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

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

Anthropology of Food

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Spring 2010 Calendar

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

Week 04 Day 07

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Tuesday 10 February 2009

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

Hunting seal on the Spring IceNeandertal Hunter

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

Announcements

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

In the news...

tba

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Feature of the Day

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

Last time we viwed a two-part introduction to
How People Get Their Food in Nonindustrialized Societies:

"Patterns of Subsistence" --
"Food Foragers and Pastoralists"
and
"Food Producers"

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

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

(time permitting)

video selection:
Netsilik Group Fishing at the Stone Weir
(30 min, 1967, VC 3298)

Hunting seal on the Spring Ice

Fishing at the Stone Weir

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

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Old Business

next time

return to scheduled features of the day

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Assignment

Read:

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

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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)
Tuesday 10 February 2009: viewed video: The Desert People (51 min., 1965, VC 1094)

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Aztec Feast

Week 04 Day 08

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Thursday 12 February 2009

Aztec Cacao Sculpture

Announcements

The Food Archaeology Case Study is due by Friday, 12 February 2010
Your midterm exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 22 February 2010
(See details below)

In the news...

From BBCFood: Jill Dupleix's Valentine's 'date bait'

Date Bait.

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AFforum Topic 3

Bluebook

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam

Have a look at the the Midterm Exam materials at
<www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_midterm.html#title>

including the sample exam question format

including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

Sample Exam Questions on-line

Then review the materials so far covered this semester

in your text
in your class notes
on the video viewing guides

Recommendations on how to study and take exams:

How to write an essay exam

Purdue University Online Writing Lab

test taking strategies
learning styles
study strategies
study strategies
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
extra help

Assignment:

Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam and post it on the the AFforum, and . . .

Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

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

Set Folder Selector to Topic 3

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

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

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Features of the Day

"Diet and Human Evolution"
(slides)
(cont.)

Prehistoric Maize
Tehuacán, Mexico

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

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Old Business

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 #101 "What is Adaptation" (slides)

return to scheduled features of the day

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Assignment

Read:

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

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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 # 101 "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)
Tuesday 10 February 2009: viewed video: The Desert People (51 min., 1965, VC 1094)
Thursday 12 February 2009: Reviewed "Diet and Human Evolution" (slides) up to Neandertal

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