IDST 2500H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Regimes, Moral Economy, Homestead Acts
20 Dec 2016
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Idst 2500: 21st september, 2015 food production and food globalization. At the core of any food system is the production and control of food. The way groups may/may not be able to exert power/control over parts of the food system. The values that effect rituals of food: the types of food we produce/consume the symbolic meaning of food. 4 million years ago: the ancestors of humans diverged from apes. 200000 years ago: the first homo sapiens, the neandertals, hunter-gatherers. 30000 years ago: homo sapiens replace neandertals because of a division of labour that produces the control of labour. Hunter-gatherers have a limited acquisition of material goods they don"t own things. Things that are owned" are usually owned collectively. Hunter-gatherers (modern humans) divided labour between the sexes there was no division in neandertal societies. Hunters get the essential protein, and gatherers produce children and process the protein into edible substances. Men use the control of protein to control women.
