Desire and Danger: Food, Drink and Drugs in Anthropological Perspective

Dozent/in	Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Smith
Veranstaltungsart	Proseminar
Code	HS211204
Semester	Herbstsemester 2021
Durchführender Fachbereich	Ethnologie
Studienstufe	Bachelor
Termin/e	wöchentlich (Mo), ab 27.09.2021, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 3 wöchentlich (Mo), ab 06.12.2021, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, ZOOM
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus	wöchentlich
Inhalt	Food, drink and drugs are fundamental necessities of survival, but are also suffused with rich cultural and social meanings, and ethical, and religious, as well as economic values. This course will focus on the central place of these comestibles in daily life, and social relationships, at local and global levels. Ingestible substances often provoke desire, providing pleasure and the basis for shared sociality, but can also be deemed dangerous, disgusting, immoral and anti-social. Drawing on foundational texts in anthropology, as well as contemporary case studies, we will examine ideas and practices surrounding food, drink and drugs from symbolic, social, and political economic perspectives. We will consider different foodstuffs and intoxicants in the context of issues such as ethnic and religious identities and practices; class, race and inequality; health, addiction and disorder; crime and regulation; colonialism and globalization; mass production and industrialisation; and social movements.
Sprache	Englisch
Abschlussform / Credits	Aktive Teilnahme / 4 Credits
Hörer-/innen	Ja
Kontakt	rachel.smith@unilu.ch