ANT208H5 Lecture 8: Food
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The way it is packed and becomes a focal point. Food becomes a focal point: they have a character of the region, the regional foods are part of it. Japanese fast food: the author is drawing on ethnographic research, provides a time for the family which is highly valued, there is a gender dynamics. The father is playing with the children (alone time with them) French la rotie: food being used as a right of passage, right of passage is a ritual that marks the movement of people from one social status to another. Ex: un married to married: to overturn the bed. Thursday, august 4, 2016: provides a opportunity to talk about the city, class, food marks social distinctions, cultural marker. Barbecue: comes from indigos people from cuba, adopted by the europeans and then becomes nationalized, way of eating that links to social gathering, gender roles.
