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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

A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal

Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.

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U.S.A.

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Today is Monday, 13 May 2024, 04:58 (04:58 AM) CDT, day 134 of 2024

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Week 1
3 - 8 June 2024

Introduction / Orientation:
Introduction to Anthropology / Orientation to the Course
(.pptx)

Meet Your Professor
(WebPage)
slides: (.pptx)

Week 2
9 - 15 June 2024

(optional) A Very Brief Outline of the Course Structure
(.pptx)

Main Characteristics of Anthropology

WebPage Summary

week 2:

The four fields of anthropology

(.pptx)

week 3:

culture as a primary concept

How about a little game of Jeopardy?

(.pptx)

week 3:

comparative method as major approach

(.pptx)

week 6:

holism as a primary theoretical goal

Anthropology and its Parts Chart
- Enlarged Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

(.pptx)

week 6:

fieldwork as a primary research technique

(.pptx)

(optional) Finding Information on Food of Different Countries and Cultures
(.pptx)

Week 3
16 - 22 June 2024

Main Characteristics of Anthropology

WebPage Summary

week 2:

The four fields of anthropology

(.pptx)

week 3:

culture as a primary concept

How about a little game of Jeopardy?

(.pptx)

week 3:

comparative method as major approach

(.pptx)

week 6:

holism as a primary theoretical goal

Anthropology and its Parts Chart
- Enlarged Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

(.pptx)

week 6:

fieldwork as a primary research technique

(.pptx)

Main Characteristics of Anthropology

WebPage Summary

week 2:

The four fields of anthropology

(.pptx)

week 3:

culture as a primary concept

How about a little game of Jeopardy?

(.pptx)

week 3:

comparative method as major approach

(.pptx)

week 6:

holism as a primary theoretical goal

Anthropology and its Parts Chart
- Enlarged Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

(.pptx)

week 6:

fieldwork as a primary research technique

(.pptx)

Week 4
23 - 29 June 2024

Human Nutrient Needs

Biocultural Framework for the Study of Diet and Nutrition: Introduction
[do not spend too much time on this slide set]

(.pptx)

TERMS:

Nutritional Status

(.pptx)

Biological Makeup (.pptx)

Human Nutritient Needs

(.pptx)

Diet (.pptx)

Cuisine (.pptx)

The Environments (.pptx)
- Physical
- Sociocultural
- Economic and Political

Food Systems
(.pptx)

Food Pyramid -- MyPlate
(.pptx)
WebPage

Diet and Human Evolution

Diet and Human Evolution: Introduction
[do not spend too much time on this slide set]

(.pptx)

Diets of Extinct Humans / Paleontology (.pptx)

Teeth

Skulls and Jaws

The Postcranial Skeleton

If you want to have a closer look at the primate chart in the slides: "Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates "

Adaptation (.pptx)
Using Chemistry to Infer the Diets of Extinct Hominini (.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]

A-Z Index
(.pptx)

su2024 Wks 4-5 the Anthropology of Food Midterm Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Thursday, 27 June 2024 to 11:59 p.m. (10:00 p.m. starting time), Wednesday, 03 July 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>

Week 5
30 June - 6 July 2024

Food Revolutions: A Little Background

A Little Background

(WebPage)

Food Revolutions: Neolithic / "Agricultural"

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)

See also Neolithic, Plant Domestication, Animal Domestication, Early Agriculture, Hunting / Gathering / Foraging, and Prehistoric Dentistry

Was the "invention" of agriculture all a huge mistake?

Nutritional Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution:
A Comparison of Foragers and Agriculturalists
(Indian Knoll and Hardin Village)
(.pptx)

Social and Political Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution
(.pptx)

based on The Cultural Feast: An Introduction to Food and Society, Second Edition.
Bryant, Carol A., Kathleen M. DeWalt, Anita Courtney, and Jeffery Schwartz.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2003).

Food Revolutions: Spices

The Search for Spices

(.pptx)

See also Spices

Food Revolutions: Industrial

The Industrial Revolution

(.pptx)

• Early Technology: Transportation, Refrigeration, Canning

(.pptx)

See also The Scientific Revolution, Food Science

, Food Transportation, and Cf., Fernández-Armesto (2003)

Food Revolutions: Scientific

The Scientific Revolution

(.pptx)

• Modern-Day Adaptations

(.pptx)

• Highlight: Vegetarian Diets: Then and Now

(.pptx)

See also The Industrial Revolution, Food Science, Food Chemistry, Bio-Physical Anthropology and Food, Genetically Modified (GM) Foods, Nanofoods, Food Safety, and Food Transportation

Week 6
7 - 13 July 2024

Main Characteristics of Anthropology

WebPage Summary

week 2:

The four fields of anthropology

(.pptx)

week 3:

culture as a primary concept

How about a little game of Jeopardy?

(.pptx)

week 3:

comparative method as major approach

(.pptx)

week 6:

holism as a primary theoretical goal

Anthropology and its Parts Chart
- Enlarged Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

(.pptx)

week 6:

fieldwork as a primary research technique

(.pptx)

Main Characteristics of Anthropology

WebPage Summary

week 2:

The four fields of anthropology

(.pptx)

week 3:

culture as a primary concept

How about a little game of Jeopardy?

(.pptx)

week 3:

comparative method as major approach

(.pptx)

week 6:

holism as a primary theoretical goal

Anthropology and its Parts Chart
- Enlarged Chart: "Anthropology and . . . It's Parts"

(.pptx)

week 6:

fieldwork as a primary research technique

(.pptx)

Week 7
14 - 20 July 2024

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
and friends
Ch. 8

Two Fat Ladies slides
(.pptx)

Sherri A. Inness,
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
and friends
Chs. 1-7

Secret Ingredients slides
(.pptx)

Week 8
21 - 26 July 2024

Obesity and Eating Disorders . . .

The "Obesity Epidemic"
(.pptx)

Optional:

Body Image and Eating Behaviors (.pptx)
Eating Disorders (.pptx)
Causes of Eating Disorders (.pptx)
Obesity, Eating Disorders: Applications (.pptx)

See Student Presentations in Your

folder

su2024 Wk 8 The Anthropology of Food Final Exam will be available from 12:01 a.m. Thursday, 25 July 2024, until 11:59 p.m., Friday, 26 July 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>

"Other Important Terms"

(.pptx)

Units of Analysis

(.pptx)

Three Major Perennial Debates

(.pptx)

(NOTE: These are long slide decks as they cover more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. Also see note on slide formats.)