ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Maple Syrup, Poutine, Comfort Food
24 Nov 2015
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Anthrop 1aa3 - lecture #25 - food fetishes (guest lecture: allee. What and how we eat can become an expression of our ideas and beliefs: national foods. Asian countries: rice: food taboos, food represents larger cultural ideals and individual taste. What is a fetish: excessive or irrational commitment, sexual - where abnormal gratification is linked to a particular object. General use vs clinical sexual vs non-sexual. Other uses of the word fetish: religious- a tangible object of religious belief, commodity- social relations of economic production. Situating fetish in the everyday life (popular media) Tv shows like my strange addiction and strange sex portray fetishes in everyday life, but having "strange" in the title does not demonstrate acceptance. True blood shows it as normal to have sex with vampires. The movie american pie connects apple pie with masturbation, associating food with sex. Fifty shades of grey brings bdsm from deviance into something that was common and talked about in everyday life.
