Anthropology of Food: Food Maps
When you go out to dinner with friends and family do you imagine the connections that are being made between the people, space, and the food? Well, students of the Fall ’16 Anthropology of Food course have mapped it out for you!
Below you will find student interpretations of the relationships that are created when groups and communities share food.
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“My project began out of a curiosity for how the Mexican tamale became a favored delicacy in the American South, particularly amongst African Americans. The original plan was to identify regional tamale distinctions, tracing the food out of the Mississippi Delta. Instead the tamale tells of a greater story of diaspora and asks for us to rethink cultural exchange in the Americas by using the Gulf region as the epicenter.” -Dani Willcutt
-Giselle Kennedy Lord
“What I found so fascinating about this project is that each one of us in class followed the same guidelines and came up with entirely different interpretations. I began with the location I wanted to focus on—Tatte in Brookline—and then the rest just came as I conducted my observations. I wanted to look into why it was that I so often left Tatte feeling unsatisfied in some way. I decided to map the space and in doing so I realized that on a spacial and emotional level the cafe was clogged and uncomfortable leading to negative emotions in the space. The cafe’s layout is largely responsible for this along with other factors that I mention in my paper.” -Rachel DeSimone
Halloween Food Map
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