Food and Culture

ANTH

303

Food and Culture

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored--what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity. The course will consider the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. The course will address issues around food, culture and gender.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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