University of Toronto at Scarborough Division of Social Sciences
 
The Anthropology of Food
 

 Ant. C64H Spring 2003

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     R5237 Ph. 287-7345
     email: burton@scar.utoronto.ca
     Office Hours: Wed 10-2
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Course Description:
The role of food as nutrient and its social significance as symbol constitute the theme of this course. Topics to be addressed include human dietary needs and the myth of meat, the "meal", traditional dietaries, medicine and food, the green revolution, and global undernutrition.One or two field trips will explore the diversity of foodstuffs in Toronto, their origins, diffusion and meanings.
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WEBSITES:
 Content                            Location
Cultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition http://www.nal.usda.gov
Self-analysis main page www6.phys.com/adsupplement/phys/self-analysis
Nutrition phys.com/a_home/01home/home.htm
Food & Agric, Org. {UN} http://www.fao.org
Epicurious http://www.epicurious.com
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Best source  www.iuns.org
U. Penn. Museum  http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineneolithic.html
Food museum - persimmon  http://www.swcp.com/hughes/persim.htm
Food museum - general  http://www.foodmuseum.com/hughes/foodlist.htm
bibliog - food use world wide  http://www.ilstu.edu/class/anth273-foodways/foodbib.html
Am. Anth.Org.Counc. Nutrit. Anthrop.  http://www.ameranthassn.org/
Gallery of Ethnobiology, University of Georgia  http://guallart.dac.uga.edu/
Univ. Calif.Davis-list of lists  http://www-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/
Tufts Univ. guide to reliable sites http://navigator.tufts.edu/index.html
Canada's health info. http://www.medbroadcast.com
USDA food analysis http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Consultative Grp. on Int. Agric. Res. cgiar.org
Int. Food Policy Res. Inst.  [check IFPRI.org
Food safety site with info. on  GM foods  www.foodbiotech.org
Plant gene resources of Canada http://res2.agr.ca/saskatoon/prog/pgrc-rpc_e.htm
The Seed Exchange http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/exseed/
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