ANTHROP 4CP3 Lecture 1: Sept 12
18 Dec 2019
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Food choices used to be related in some ways to availability: food choices and eating habits reveal distinction of age, sex, status, culture, and. Sept 12 even occupation: why do certain cultures eat together, even symbolically eat w gods or ancestors (praying) Mintz is less concerned w meals but w mealtimes how meals were adapted to modern industrial society. Q: what constitutes good food is a social not biological matter. Sucrose + fructose = not good: wasn"t until after the christian era/crusades. From the middle east to certain mediterranean islands, to the new world: at these times, sugar was still a luxury, a medicine, a spice in w europe. Sugar plantains (slaves: sugar cane liquid gold, the role played by the state, favoured child of capitalism. Turning point for british sugar was the settlement of barbados in 1627: sugar steadily changed from being a specialized medicinal, continental, like tea, sugar came to define english character.
