ANTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Enculturation

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH1001
• Professor: Neil Maclean

Document Summary

Humanity takes food as the highest good. 1949: socialist era: population divided to: urban vs. "rustication" movement - 17 million youth (urban residents) voluntarily gave away and moved to the countryside to learn what it meant to grow own food and learn from rural households. What, where, how much and with whom you eat is a moral (ethical) issue + economic problem. How well the state feeds its people is a moral and political judgement on state legitimacy: people"s physical well being (ex. Utopian nationalism, symbolised by eating together in cheap outdoor dining spots (serving southern food: symbolize a growing concept of utopian nationalism (equal distribution of wealth) Food symbolized the economic development that would be shared with the entire nation. Second-generation immigrants seek opportunity and wealth (came to shenzhen in. 90s: very different from the early arrivers, after shenzhen was developed, enculturated differently: to seek wealth for individual.