6-0575 FOOD AND IDENTITY: ARE WE WHAT WE EAT?

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 12:15-14:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Kenneth C Maes (Brown University)

Chairs: Michael A Lange (Champlain College)

12:15

Sugarhouse Arena: Maple Syrup Producers Negotiating Identity In Bounded Space

Michael A Lange (Champlain College)

12:30

Food Consumption and Morality: Eating Locally to Save the Planet

Tabitha Y Steager (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

12:45

“You Can’t Eat Nuts and Bolts”: The Hare Krishna Diet As a Refusal of Capitalist Consumption

Nicole Berger (Princeton University)

13:00

Food Not Lawns: Understanding a Food Subculture As a Force of Social Change

Monica Argandona (University of California, Riverside) and Enriqueta Cervantes (University of La Verne)

13:15

A Taste of Nostalgia, A Taste of Difference: An Analysis of Cultural Food Colonialism and Culinary Tourism

Melinda Mills (Castleton State College)

13:30

Gardens of Good and Evil: Organically Produced Foods In Context of Personal Health, Environmental Concerns, and Human Rights

Elizabeth J McGee (University of Memphis)

13:45

Cultural Knowledge of Food and Environmental Barriers to Nutrition In African American Communities

Douglas A Monroe (University of Florida), M. Miaisha Mitchell (Greater Frenchtown Revitalization Council), Qasimah P. Boston (Florida A&M University) and Clarence C Gravlee (University of Florida)

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