ANTH208-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Food and Eating

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 6 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 22 May 2015

Description

This course explores the food chain, from production, through consumption, to exchange and considers the ways in which food is implicated in the reproduction of and resistance to, inequalities of class, gender, ethnicity and nationalism.

The course is designed to offer an overview of a number of inter-related anthropological/sociological approaches to the analysis of food and eating, and to the relationship between food and other aspects of social and cultural life. A variety of theoretical approaches that have sought to explain this relationship are examined and compared with each other. The course looks into the different ways in which researchers have sought to analyse the practical as well as the symbolic components of food and eating, and introduces students to the ways in which these approaches may be applied to the analysis of similar issues in contemporary New Zealand society.

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this course will:
1. Become familiar with the styles of analysis of food and eating as these have been applied in sociology and socio-cultural anthropology, and develop an appreciation of the social nature and significance of food (and drink).
2. Learn to recognise the political and other social implications of food and eating.
3. Acquire some of the theoretical tools relevant to an anthropological or sociological analysis of food and eating, enabling them to grasp the nature of the relationship between different kinds of social activities and processes, and between food, culture and society.

Prerequisites

15 points of ANTH at 100 level. Students with at least a B average in 30 points of appropriate courses may be admitted with the approval of the Anthropology Programme Director

Restrictions

GEND224, ANTH308, SOCI262, GEND324, SOCI362

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Patrick McAllister

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Lecture attendance 10%
Tutorial 15% Attendance and participation
Article summary/review 15% 500 words. Due Friday, Week 8
2000 words 30% Due Friday, Week 10
Weekly Journal 30% Minimum 300 words per week

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $697.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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