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"Palermo, Sicily
Italy
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
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"Eating Rat At The New Year"
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Today is Wednesday, 04 December 2024, 08:46 (08:46 AM) CST, day 339 of 2024
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All readings are from the textbooks listed on the Class Textbook WebPage

REM: The Midterm Exam and the Final Exam are open-book / open-notes exams

Before you begin to look at the textbooks,
see the note about the exams on the Class Textbook WebPage


 

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Week 1
26 - 31 August 2024

Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course:
"Setting the Anthropological Table"

     
 
  • Eating Culture, Second Edition, Gillian Crowther

    • PROLOGUE, "SETTING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TABLE"
    • Glossary page through the Glossary on pp. 301-312 and familiarize yourelf with the terms
 
 

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Week 2
1 - 7 September 2024

"Omnivorousness: Defining Food"


     
   
 

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Week 3
8 - 14 September 2024

"Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production"
Hunting / Gathering / Foraging and the Emergence of Food Production

     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Ch. 15 "The forager"
    • Ch. 16 "The omnivore's dilemma"
    • Ch. 17 "The ethics of eating animals"

    (We're starting this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of "The forager" and "The ethics of eating animals" as next Week we begin having a closer look at hunting / gathering / foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies)

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Assignments start in Week 4)
 
 

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Week 4
15 - 21 September 2024

"Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production"

     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Ch. 18 "Hunting: the meat"
    • Ch. 19 "Gathering: the fungi"
    • Ch. 20 "The perfect meal"

    (We're continuing this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of Hunting and Gathering, and in Ch. 2 of Eating Culture we have a closer look at hunting / gathering /foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies)

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • "Introduction"
    • Ch. 1 "How to Read a Menu"
 
 

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Week 5
22 - 28 September 2024

"Cooks and Kitchens"

     
   
 

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Week 6
29 September - 5 October 2024

"Recipes and Dishes"

 
 


Review for Midterm Exam

f2024 Wk 4 Midterm Exam Submitted Question is due by the end of Week 4, Sunday, 22 September 2024

Early next week you can review the questions and my comments there, and use them as study questions

f2024 Wk 6 the Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, 30 September 2024 to 11:59 p.m. (10:00 p.m. starting time), Saturday, 05 October 2024

NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 1-5, so be sure not to miss watching them.

Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afvideo_schedule.html#week01>

 
     
 

For after the Midterm Exam

  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • "Introduction: our national eating disorder"
    • Ch. 1 "The plant: corn's conquest"
    • Ch. 2 "The farm"
    • Ch. 3 "The elevator"
    • Ch. 4 "The feedlot: making meat"

    (We're starting this book here, with Michael Pollan's discussion of "The forager" and "The ethics of eating animals" as next Week we begin having a closer look at hunting / gathering / foraging as a way people get their food in nonindustrialized societies)

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Review)
 
 
 
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Week 7
6 - 12 October 2024

"Eating-In: Commensality and Gastro-Politics"


     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Introduction: our national eating disorder
    • Ch. 5 "The processing plant: making complex foods"
    • Ch. 6 "The consumer: a republic of fat"
    • Ch. 7 "The meal: fast food"

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Review)
 
 

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Week 8
13 - 19 October 2024

"Eating-Out and Gastronomy"


     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Ch. 8 "All flesh is grass"
    • Ch. 9 "Big Organic"
    • Ch. 10 "Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture"
    • Ch. 11 "The animals: practicing complexity"

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Review)
 
     
 

Fall Break
24 - 25 October 2024

 
 

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Week 9
20 - 26 October 2024

"Gastro-Anomie: Global Indigestion?"

     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Ch. 12, "Slaughter: in a glass abattoir"
    • Ch. 13, "The market: 'greetings from non-barcode people'"
    • Ch. 14, "The meal: grass-fed"

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Review)
 
 

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Week 10
27 October - 2 November 2024

"Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home"

     
   
 

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Week 11
3 - 9 November 2024

Epilogue: Leftovers to Takeaway

     
   
 
     
   
 
Work on Readings for Your Project


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Week 13
17 - 23 November 2024

     
   
 
Work on Readings for Your Term Paper
(which is due next week)
 
 


Ketchup bottle.

Catch Up / Review / Preview


 Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food
The Language of Food
 
 

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Week 14
24 - 30 November 2024

     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • Ch. 12, "Slaughter: in a glass abattoir"
    • Ch. 13, "The market: 'greetings from non-barcode people'"
    • Ch. 14, "The meal: grass-fed"

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • (Review)
 
     
 

f2024 Wk 14 Final Exam Submitted Question due by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, 1 December 2024.
f2024 Wk 14 Term Paper (up to 400 points) due by Sunday, 1 December 2024.

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?
 
 

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Week 15
1 - 7 December 2024

Summary / Review
Course Evaluation
World Hunger and Other International and Global Food Issues
The Future of Food

     
 
  •  Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

    • (Review)

  • The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky

    • Ch. 12 "Does This Name Make Me Sound Fat? Why Ice Cream and Crackers Have Different Names"
    • Ch. 13 "Why the Chinese Don't Have Dessert"
    • "Epilogue"
 
 

 Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food
The Language of Food
 
 
 
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Week 15

8 - 13 December 2024

Final Exam Week

Catch up, and Review for Final Exam

 
     
 

f2024 Wk 16 The Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, 9 December 2024, until 11:59 p.m., Friday, 13 December 2024.
NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos since the Midterm Exam, so be sure not to miss watching them.

Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afvideo_schedule.html#week06>

 
     
 

 

f2024 Wk 13 (optional) Extra Credit Paper(s) due by Sunday, 24 November 2024

AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

NOTE: The Canvas Gradebook entry for Extra Credit requires that “out of zero” be used when setting up an Extra Credit assignment.

 
 
 

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