Semiotics
Commodities
Social Connections
Abominations
Smorgasbord
100

Unlike roasting or smoking, this food preparation method is closer to "rotten," per Levi-Strauss

Boiling

100

This commodity was used as a preservative, a medicine, and a seasoning

Sugar

100

The two kinds of sauce

Thick and thin

100
Cloven-footed, cud chewing animals provided these four benefits to the ancient Israelites.
Meat, milk, dung, and 'traction' (useful in agriculture)
100

The belief that your own culture is the best one

ethnocentrism

200

Foods (or words) considered more "basic" are also called this -- in contrast with foods (or words) that are more distinctive

Marked

200

A white latex used in vegetarian cheese and leather goods comes from this fruit

Papaya

200

A container of food prepared by Japanese mothers for their kids

Obento

200

The manner of animal locomotion that is abominable across all spheres (land, sea, and air)

Swarming

200

The colloquial word for when something edible is placed between two edible carbohydrates

Sandwich

300

In Zumbagua, Ecuador, Mishqui (or sweet/tasty) is opposed to jayaj, which means this.

Hot, spicy; also exotic, condiment

300

This anthropologist (associated with material culture and historical anthropology) researched the relation between colonialism and the Industrial Revolution

Sidney Mintz

300

The country where Subanun is located (where the beer drinking happened)

the Phillippines

300
Associated with structuralism, this anthropologist argued that pigs did not fit the symbolic categories of the ancient Israelites
(Dame) Mary Douglas
300

The days of Professor Leinaweaver's office hours, to which you are cordially invited to pop in!

Tues and Weds

400

In "Deciphering a Meal," the "social universe" with whom you will share this is larger than the "social universe" with whom you will share a meal.

Drinks

400

A lack of access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods

Food insecurity

400

The word meaning "bread" or "gift" or "candy" in the Quichua language spoken in Zumbagua, Ecuador

Wanlla

400

Associated with "cultural materialism," this anthropologist argues that pigs were prohibited for ecological and economic reasons

Marvin Harris

400

The discipline (academic department) that Prof. Leinaweaver teaches in

Anthropology

500

This describes a sign with multiple meanings (e.g. apple = NYC, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, the food you give a teacher)

Polysemic

500

The conceptual disconnection of objects and the people and work that produced them

"Commodity Fetishism"

500

"A system of social relationships that are expressed in a biological idiom”

Kinship (or Relatedness)

500
The "vital essence" that every member of the Hua culture in Papua New Guinea has

Nu

500

The real (or formal) name of the Ratty

Sharpe Refectory

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