ANTHROP 1AA3 Final: Anthro - Mar 22:26 (Lecture and Textbook)
18 Apr 2018
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The last 500 or so years has created a situation for us in which we eat a large variety of food; most of. Most of the foods we consume are the by-product of cross-cultural trade and contact our (cid:498)staples(cid:499) are not originally from this part of the world and/or they cannot be grown here sugar, We"ve developed a dependency on a specific range of products that are not available in our own culture/part of the world coffee, tomatoes etc. Anthropologists look at particular foods/products around the world. Also like to study how western dependencies on/obsessions with certain products affect other. Etc. exploiting labor, for causing health problems: ex. Coke; reviled in some nations for using poor quality water to process the product, for. Throughout latin america and other areas of the developing world, tourism has become a means for generating foreign capital.
