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Description
Thinking about eating often leads to thinking about people and their social world. Why is there a burgeoning interest in food studies across many disciplines? More central is the universal appeal of food to all of us. Daily life is signposted by gaining food-stuffs, by food preparation and consumption, by meal times, by making dates to eat together. This attention to food is due to a concern about the body, existence and identity, directly related to incorporation and corporeality. This interest engages with satiation, sensation and well-being. We like to feel good, and eating helps this. But food also is highly emotive and conflicting. Wars are fought over food. By looking at archaeological examples of meals and food production, we can trace not only people’s foodways but also their feelings about their landscape and social world?
Christine Hastorf
Christine Hastorf focuses on social life, political change, agricultural production, foodways, and the methodologies that lead to a better understanding of the past through the study of plant-use. She has written on agricultural production, cooking practices and what shifts in these suggest about social relations, gender relations surrounding plant use, the rise of complex society, political change and the symbolic use of plants in the legitimation of authority, fuel use and related symbolism, and plant domestication as part of social identity construction and ritual and social identity. She is particularly interested in wild plant use as compared to domesticates, identifying the stages in plant processing, their participation in social construction, and especially their participation and reflection of the symbolic and the political, in addition to the playing out of the concept of culture in the natural world. http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/christine-hastorf
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