ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soil Type, Global Warming, Social Environment
Document Summary
Social, cultural, aesthetic, and moral meaning of food. State of balance of supply and expenditure of nutrients. Biocultural approach: examines interactions between social and environmental sectors that affect nutrition of population. Physical environment: features that establish conditions of food procurement and production. Social environment: other societies, regions, communities whose food productions and distribution affect group in question. Social organization: social institutions that relate to production, distribution and consumption of food. Technology: range of tools and techniques used for production, distribution, acquisition, storage, and preparation of food. Culture: ideas and concepts related to food. Nutritional needs and status: health as determined by dietary intake. Global warming which alters the food supply or alterations in economic exchanges. Cultural systems of belief related to nutritional outcomes. Human/ cultural adaptations that improve food procurement. Really good storage system that will preserve food or the ability to digest lactose. Formative research: get sense of general nutritional problem.
