2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ANTH 322 - Food, Culture, and the Environment


CR: 3
Prerequisite: A 100- or 200-level course in ANTH or ARCH. This course covers the origins of food production and changing foodways over time and across geographical regions. The place of food in human prehistory and history, ritual and family life, and in the global economy will be examined. The course will investigate issues such as food shortages, hunger and famine, and food security in the contemporary world; the implications of food biotechnology and GMOs; and food movements such as slow food, organic, and local foods. Offered alternate years. May be counted toward the major or minor in archaeology. V.4



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