Food plays an important role in our culture and relationships. Instructors:
Prof. Heather Paxson MIT Course Number:
21A.265 Level: Undergraduate Course Features
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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.
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.
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