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Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Eating and Relating
Sandra Calkins
Comments
Food is vital for human survival; a reservoir of meanings, tastes and distinctions. Food like few other cultural artifacts penetrates eating bodies in immediate, intense and sensual ways. This seminar introduces to the anthropology of food and highlights food’s ability to start, sustain or destroy social relationships. Topics include classical texts about food and the senses, identity, belonging and commensality, food taboos, and the socioeconomic and cultural worlds that food and eating bring into play. Students will also approach eating as a way of relating to material surroundings (plants, animals, markets, farms etc.) and examine what relations are assembled in their own practices of eating.
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Suggested reading
Recommended:
- Counihan, Carole, and Penny Van Esterik, eds. 2008. Food and Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge.
- Counihan, Carole, and Penny Van Esterik, eds. 2008. Food and Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge.
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2019-10-16 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-10-23 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-10-30 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-11-06 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-11-13 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-11-20 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-11-27 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-12-04 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-12-11 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-12-18 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-01-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-01-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-01-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-01-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-02-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2020-02-12 14:00 - 16:00