ANTB64H3 Lecture 12: Antb64 Lecture 12
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Picture showing a portrayal of food and the meaning in a particular context. We need to eat and drink to stay alive. We cook food, create taste, tell stories- moral and mythical. Exchange; beliefs and distribution and consumption of food. Focused a place of gender race and class on current and past food systems. Food is something we eat and something we are. Scholars and their articles- approaches to culture in a linguistic point of view. Taking that kind of approach to culture and applying it to food. Food systems communicated and in terms orders. Barthes- different meanings of food in culture ex- sugar in america. Ideas you can take and figure out what the system is: looked at ads of foods in france, ideas of tradition. Levi strauss- culinary triangle: trying to find the deep, deep order behind food systems universally.
