LECTURE 1 - MAY 9 - Cannibalism / Taboos Flashcards
1
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CLARK - FORGET THE IDEA THAT FOOD =
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CULTURE
2
Q
CLARK - Food is not culture. Food is steeped -
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in power and inequity
3
Q
CLARK - 3 main points
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- there is no food outside of culture 2. No value-free / objective way to define food (but if you remove “power relations” all that’s left is commodity fetishism) 3. There is no way to separate food and ideology (race/class/gender)
4
Q
CLARK - Delanay quote
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Food is connected to space and time / language / emotions
5
Q
CLARK - Delaney - Food is full of ____ metaphors
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sexual
6
Q
CLARK - food doesn’t “represent” idea, it …
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PRODUCES it
7
Q
CLARK - Both Douglas & Janes work with
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classifications
8
Q
CLARK - Beard and Simmons =
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racists who don’t cite
9
Q
CLARK - not “symbolize” but …
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PRODUCE via representation
