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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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Eating a"grub worm"
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A Fistfull of Rice
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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.

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Week 13 Day 25

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Tuesday 21 April 2009

chocolate

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AFforum: Topic 9: Question for the Final Exam

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Make up a Good Question for the Final Exam

... Your final exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 3 May, 2010 ...

For Topic 9 have a look at the Final Exam information at <www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_final.html>

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Review the materials . . .
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in your class notes,
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Assignment:
Make up at least one good question for the final exam and post it on the the AFforum, and . . . Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

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REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the CPforum
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Focus: Food and Economic and Political Alliances

The EU

Chocolate Wars:
A run-up to scaling

chocolate

(slides)

The Coca Cola War
(Sidney Mintz)

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Assignment

Read:

Omnivore's Dilemma, Chs. 11-14: The animals: practicing complexity to The meal: grass-fed

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Notes

Thursday 02 April 2009: Food and Social Change – Food related problems: Obesity, Anorexia nervosa, Bulemia . . . (slides, up to ca. 105 "Dying to be Thin")
Thursday 9 April 2009: introduced and viewed The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food (50 min., 2001, VC 4770)
Tuesday 14 April 2009: Ron Haxton presentation

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Week 13 Day 26

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Thursday 23 April 2009

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REM: Extra Credit Case Study is due by Friday, 3 July 2009

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AFforum: Topic 9: Question for the Final Exam

Image of a blue book.

Make up a Good Question for the Final Exam

... Your final exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 3 May, 2010 ...

For Topic 9 have a look at the Final Exam information at <www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_final.html>

Click on the various items for details
Review the materials . . .
in your text,
in your class notes,
on the video viewing guides

Useful Information:
—

How to write an essay exam

Purdue University Online Writing Lab Old Exams Online:

Final Exam tba
(.doc version) (.rtf version) (.pdf version)

Other Sample Exam Questions
including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

Assignment:
Make up at least one good question for the final 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 9

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

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Student Presentations I

Thursday 23 April 2009 Week 13 Day 26
		Tim
	1	Andy
	2	Jenna
	3	Alyssa
	4	Emily K.
	5	Alicia
	6	Samantha

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Old Business

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Assignment

Review:	The Cultural Feast, Ch. 5: Foraging
Re-read:	Re-read: Omnivore's Dilemma; Read: Ch. 15: "The forager" and Chs. 16-17: "The omnivore's dilemma," and "The ethics of eating animals"

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Notes

Thursday 23 April 2009: Presentations, as scheduled

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