Anthropology of Food

• Main Characteristics of Anthropology
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  (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also.)
  
  
  • the four fields of general anthropology
    
    
  • culture as a primary concept
    
    
  • comparative method as major approach
    
    
  • holism as a primary theoretical goal
    
    
  • fieldwork as a primary research technique

• "Other Important Terms"
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• Units of Analysis
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• Three Major Perennial Debates
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  [see note on slide formats] (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also.)

• Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition: Introduction (.pptx)
  • Nutritional Status (.pptx)
  • Biological Makeup (.pptx)
  • Human Nutrient Needs (.pptx)
  • Diet (.pptx)
  • Cuisine (.pptx)
  • The Environment (.pptx)
    • Physical
    • Sociocultural
    • Economic and Political
• Food Systems (.pptx)

• Figure 1.1 from The Cultural Feast: Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition
• Nutrition Labels

• Diet and Human Evolution: Introduction (.pptx)
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• Diets of Extinct Humans / Paleontology (.pptx)
  • Teeth
  • Skulls and Jaws
  • The Postcranial Skeleton
    
    

• Adaptation (.pptx)
• Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominins (.pptx)
• Our Place in Nature (.pptx)
• A Brief Who's Who of the Early Hominines (.pptx)
• What Did Early Hominines Eat? (.pptx)
• What Can We Say About the Diets of Fossil Homo (.pptx)
• Highlight: Lactose Intolerance (.pptx)
  
  
  • Federal Agencies Regulating Food (.pptx)
  • USDA Food Guide Pyramid (.pptx) [updated in 2005, then replaced by MyPlate in 2011]

News Item: Cows Are Key to 2,500 Years of Human Progress
-- Guardian (04 April 2010)

• The Neolithic "Agricultural" Revolution (.pptx)
  • Domestication (.pptx)
    • Tehuacán Valley, Mexico (.pptx)
  • A Protein Primer (.pptx)
  • Nutritional Consequences: Foragers and Agriculturalists (.pptx)
  • Social and Political Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution (.pptx)
• The Search for Spices (.pptx)
• The Industrial Revolution (.pptx)
• Early Technology: Transportation, Refrigeration, Canning (.pptx)
• The Scientific Revolution (.pptx)
• Modern-Day Adaptations (.pptx)
• Highlight: Vegetarian Diets: Then and Now