ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Andrew Sherratt, Staple Food, Biological Anthropology
28 Nov 2016
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Food: a substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. Crops to cuisine" - cultural aspects of food. 1960"s methodological innovations to study subsistence and diet. Initial focus on subsistence - what people eat (often viewed as deterministic) We don"t eat pig/cow, we eat pork/beef food, meals, consumption = culture. Determinism: the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will . Binford et al argue that the primary influence on culture" is the environment as to how people live their lives and how they adapt". Environment: climate - hot/cold/dry/wet, ecology - plants, soils, animals, resources - timber/stone, metals, clays, etc. During pregnancy many taboos (female and male) The capacity of a person to act in any given environment has an awareness of their physical activity and the goals the activity is aimed at realizing". Bone chemistry reflects what we consume ( signatures ) British v. us - defence of upper canada.
