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  #1 Bonnie Sutton on 19 Mar 12

   

  Food and Culture
  As taught in: Spring 2011
  A photograph of a child eating dim sum.
  http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-265-food-and-culture-spring-2011/
  
  Food plays an important role in our culture and relationships.
  Instructors:
  
  Prof. Heather Paxson
  MIT Course Number:
  
  21A.265
  Level:
  Undergraduate
  Course Features
  
  Assignments (no solutions)
  
  Course Description
  
  Explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal identities and social groups are formed via food production, preparation, and consumption. Organized around critical discussion of what makes "good" food good (healthy, authentic, ethical, etc.). Uses anthropological and literary classics as well as recent writing and films on the politics of food and agriculture.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Food and Culture <br /> As taught in: Spring 2011 <br /> A photograph of a child eating dim sum. <br /> <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-265-food-and-culture-spring-2011/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-265-food-and-culture-spring-2011/</a> <br /> <br /> Food plays an important role in our culture and relationships. <br /> Instructors: <br /> <br /> Prof. Heather Paxson <br /> MIT Course Number: <br /> <br /> 21A.265 <br /> Level: <br /> Undergraduate <br /> Course Features <br /> <br /> Assignments (no solutions) <br /> <br /> Course Description <br /> <br /> Explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal identities and social groups are formed via food production, preparation, and consumption. Organized around critical discussion of what makes "good" food good (healthy, authentic, ethical, etc.). Uses anthropological and literary classics as well as recent writing and films on the politics of food and agriculture.</div>

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