ANTH 570 - The Anthropology of Food

3 cr

Description This course focuses on the study of food as a way to better understand present and past societies. Topic may include the following: food as a system of classification, cooking and cuisine, food offerings and sacred meals, food preferences and food taboos, commensalisms and feasting, food and social identity, food and colonialism, affluence and luxury, and anthropophagy or cannibalism, among others.

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