMoodle schedule for details
Week 14 Day 28, Thursday 2 May 2013
~
~
review:
The Cultural Feast
Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"

  • Hunger and Malnutrition Revisited
  • Adequate Nutrition
  • Policy Options: Self-Sufficiency vs. Food Security of Small Farmers
  • Commercialization of Agriculture and Household Food Security
  • Entitlements
  • Nutritional Quality of Food, Education, and Household
  • Distribution
  • Health and Sanitation
  • Highlight: Women: A Pivotal Link in the Food Chain

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

video:

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

view streaming video

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

The Cove Poster
~

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

Cadbury
Chocolate bar 88%.
Cholate bar 99%.

chocolate
~

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 14 Activities see Moodle

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.
~
su2013 on-line Final Exam Submitted Question to Wiki
 due by by the end of Week 13, Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.
 
su2013 Term Paper (up to 400 points)
is due by the end of Week 14, Friday, 23 August 2013, 11:55 p.m.

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

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

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

Check Weeks 14 and 15 for qualifying videos of related topics
~
For Week 14 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
May  2013
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
5 6 7
  Week 15 Day 29
8 9
  Week 15 Day 30
10 11

Cinco De Mayo –
Mexican Food
Taco.

Eastern
Easter

Ukranian Easter egg.
Ukrainian Easter egg

Cristos Anesti!


International No Diet Day

         
12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Mother's Day --U.S,A.

Happy Mother's Day Card.


Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.
    
St. HOnoratus of Amiens.
St. Honoratus of Amiens – French Food


Week 16 ("Finals Week"): The f2f Anthropology of Food Final Exam is scheduled for 12:00-01:55 p.m., Friday, 17 May 2013, in Cina 214


REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop
Firefox
Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

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

Getting your other grades

UMD commencement Information

Sheet cake.

19 20 21 22 23 24 25
 
May session classes begin

         
26 27 28 29 30 31  





Memorial Day – American Food
Hot dog.

         

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~
Holidays Spring 2013
Week 4 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
Valentine's Day 		12 February 2013
13 February 2013
14 February 2013
Week 8 Pi Day 14 March
Week 9 Passover sunset of 25 March to nightfall of 1 Apriil / 2 April (7th day)
Week 10 Easter (Western) 31 March 2013
Week 12 Visakhi Festival (A Time for New Life) वैसाख 14 April 2013 (usually the 13th of April)
Week 15 Easter (Eastern) 5 May 2013
cf. Week 11—Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs
 Focus: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices: Religion

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

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?
 
s2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 16, Friday, 17 May 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.

su2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 15, Friday, 30 August 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.
f2f Anth 3888 Anthropology of Food

Week 15 — Wrapping it UP

Wrapping it up

Course Evaluation
 Student Presentations
 The Future of Food
Summary / Review

envelope
Online: Week 15 Memo
f2f: Week 15 Memo

Online: Week 16 Memo
f2f: Week 16 Memo

Online: End of Term Memo
f2f: End of Term Memo
Lady Justice (Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice).
f2f Course Evaluation

Anth 3888 - 001

Course Call # = 64434
Quarter = 5 Spring
Year = 13

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 Julie Viken, the system admin for the application, at jviken@d.umn.edu.

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

Please click on the link which will be provided

Thanks,

Tim Roufs

~
f2f: Student Presentations V

see Moodle schedule for details
Week 15 Day 30, Thursday 9 May 2013
~

video required:

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

 view on-line

The Future of Food -- Wikipedia

The Future of Food

 

video required:

 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

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

Final Exam

On-Line

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

Week 15 (Last Week of Class): The on-line Anthropology of Food Final Exam for su2013 will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 28-29 August 2013
Firefox
Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).


Face-to-Face

The Live Chat for f2f Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be on Thursday 16 May 2013, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Sign in on Moodle logo. in the Week 16 Panel.

Week 16 ("Finals Week"): The f2f Anthropology of Food Final Exam is scheduled for 12:00-01:55 p.m., Friday, 17 May 2013, in Cina 214


REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop
Firefox
Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

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

For Week 15 Activities see Moodle

Week 15 Reading Assignment

The Cultural Feast.
Omnivore's Dilemma text.
The Meaning of Food book.

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

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?
 
s2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 16, Friday, 17 May 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.

su2013 Final Evaluation
due on-line by the end of Week 15, Friday, 30 August 2013 December 2012, 11:55 p.m.
 
For Week 15 Activities see Moodle
© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
~
UMD  
University of Minnesota Duluth
 
May  2013
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
  Week 14 Day 28
3 4
             
5 6 7
  Week 15 Day 29
8 9
  Week 15 Day 30
10 11

Cinco De Mayo –
Mexican Food
Taco.

Eastern
Easter

Ukranian Easter egg.
Ukrainian Easter egg


International No Diet Day

         
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Mother's Day --U.S,A.

Happy Mother's Day Card.


Starbuck's coffee.
Pizza.
  


St. HOnoratus of Amiens.
St. Honoratus of Amiens – French Food


Week 16 ("Finals Week"): The f2f Anthropology of Food Final Exam is scheduled for 12:00-01:55 p.m., Friday, 17 May 2013, in Cina 214


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Laptop
Firefox
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Getting your other grades

UMD commencement Information

Sheet cake.

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May session classes begin

         
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Memorial Day – American Food
Hot dog.

         

© 2011-2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved

 

Dry fruits.

What can I do with a degree in Anthropology?
Credit Options at UMD

This course is governed by the . . .

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

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

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

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

and the

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

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

AVISO!

A Note on Extra Credit Papers

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

 

A Note on "Cutting and Pasting" without the Use of Quotation Marks
(EVEN IF you have a citation to the source somewhere in your paper)

If you use others' words and/or works you MUST so indicate that with the use of quotation marks. Failure to use quotation marks to indicate that the materials are not of your authorship constitutes plagiarism—even if you have a citation to the source elsewhere in your paper/work.

Patterned failure to so indicate that the materials are not of your own authorship will result in an F grade for the course.

Other instances of improper attribution will result in a 0 (zero) for the assignment (or a reduction in points equal to the value of an Extra Credit paper), and a reduction of one grade in the final grade of the course.

All incidents will be reported to the UMD Academic Integrity Officer in the Office of Student and Community Standards as is required by University Policy.

Students with disabilities:

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

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


Assignment Calculator available online from the UMD Library.

Paper is due to Moodle assigment area


Apple pie and ice cream.
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