We continue our series of posts from the Anthropology of Food class (ML 641) in which students reflect on current issues, discuss assignments they have worked on, or address topics of particular interest to them. Today’s post is from Kaitlin Valli. When I first started looking into Kazakhstan for my final project, I wasn’t sure what […]
Dr. Karen Metheny will teach Food and Society (MET ML 712) on Thursday evenings during the fall 2017 semester, and has prepared this overview of the class. »How do social institutions shape the way we think about food? Our ability to access food? »How do work schedules and family dynamics shape or constrain the family […]
Our summer series, Perspectives from Anthropology of Food, continues with this post from Gastronomy student Madoka Sasa. In the article “Anthropology of Food,” R. Kenji Tierney and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (2012, 118) describe blowfish consumption in Japan: Not all objectively “edible” items are regarded as food for a people, even in times of severe food shortages. […]
Our summer blog series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food” presents work written by the students in the summer Anthropology of Food class (ML 641) in which they reflect on current issues, discuss assignments they have worked on, or address topics of particular interest to them. Today’s post is from Emma Herman, a student in the Nutrition […]
The next entry in our summer blog series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food” is by Gastronomy student Sydney Manning. This series presents work written by the students in the summer Anthropology of Food class (ML 641) in which they reflect on current issues, discuss assignments they have worked on, or address topics of particular interest […]