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The Anthropology of Food: We Are How We Eat
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Gerber, Elaine. 2010. “The Anthropology of Food: We Are How We Eat”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-anthropology-of-food-we-are-how-we-eat.

Abstract

How do people create and manipulate meanings for the foods they consume or for those from which they abstain? How do people use food to maintain social relations and to establish relations with supernatural beings? Biology may dictate that we eat; but culture teaches us what, how, and when. This course explores cross-cultural perspectives on food and...

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Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200

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