KS400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Douglas, A. A. Gill

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What time and place=, and to what purpose is the meal. What are the circles of intimacy employed. What socioreligious orders and hierarchies are present in the food/meal and its meaning. Food and the meaning in which we clothe it, is a central aspect of culture. Discourses of foods and eating are major displays of cultural values. Food, eati(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:862)ta(cid:271)le(cid:863) are e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374)s of (cid:272)ulture, ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d ethos. The(cid:455) are (cid:271)oth (cid:448)ehi(cid:272)le(cid:859)s and product of culture. Understanding food is as varied as any other aspect of culture as (cid:862)(cid:448)aried as hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455) itself(cid:863) (norman, 411) Approaching foodways as complex systems of meaning. Example: claude l vi-strauss and the categories of eating (cid:862) a(cid:449)(cid:863), (cid:862)cooked(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862) otte(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:862)cooki(cid:374)g is a la(cid:374)guage through (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455) re(cid:448)eals its stru(cid:272)ture. Av: aa gill on (cid:862)the meaning of food(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)6(cid:895) Food critic aa gill on what food means.

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