ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Comfort Food, Eating Animals, Marvin Harris
28 Apr 2013
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Example: match the eating context with the social meaning. Home cooked meal=romantic, cup of coffee=first meeting, ect: food is social and has a lot of meaning and there"s a situational effect on it. Got a feeling to it, that you get emotions from- has meaning- we can also think about foods that we also hate/cannot stand. The way we organize/view food has significant impact if we"re going to eat it- ex rats=no. People tend to classify foods different ways, according to their culture. Foods can be: edible/inedible, hot/cold, male/female (some kind of food prohibition whether males or females cannot eat), wet/dry. Example : hot and cold classification of foods in puerto rice. Hot: chocolate, coffee, alcohol, ect: kind of foods we eat tie into health. Common in latin america and asia- derived from system of. Health- balance of the different components in your life- suffering from chills, you would consume warmer/hotter goods- balance of opposing elements.
