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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.

"Palermo, Sicily, Italy
has the best gelato in the world"
-- Willie Henderson

Anthropology of Food

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(06/07/2010 - 07/02/2010)

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Eating a"grub worm"
Video: Desert People
Australia

A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal

Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.

Claire Kathleen Roufs
First solid food, rice (isn't as handy as the original)
5 months old
Duluth, MN, U.S.A.

Video:"Eating Rat at the New Year"
Vietnam
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Neolithic grinding stone
Prehistoric Iberia
Spain | Portugal

Week 03 Day 05

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Food in Prehistory
and Nonindustrial Societies

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Announcements

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

In the news...

Slow Food Lake Superior’s Ski & Stew

2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, Hartley Nature Center, 3001 Woodland Ave. An afternoon of skiing, eating and learning about and supporting local food systems. Cost: $5, free for Slow Food members and ages 12 and younger. Reservations strongly encouraged by Tuesday. Call (218) 728-2687 or

e-mail lakesuperiorslowfood@yahoo.com.

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Features of the Day

Assignment Review

Case Study #1: Food and Archaeology

Food Archaeology Bibliograpy

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

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"Diet and Human Evolution"
(slides)

Prehistoric Maize
Tehuacán, Mexico

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Old Business

"Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Nutritional Anthropology and Basic Human Nutritional Needs, from 143, Gary Paul Nabhan (slides)

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Assignment

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

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Notes

Thursday 29 January 2009: "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Nutritional Anthropology and Basic Human Nutritional Needs, #1-!43, Gary Paul Nabhan (slides)
Tuesday 3 February 2009: finished "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Nutritional Anthropology and Basic Human Nutritional Needs, up to #265 "The Environment:(slides); began Diet and Human Evolution, finishing up to # 97 "What is Adaptation" (slides)

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Hunting seal on the Spring IceNeandertal Hunter

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

Week 03 Day 06

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Food in Prehistory
and Nonindustrial Societies

Thursday 5 February 2009

videos: "Patterns of Subsistence" –
2:10 "Food Foragers and Pastoralists"
and
2:40 "Food Producers"
(60 min., 1994, VC 2466, pts. 7 & 8)

Girl with baby yak
Nepal

Yak milking
Tibet

Announcements

REM: The Food Archaeology Case Study is due by Friday, 12 February 2010
NOTE: AFforum Topic 1 below: First U.S. Chocoholics?

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AFforum Topic 1

First U.S. Chocoholics?

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Prehistoric Jars from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
National Geographic

On Monday 2 February 2009 National Geographic announced that "Chemical residues found on pottery jar shards reveal that the practice of drinking chocolate had spread at least as far north as Chaco Canyon (map) in northern New Mexico by A.D. 1000 to 1125—400 years earlier than chocolate was thought to have reached what is now the United States." 2 February 2009 -- National Geographic

In November of 2007 National Geographic also announced the discovery of the origins of chocolate itself.

Have a look at these two articles from National Geographic,
and the class web page on chocolate:

First Chocoholics in U.S. Found in New Mexico?

Chocolate Origins Traced to Beer Makers 3,000 Years Ago

Chocolate

Questions:

1. What do you think is the major importance of these discoveries?

2. Why?

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
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to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 1

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the AFforum
or bring them up in class

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Feature of the Day

"Food Technologies: An Introduction to How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies"
(Cf., The Cultural Feast, Ch. 5)

videos:

"Patterns of Subsistence" --

2:10
"Food Foragers and Pastoralists"

In the news . . .

Urban foragers wander around the city in search of food, communion, and conversation -- Scout Report, Vol. 15 No. 30 (31 July 2009)

2:40
"Food Producers"

[From the Faces of Culture Series]
(60 min., 1994, VC 2466, pts. 7 & 8)

This two-part program is an introduction to
How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies

Next time we will have an in-depth look at
the foragers of the Western Australian Desert region:
Desert People

(51 min., 1965, VC 1094)

Neandertal Hunter

Yak milking
Tibet

Girl with baby yak
Nepal

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Old Business

next time

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Assignment

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

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Notes

Tuesday 3 February 2009: finished "Setting the Table For a Cultural Feast": Nutritional Anthropology and Basic Human Nutritional Needs, up to #265 "The Environment:(slides); began Diet and Human Evolution, finishing up to # 97 "What is Adaptation" (slides)

Thursday 5 February: Introduced and viewed "Food Foragers and Pastoralists" "Food Producers" [From the Faces of Culture Series] (60 min., 1994, VC 2466, pts. 7 & 8)

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