World foods: anthropological tastes

City Lit

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course is about the social and cultural meanings attributed to food, taste and its rituals in a cross-cultural, anthropological perspective.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

Describe relationships between food and society
Explain the difference between biological act of eating and the social meanings associated with food and conviviality
Summarise different food traditions cross-comparatively
Illustrate food traditions linking ingredients to food processing techniques.

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Course programme

The course will cover food symbolism, the interaction between ecology and taste, social dimensions of eating, conviviality, and religious avoidances, ritual food behaviour, and food taboos in order to dispel the idea that food is just nourishment.

The course is run through a mix of teaching methods, which include lectures, slide presentations, film clips, group work, question and answer, brainstorming sessions, the use of charts, and class discussion.

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Please see prospectus or website. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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