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ANT 3375 - Food Cultures



Credits: 3

Description: This course is an exploration of how food procurement, dietary practices, ideologies of consumption, and food celebrations across cultures are related to varying environments, subsistence strategies, moral sensibilities, socioeconomic and political conditions, social identities, and social hierarchies. Using an anthropological approach, students examine how the ideological, emotional, symbolic, aesthetic, and social value of food and its marketing varies across cultures. In addition, course materials introduce students to the politics and social movements revolving around ethical food procurement and food as a human right.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or NUT.

General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences I, Global Diversity

Cross Listed Course(s): NUT 3375



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