Apr 25, 2024  
2007-2008 
    
2007-2008 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANT 267 - Food and Culture


Instructor
Lozada

This course introduces how food practices shape societies and cultures throughout the world. Food ways will be examined from an anthropological perspective for their social and cultural implications; this is not a survey of nutritional or dietetic sciences. Topics to be covered include: the use of food in social contexts; the symbolism of food; and the political economy of food.

Satisfies a distribution requirement in the Social Sciences and provides major credit in Anthropology.

Satisfies the Cultural Diversity Requirement.