ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Sidney Mintz
17 Dec 2013
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Mc = anything made or modified by humans. Artifact = portable forms of material culture. Commodities = things that acquire value in a culture and can be bought and sold in a capitalist/market economy. All commodities have use value and/or exchange value. The political economy of food: our food choices have global effects. We infuse culture into our preparation of food, we turn it from a natural to a cultural product food does more than meet our nutritional needs food become markers of our identities and require status (like fancy food) Exploitation of environment and labour in colonial and contemporary contexts . All commodities, like certain types of food, participate in three phase of economic exchange: Consumption most anthropologists study this phase intensively. It is difficult to change our consumption patterns. 1985, sweetness and power history of sugar consumption in europe and its economic and cultural impact. We have had an increase in sugar addictions.
