What is food?

Physical anthropology

Also called biological anthropology physical anthropology is the study of human evolution and variation both past and current

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Biological heritage: taste buds like sweet and avoid bitter Individual experience Culture: learn from peers what's good and bad to eat

Data analysis

Content or text analysis where we can identify and count themes. Social network analysis which looks at relationships between people are other thing.

Structural approaches

Focus on the Waze which people organize themselves and their surroundings. As far as food people might be interested in the way we prepare food or rules about who eats first

Political economy approach

Focuses on the ways that economic systems integrate with power usually at the level of the nation state. Because most of us purchase food at the store these foods are part of massively large systems that make people a lot of money.

What is food

Food is dependent on our culture and where we grew up

Archaeology

Look at material things left behind including plant remains to decide what people eat. For example ceramics tell a lot.

Evolutionary anthropology

Look at remains to see food history, For example teeth are a key indicator of what food things were eating. Isotope analysis is also important.

Culture

Peoples learning and shared behaviors and beliefs

Evolutionary approach

Primarily focus on psychological changes in the role of food and nutrition in the biological evolution of humans

Environment and globalization

The environment has possibly been the most important factor that shapes and limits what and how we can eat. Globalization also affects the availability of food and wet food people choose to eat in the world

Symbolic approaches

The focus of these approaches us on symbols that is cultural phenomenon and the processes such as myths and rituals that surround symbols. For example apple pie is an important American food

Linguistic anthropology

The study of language especially how language is structured evolution of language and the social and cultural context for language

Archaeology

The study of passage societies and their cultures especially the material remains of the past such as tools food and places were people left

Cultural and linguistic anthropology

They rely on ethnographic methods to learn about people. These methods are designed to learn about people and how they live their lives. One method is to live with participants and observe what they're doing and participate in their lives.

Biocultural approach

Traditionally focused on diet as a measure of health and adaptation, cultural anthropologist focus on traditionally on foodways in culture social and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food. They have come together to do research such as rapidly increasing obesity

Culture Anthropology

study of human society and culture