Anthroplogy 25b - d.Tasting Hierarchies:Food in Latin America

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2007. KRISTA VAN VLEET. Food generates meanings and feelings beyond a full stomach. This is well known by anthropologists who have studied the symbolic significance of food in a variety of cultures. Course uses case studies from Latin America to explore how food produces social relationships. From the daily practices of eating and feeding that create familial bonds and bodies in the Andes, to the diagnosis of hunger as "nerves" in Brazil, to the global circulation of sugarthrough networks of power and deprivation in the Caribbean, food in Latin America is implicated in political as well as cultural and social relations. Class discussion and writing based on readings of ethnographies, scholarly articles, and novels and the viewing of documentary and feature films. Focusing on the local practices and transnational relationships of producing, exchanging, and consuming food, examines how food reinforces and transforms political, economic, and social hierarchies. (Same as Latin American Studies 25.)

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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