ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Revolution, Luxury Goods, Staple Food

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Georgia Hartman

Document Summary

Anthro 41a lecture notes week 3: sugar, taste, and power. Lecture 1: sugar consumption and meaning in 12th-19th century britain. ~practices we link to these have meaning (the things and the meaning) ~meaning/practice around a thing varies across social/cultural class. History of sugar consumption in britain from 12th-19th century. Will examine how/why culture of sugar consumption changed during these periods. Capacity as human to endow things with meaning. Trace way meaning and practice are taken up/how they change. Ritualization: incorporation and symbolic reinvestment of new material into cultural practice. Intensification: kind of ritualization wherein consumption of new material replicates already existing practices. Extensification: kind of ritualization wherein consumption of new material increasingly greater/frequent. The cultural meanings and practices of sugar consumption in britain and colonies. ~can shed light on social organization and dynamics of power in a society. ~where lower classes adopt/emulate cultural practice of upper class. +not british colonies at the time so it was expensive.