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Anthropology of Food

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Class Slides
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Week 1 — Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course
Meet Your Professor
(WebPage)
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
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Introduction
(.pdf) (.pptx)
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Orientation
(.pdf) (.pptx)
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  • Main Characteristics of Anthropology
    slides:     (.pdf) (.pptx)
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    (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
Finding Information on Food of Different Countries and Cultures
(.pdf) (.pptx)
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Week 2 — "Setting the Table for a Cultural Feast"
 "Biocultural and Nutritional Needs"
Ch. 1, "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast":
Introduction
(slides)

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)

Food Systems
(.pdf) (.pptx)

Next Steps
(.pdf) (.pptx)

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Week 3 — "Diet and Human Evolution":
Archeology / Prehistory of Food and Subsistence
Ch. 2, "Diet and Human Evolution"
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Week 4 — "Food in Historical Perspectives: Dietary Revolution"
Ch. 3, "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"
(slides)
  • 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)
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Week 5 — "Eating Is a Cultural Affair"
Ch. 4, Eating is a Cultural Affair
(slides)

Extreme Cuisine
(slides)

  • Entomophagy WebPage (Optional Resource)
  • "Eating Rat at the New Year," National Geographic News (ca. 3 min., 2008, on-line)
    • Viewing Guide for "Eating Rat at New Year"
  • Other National Geographic Film Clips and Related Dishes (optional)
Anthropophagy
(slides)
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Week 6 — "Food Technologies:
How People get their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"
Ch. 5, Food Technologies: How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrial Societies:
Introduction
(slides)
"Foraging"
(slides)
"Horticulture"
(slides)
"Pastoralism"
(slides)
"Diet and Human Evolution"
"Intensive Agriculture"
(slides)
Contemporary Peasant Societies
(slides)
Where Do Cuisines Come From?
(slides)
Review "Food in Historical Perspective: Dietary Revolutions"
(slides)
 

Midterm Exam

f2f Week 6: The Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam time for s2013 will be in class, date to be announced

Week 6: The on-line su2012 The Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 20-21 June 2012
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Week 7 — "Food Technologies:
How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies" I
International Focus
Ch. 6, "Food Technologies—How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 157-172
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
  • Food Technologies: Food in Industrial Societies
  • Farm Size
  • Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
  • Energy Used in Food Production
  • Soil Erosion
  • Social Costs
  • Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
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Week 8 — "Food Technologies:
How People Get their Food in Industrialized Countries" 2
 United Stated Focus
Ch. 6, "Food Tecnologies—How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies," pp. 157-172
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
(continued)
  • Food Technologies: Food in Industrial Societies
  • Farm Size
  • Contract Farming / Vertical Integration
  • Energy Used in Food Production
  • Soil Erosion
  • Social Costs
  • Diet and Health of Industrialized Agriculturalists
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 Week 9 — "Food and Social Organization"
 Food & Family
Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"
(slides)

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 Meaning of Food pp. 106-157

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
and friends
Chs. 1-7

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

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 Week 10 — Physical Anthropology and Food
 Obesity, Anorexia. .
Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"
(slides)

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
and friends
Ch. 8

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

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)
World Hungar / Malnutrition (slides)
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 Week 11 — "Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs:
The Ideological Basis of Food Practices" 2
 Religion
Ch. 8, "Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs: The Ideological Basis of Food Practices"
(slides)
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Week 12 —

"Hunger in Global Perspective"

"Addressing Global Food Issues"
Ch. 9, "Hunger in Global Perspective"
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
  • Food Sufficiency
  • Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution
  • Food Aid and Trade
  • Hunger and Malnutrition
  • Obesity Revisited
  • Projections for the Future
 
Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
  • 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
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Week 13 — Food Politics
 Provincial / State and National
Ch. 7, "Food and Social Organization"
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
 
Ch. 10, "Addressing Global Food Issues"
(slides)
The Cultural Feast
  • 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
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Week 14 — Food Politics 2
International
Student Presentations
EU Chocolate Wars: A Run-up to Scaling
slides: .pptx
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 Week 15 —
Student Presentations
Summary / Review
Course Evaluation
The Future of Food

Final Exam

Week 16 ("Finals Week"): The f2f Anthropology of Food Final Exam time for s2013 will be announced, in Cina 214

Week 15 (Last Week of Class): The on-line Anthropology of Food Final Exam for su2012 will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 22-23 August 2012
 
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