ANTH 277 - Food, Consumption and the Body

Credits: 4

Course combines critical readings of the cultural meanings of food with an examination of the political economy of food production and consumption. Topics include: taste, class, and “high cuisines”; food and gender; food crises; global politics of food; the spaces of food production and consumption; “gourmet” and “ethnic” foods; food disorders; body image. Sociocultural anthro course.