ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fat Fetishism, Food Play, Nyotaimori
23 Apr 2017
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What is a fetish: excessive or irrational commitment, sexual where abnormal grati cation is linked to a particular object. Act of watching someone eat/be fed, can be sexual or non sexual. Change in ideas about the role of food. Greater exposure and discussion/ decrease in taboos on behaviour. Commodities = things that acquire value in a culture and can be bought and sold in a capitalist/ market economy. They become perceived as a necessary part of our lives. Are signi ers of identities like gender, class, status etc. We often use or manipulate commodities to cultivate our identities: women and purses. It becomes easy to overlook how our consumption habits affect others around the world, or how our habits have global effects. Moreover, it is often dif cult for us to change our consumption habits. Most of the foods we consumer the by product of cross cultural trade and contact.
