GHS 254 - Anthropology of Food

Credits: 4
An examination of food and foodways from an anthropological perspective. With attention to the interplay between biology, culture, and power, students explore the myriad of ways in which food-related behaviors influence human health.  Core principles for the course are food safety, security, sovereignty, sustainability, and sociality.  Using those lenses, students explore foods as medicines or poisons, the relationship between differential access to resources and health, the importance of power and representation in making changes to food systems to support community health, tensions between maintaining worker health and the food supply, and the ways in which relationships and identities are forged and maintained through ritual and shared cuisines.

 

Distribution Requirements: IP.