Food Theory
Sidney Mintz describes the political and cultural associations attached to food consumption through what global commodity?
Coca-Cola
"Other people of European origin who they had known — mostly Portuguese colonists — had not only refused to eat snails, they had cast the practice as disgusting, even primitive." Their judgement is a result of this.
ethnocentrism
The sharing of food and drink (eating together).
commensality
Obento school lunches represents a system of ideas and ideals about the state, gender and nature in this city.
Tokyo
Roland Barthes delves into the symbolic meanings of food, how it reflects cultural values, and how food can act as a form of this.
communication
This qualitative research method in anthropology involves immersive fieldwork, where researchers immerse themselves in a culture to observe and document social interactions, customs, and beliefs.
ethnography
This social practice is often mediated by food and involves a negotiation of relations between a host and stranger.
hospitality
The adoption of sugar as a global commodity shaped and changed food consumption habits in this country (according to Sidney Mintz).
Britain
This anthropologist describes the symbolic meanings and social structures surrounding a meal.
Mary Douglas
This method in anthropology involves analyzing similarities and differences between cultures without ranking them against each other.
comparative method
The 'grand changes'--including economic, social and political conditions--that set the terms against which people impart personal significance to food.
outside meaning
In the specialty coffee market, there is an effort to connect producers with consumers through narratives that highlight the stories of growers, such as this country.
Papua New Guinea
In his work on the culinary triangle, Levi-Strauss interprets food preparation (raw, rotten and cooked) through the relationship between what two concepts?
nature and culture
The seven attributes of culture.
Shared, learned, symbolic, dynamic, integrated, shapes everybody’s life, generates ethnocentrism
The late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu contrasted the food preferences (or 'tastes') of the French middle class and working class, arguing that food served as a means of creating this.
social distinction
Masculinity is not associated with meat in this Greek island, illustrating that culture is diverse and changing, even within a single country.
Kalymnos