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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2022 |
Registration ID | ANTHB213001 |
Course Title | Anthropology of Food |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Child and Family Studies |
Instructor | Fioratta,Susanna |
Times and Days | MW 10:10am-11:30am
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Room Location | DAL119 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1855 Food is part of the universal human experience. But everyday experiences of food also reveal much about human difference. What we eat is intimately connected with who we are, where we belong, and how we see the world. In this course, we will use a socio-cultural perspective to explore how food helps us form families, national and religious communities, and other groups. We will also consider how food may become a source of inequality, a political symbol, and a subject of social discord. Examining both practical and ideological meanings of food and taste, this course will address issues of identity, social difference, and cultural experience. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Enrollment Cap: 25; 12 spaces reserved for 360 students. This course is open to non-360 students. This course is part of 360 Taste. What are the stories behind the flavors that we taste? How much of taste is individual, and how much is social? Why do some flavors taste good to us, while others don't? Why do different people sometimes have very different reactions to the same foods? How do taste preferences change across space and over time? This course cluster invites students to explore the histories, cultural meanings, and politics surrounding taste. We will examine how our tastes are influenced by factors like nationality, cultural group, socioeconomic class, and public discourse. We will also consider how we use our own tastes to understand, and even transform, the world around us. Ultimately, this focus on taste will allow us to investigate fundamental questions of universality and difference in the human experience..If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application which is due on April 6th at NOON by clicking on link.https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside-96. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in EALC/COML B218.Enrollment requirements: If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors then sophomores), then junior, then sophomore, then senior. |
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