ANTH 352

Food and Body Politic

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of food. The course examines food and food-ways as products of soil, culture and politics. The study of food reveals much about social relations (family, gender and work) as well as national and international health, economic and environmental policy. Students will consider the forces that have shaped the food system and our daily food choices, or lack there of. In particular, the course traces the evolution of the industrial food system in America and the impact this system has on our health, identity, environment, worker's rights, natural resources, animals, crop diversity and more

Units: 3.0