ANTH 196S Food for Thought

Adopts food as an analytical lens to explore the relationship between environmental sustainability and social justice. Course draws from ethnographic texts, films, and recipe books across the world to provide an overview of contemporary cultures, debates, insights, and politics. Students examine how everyday food practices shape meanings of community, gender, taste, beliefs, taboos, hierarchies, and class. Students taking this course learn how food, consumption, and dietary practices allow us to understand significant economic, social, and political developments. (Formerly Food Cultures in South Asia.)