ANTHROP 2AN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shabbat, Wartime Farm, Sustainability
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Diet: the intake of nutritional components like proteins, carbohydrates, etc. Cuisine: particular styles of food preparation and cooking. Food ways: shared cuisine, eating styles, and behaviours common to a group of people. Food and- materialist approaches: marvin and cultural materialism, cultural systems and behaviours evolved as adaptations to material needs , food systems evolved to meet nutritional needs within particular ecological limits. Food and culture, ideology, symbolism and social power: symbols to define ethic, class, cultural, and gender groups, symbols to define relationships between people. Important part of religious beliefs: shabbath: and the bread and wine (judaism, food ways are imbued with social meaning. Negotiation of power between producers and consumers: distribution, often related to political and economic organization. Gifts, exchange, feasts, festivals, markets: food is often differentially allocated among different members of society, e. g. elites vs. commoners, males vs. females.