ANTHROPOLOGY 365: FOOD AND CULTURE*

Condon Hall

Winter 1998

 

 

 

 READING ASSIGNMENTS

 

Section I: Human Diet in Biological and Evolutionary Perspective

 The human diet in evolutionary perspective

A. Nonhuman Primate heritage

1. Milton, K. 1987 Primate diets and gut morphology: implications for hominid evolution. In Food and evolution: Toward a Theory of human food habits. M. Harris and E.B. Ross, eds. Temple Univ. Press Pp. 93-116.

2. Lieberman, L. 1987 Biocultural consequences of animals versus plants as sources of fats, proteins and other nutrients. In: Food and evolution: Toward a Theory of human food habits. M. Harris and E.B. Ross, eds. Temple Univ. Press Pp. 225-258.

 

B. Hominid Dietary Patterns: The Fossil Record and the Paleolithic Prescription.

1.Gordon, K. D. 1987 Evolutionary perspectives on human diet. In: Nutritional Anthropology F. E. Johnston (ed). A.R. Liss, N.Y. Pp3-40.

2.Eaton, S. B., M. Shostak and M. Konner. 1988 The Paleolithic Prescription. Chap. 4. The Stone Age Diet. (p. 69-87). Harper & Row Publisher.

3. Eaton, S. B., M. Shostak and M. Konner. 1988 The Paleolithic Prescription. Chap.3: The Discordance Hypothesis (p 38-68) Harper & Row Publisher (Knight ).

C. The Human Diet in Biological Perspective: Crash course in human nutrition. (Knight Library Reserve) Rischer, C.E. and T. A. Easton 1995 Focus on Human Biology. Harper Collins Publ.

Chapter 21: The Digestive System. Pp. 398-416
Chapter 23: Nutrition. Pp. 435-455.
Chapter 22: Energy Metabolism. Pp. 417- 434.  

 

 

Section II: human diet in cultural and evolutionary perspective

 Food Production Systems

A. Seeds of Change/ World Wide Distribution of Cultigens/ Dietary Revolutions and Three Food Transitions.

1. Sociology on The Menu. Beardsworth, A. And T. Keil.

Part I: The Social Dimensions of the Food System:

B. Lock and key hypothesis & World wide distribution of cultigens.

1. Katz, S. 1987 Food and Biocultural Evolution: A Model For the Investigation of Modern Nutritional Problems. In Nutritional Anthropology. F.E. Johnston (ed). A. R. Liss, Inc., N.Y. Pp 41-63.

 

C. Food Classification.

1. Sociology on the Menu:

2. Kahn, M. 1986 Always Hungry, Never Greedy. Waveland Press: Prospect heights, Ill.

 

D. Contemporary Eating Patterns.

1. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y

2. Sociology on the Menu:

a. Chapter 5: Eating Out (pp. 100-124)

 

 

Section III: Food, body and culture

A. Human growth and development: Crash course:

1. Relethford, J. H. 1994 The Human Species. Chapter 14 Human Growth. Mayfield Publ. Co.:CA. (knight library reserve)

2. Frisancho, A.R. 1993 Human Adaptation and Accommodation. University of Michigan Press.

Chapter:
a. Accommodation to acute and chronic malnutrition during growth. PP 357-380
b. Obesity: Accommodation and adaptation to variability in dietary supply. PP.427

 

B. Cultural construction of the healthy diet

1. Sociology on the Menu:

a. Chapter 6: Changing Conceptions of Diet and Health. (Pp. 125-149)
b. Chapter 7: Food Risks, Anxieties and Scares. (Pp 150- 172)

2. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y.

  

C. Anthropological approach to Malnutrition: PCM, Obesity, Eating disorders.

1. Sociology on the Menu.

Chapter 8: Dieting, Fat and Body Image. (Pp. 173-192)

2. Czajka-Narins, D. and E. Parkham. 1990 Fear of fat: Attitudes toward obesity. Nutrition Today 25: 26-32.
3. Berg, F. 1995 Eating Disorders Affect Both Mind and Body.
Healthy Weight Journal. March/April 1995.

 

Section IV: Food, commodification and scarcity

 

A. Defining and identifying hunger: Cultural constructions and Biological dimensions

1. Poppendieck, J. Hunger in America: Typification and Response. In: Eating Agendas. Pp.11- 34.

2. Fitchen, J.M. 1988 Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary United States: Some observations on their social and cultural context. Food and Foodways 2:309-333.

3. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y.

4. Foster, P. 1992 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition. In: The World Food Problem. Lynne Rienner Publ: Boulder. Pp. 203-216.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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