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Video Schedule for Anthropology of Food On-Line

For full-length Feature Films see

Food Films
(.pdf version)
and
Food Film Term Project Information

Extra Credit Film Reviews must be of films not required as part of the course
See Food Films for lists of films qualifying for Extra Credit Reviews

Video materials used in class illustrate many topics covered in this course. Consider these presentations similar to lab sessions, that is, watch them carefully and critically rather than simply watch another movie or video. The exams will include these materials, and it will be assumed that you have paid critical attention to them.

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

Food Safety News Review at
<http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/09/american-meat-latest-film-to-join-food-debate/>

On Order for the UMD Library

PBS video:
Food for the Ancestors
(60 min., 2006, UMDMD GT4995.A4 F66 2006 DVD)
(Mexico)

       
Week 1 — Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course
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Week 2 — "Setting the Table for a Cultural Feast"
"Biocultural and Nutritional Needs"
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Week 3 — "Diet and Human Evolution":
Archeology / Prehistory of Food and Subsistence
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Holy Cow Video, Nature.
 
on-line
and streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF195 .H65 2004 DVD

video:
Holy Cow
Nature
View on-line at Nature WebSite
(60 min., 2004, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF195 .H65 2004 DVD)

viewing guide


Optional Activity:

  • film: The Nuer (75 min., 1970, VC 3236, parts. 1 and 2)

  • film: Himalayan Herders (75 min., 2002, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GN635.N425 B582 2004 DVD)
       
Week 4 — "Food in Historical Perspectives: Dietary Revolution"
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Week 5 — "Eating Is a Cultural Affair"
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The Meaning of Food Video. Marcus Samuelsson, host of The Meaning of Food and Executive Chef of Aquavit and Riingo.
Marcus Samuelsson, host
streaming
and
UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD

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

Episode 2: "Food & Culture"
explores how food delineates the different cultures that make up the American 'Melting pot'

   
on-line

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

"Eating Rat At The New Year"
-- National Geographic News (ca. 3 min., 2008, on-line)

   
on-line
video:
"Eating Bats in Thai Village"
-- National Geographic News (02:50, 2008, on-line)
     
video:
National Geographic Film Clips and related dishes
       
Week 6 — "Food Technologies:
How People get their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"
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Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Eating a"grub worm"
Desert People, boy eating lizzard.
Eating a lizard
Australia
VC 1094
video:
The Desert People
(51 min., 1965, VC 1094)
watch video on-line
viewing guide
     

Week 6: The on-line su2012 The Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available Wednesday-Thursday, 20-21 June 2012

       
Week 7 — "Food Technologies:
How People Get Their Food in Industrialized Societies" I
International Focus
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streaming
UM Duluth Library Multimedia (SF140.L58 O97 2006 DVD )

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

Notes:
Be sure to watch Our Daily Bread before you watch We Feed the World.
And be sure to read the Our Daily Bread viewing guide before you watch the film.

video--International Focus:
Our Daily Bread
(92 min., CC, but almost without dialogue, 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SF140.L58 O97 2006 DVD)

Our Daily Bread Viewing Guide

Our Daily Bread -- Wikipedia
viewing guide

Picture from We Feed the World. Picture from We Feed the World.
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9000.5 .W4 2007 DVD)
video--International Focus:
We Feed the World
(96 min., CC, 2007, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9000.5 .W4 2007 DVD)
We Feed the World Viewing Guide
viewing guide
       
Week 8 — "Food Technologies:
How People Get their Food in Industrialized Countries" 2

United Stated Focus
       
   
streaming
and SB191.M2 K56 2010 DVD
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

(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

Living on a Diet Less Corny Is No Joke, Filmmakers Find
-- Bonnie S. Benwick, The Washington Post (26 December 2007)

 

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streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD1761 .F66 2008 DVD


DVD 1961

video--United States Focus:

Food Fight
(73 min., 2009, DVD 1961, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD1761 .F66 2008 DVD)

film homepage
Course Viewing Guide

Food Flight -- SnagFilms


Article:
Will Allen, The 2010 TIME 100, Heroes
-- Van Jones, Time 29 April 2010.

       
Week 9 — "Food and Social Organization"
Food & Family
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The Meaning of Food Video. Tim Roufs at the White Palace Grill, Chicago.
Chicago, U.S.A.
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD

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

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



video:
Also have a look at . . .

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



Slow food, from The Meaning of Food.
Slow food, Thera, Greece.
and watch
Slow Food
National Geographic Videos (3:25 min)
       
Week 10 — Physical Anthropology and Food
Obesity, Anorexia . . .
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Two Fat Ladies.  
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX717 .T86 2008 DVD
video:
Two Fat Ladies
"Timber!"
Series 4 Episode 23
(30 min., 2008, UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX717 .T86 2008 DVD)
viewing guide


Optional Activity:

  • film: Forks Over Knives (96 min., 2011) (UM Duluth Library Multimedia RA645.N87 F67 2011 DVD)
  • film: Super Size Me (103 min., 2004) (UM Duluth Library Multimedia TX945.5.M33 S87 2004 DVD) (on-line snagfilms.com)
  • film: Fast Food Nation (116 min., 2006)
  • film: Killer At Large (182 min., 2007) (on-line snagfilms.com
       
Week 11 — "Worldview, Religion, and Health Beliefs:
The Ideological Basis of Food Practices" 2
Religion
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The Global Banquet: Politics of Food.  
streaming
and VC 714
video:
Food for Body and Spirit
(29 min., 1984, VC 714)
(China)
(Food of China)
[food holds Chinese culture together]
viewing guide
Picture from We Feed the World. Shaikh Hussain Ye of Malaysia.
Shaikh Hussain Ye
Malaysia
streaming
and
UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD
video:
The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD)
(China)
(Malaysia)
(70 min?)
[food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia]
viewing guide
       

Week 12 —

"Hunger in Global Perspective"

"Addressing Global Food Issues"

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The Meaning of Food Video.
Marcus Samuelsson, host of The Meaning of Food and Executive Chef of Aquavit and Riingo.
Marcus Samuelsson, host
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia GT2853.U5 M43 2005 DVD

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

Episode 1: "Food & Life"
examines the symbolic importance of food and eating

       
   
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia SH329.O94 E43 2010 DVD

video:
The End of the Line
(85 min., CC, 2010, UM Duluth Library Multimedia SH329.O94 E43 2010 DVD)
viewing guide

A film by Rupert Murray

The End of the Line -- Wikipedia

     

Optional Activity:

       
Week 13 — Food Politics
Provincial / State and National
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streaming
and
UM Duluth Library Media HD9000.5 .F7474 2009 DVD
video:
FRESH
(90 min., CC, 2009, UM Duluth Library Reserve Media HD9000.5 .F7474 2009 DVD)
Viewing Guide
   
streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9005 .F66 2009 DVD
video:
Food Inc.
(93 min., 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD9005 .F66 2009 DVD)
Viewing Guide
       
Week 14 — Food Politics 2
International
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streaming
and UM Duluth Library Multimedia QL737.C432 C68 2009 DVD

video:
The Cove
(92 min., CC, 2009, UM Duluth Library Multimedia QL737.C432 C68 2009 DVD)
viewing guide

directed by Louie Psihoyos

Review: In the Killing Cove: Siding with the Dolphins, Larry Rohter, The New York Times, 16 July 2009

       
Week 15 —
Student Presentations
Summary / Review
Course Evaluation
The Future of Food
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UM DULUTH Library Multimedia TP248.65.F66 F88 2004 DVD

DVD 959

and on-line

video:
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

       
       

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

 

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.?)

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Preview requested:    
On order:  

 

     
Other    
     
  Manioc
(poisonous foods)

on-line video: traditional manioc processing -- Gilles Chertier

on-line video: preparing manioc flour -- Gilles Chertier

     
   

 

A Fistful of Rice. Hungar "A Fistful of Rice" from the City Life series
(27 min., 2001, VC 4560) BC
   

 

  Feasts The Feast
(29 min., 1980, VC 1262)

"Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile Yanomanö Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes in detail the preparations for a feast involving the inhabitants of the villages and presents scenes of chanting, dancing, and trading at the feast."

   

Kawelka: Ongka’s Big Moka
(52 min., 1991 [1974], VC4405)

"In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. Explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes, the larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares for the giving of his Moka."

<http://www.uh.edu/~jcrowder/visual_anthro/Film_blurbs/Ongka.htm>

  Misc.

Personality: All About Me
(60 min., 2003, DVD 206)

note the "lemon test" to determine extrovert / introvert personalities in the first 15 min. of the film



Check with National Geographic, Discovery, and Nova for future programs

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