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ANTH 3888: Calendar Spring 2026

Untitled Document
Due Dates

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Anthropology of Food



to Sweet Treats around the World

What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
 
World Food and Water Clock
OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.    
 
     
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
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
U.S.A.

Eating rat.
"Eating Rat At The New Year"
Vietnam
National Geographic
Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Desert People
Australia

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Texts Assignments Summary
for Anthropology of Food

Semester Readings Summary

New s2026
 The Language of Food
Today is Thursday, 14 May 2026, 13:10 (01:10 PM) CDT, day 134 of 2026
  
May 2026
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first/last days of classes
 
holidays
 
     
     

 Semester Calendar su2026

  "Weekly Overviews"

 Major Due Dates

 Video Schedule

 Slides Schedule

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
11-16 June 2026


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

     
 
  • Eating Culture, Third Edition, Gillian Crowther

    • INTRODUCTION, "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
17-23 June 2026

"Omnivorousness: Defining Food"


     
   
   

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Week 3
24-30 June 2026

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

     
 
  • Eating Culture, Third Edition, Gillian Crowther

    • CHAPTER TWO: SETTLED INGREDIENTS: DOMESTIC FOOD ACQUISITIONS
    • NOTE LEARNING OBJECTIVES on p. 33.
 
   

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Week 4
31 June-7 July 2026

"Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production"

     
   
     
 


Review for Midterm Exam

su2026 Wk 4 Midterm Exam Submitted Question is due by the end of Week 4, Sunday, 7 June 2026

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

 
   

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Week 5
8-14 July 2026

"Cooks and Kitchens"

     
   
   

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Week 6
15-21 July 2026

"Recipes and Dishes"

     
 
su2026 Wk 6 the Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m.Monday, 15 June 2026 to 11:59 p.m. (10:00 p.m. starting time),Tuesday, 16 June 2026

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

 
 

For after the Midterm Exam

 
   
 
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Week 7
22-28 July 2026

"Eating-In: Commensality and Gastro-Politics"


     
   
   

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Week 8
29 July-4 August 2026

"Eating-Out and Gastronomy"


     
   
     
   

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Week 9
5-11 August 2026

"Gastro-Anomie: Global Indigestion?"

     
 
    • Ch. 9 Salad, Salsa, and the Flour of Chivalry
 
     
 
SU2026 Wk 9 Final Exam Submitted Question due by 11:59 p.m.Wednesday, 7 July 2026.
 
   

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Week 10
12-18 August 2026

"Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home"

     
 
  • Eating Culture, Third Edition, Gillian Crowther

    • CHAPTER NINE: LOCAL RESPONSES: FOOD SECURITY
    • NOTE LEARNING OBJECTIVES on p. 245.
    • "EPILOGUE: LEFTOVERS TO TAKEAWAY"
 
     

su2026 Wk 10 The Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Thursday, 16 July 2026, until 11:59 p.m., Friday, 17 July 2026.

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


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