ANT EXAM #2

Culinary Anthropology

The study of food within human culture

Substance system to get our food

Hunting and Gathering:

Pastoralism:

Horticulture:

Agriculture:

Lee Cronk

The author of Reciprocity and the power of Giving .the cycle of giving and returning

Need for food is

Universal and physical

Steve Striffer

Author of Chicken, an ethnography that describes how chicken is seen as the Healthy, American, Affordable, but those meaning are constructed by media.

Culinary anthropology

• Food is tied To who we are

• Exposes how food reflect class ( who produces profit vs who produces food)

• Shows how global trade, migration and technology are interconnected

• Shows tat food shape human life

Slash and Burning Method

1- cut small areas of forest

2- burn th vegetarian to make fertil soil

3- plants crops

4- then move to a new area when soil loses nutrients ( suteinable to a small scale)

Intensive agriculture

Type of farming that produces max amount of food to the industry

• Uses large fertilizers

• Mechanization

• Animals raised in confined spaces ( raises environment issues)

Variety in intensive agriculture

• Size of lands

• How cultivators gain access to land

• Degree of mechanization

• Degree of commercialization

• Vulnerable to nature

Impact our foood

• Vulnerable

• Vulnerable to illness

• Removed from food product

• Avaibility va trade and globalization

• Genetic engineering : direct manipulation of an organization

Economics system

The estructures of resources, conditions of productions, distributions and consumption of goos and services in a country area or period.

Labor custom

Their work, who works why works and how

Natural resources

Materials provided by nature

How people get resources

Comunal, temporal, private property, state

Division of labor

Gender, skills, age, division of labor

Samhain

An agent festival Celtic. That marked the end of the harvest season. This festivity di lugar a halloween