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Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective

Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective. We have to eat; we like to eat. A profoundly social urge: food is almost always shared. Nutrition plays only a small part in our food choices.

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Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective

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  1. Food and Eating:An Anthropological Perspective

  2. We have to eat; we like to eat

  3. A profoundly social urge:food is almost always shared

  4. Nutrition plays only a small part in our food choices

  5. All cultures go to considerable lengths to obtain preferred foods; ignore valuable food sources close at hand

  6. What we eat becomes a most powerful symbol of who we are

  7. Food identification:ethnic, religious, class

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