ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marvin Harris, Paleolithic Diet, Cold Food Festival
12 Apr 2016
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Six major classes of nutrients: macro and micronutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins (amino acids, vitamins, minerals, water. Vitamin c: we need to intake via food; cats produce enough in their liver and don"t need it. Therefore we suffer from scurvy-vitamin c-collagen-need to maintain. Micronutrients: taken in small amounts; found in most of the food. Food choices are determined by: cultural, religious, environmental, economic and personal factors. The feast of the death 10 days; flesh and skin removed from the bones; then only one is dead. In return: more you spend, bigger you are in the community. Food is : sustenance and symbol, biological and cultural, linked to status and power, defining and maintaining social relations. Cookening in france: people post food pictures; sell your dishes; get yums" as likes. In globalization of processed food, we are losing balance. Early food production: earliest evidence from near east (fertile crescent, wild grains and grasses cultivated 12,000 bce: domesticated grains .
