ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sidney Mintz, Food Porn, Gourmand
27 Nov 2018
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Non-sexual food fetishes: health movement, displaying of food on social media. Food movements: organic, local, slow food, vegan, vegetarian, consuming certain products that are sustainable and naturally derived from your environment, low-carb movement. Foodies, " food porn", gourmand: food as art, pleasure, socioeconomic status of food art, accessible to increasingly large number of people thanks to social media. Certain types of material culture( including food): are commodities: things that have values in cultures, commodities= things that acquire value in a culture and can be bought and sold in a. Socioeconomic value: our culture values this in our capitalist market capitalist/market economy. It become easy to overlook how our consumption habits affect others around the world, or how our habits have global effects: moreover, it is often difficult for us to change our consumption habits. Sugar: big sugar because of lobbying: make people think that sugar isn"t as bad for us as we think.
