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SUMMARY:The Social Life of Food - Tamara L. Bray\, Wayne State University
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CONTACT:Akshyeta Suryanarayan
DESCRIPTION:In this paper\, I argue for the importance of incorporating co
 ncerns with the materiality of food in anthropologically oriented studies.
  Historically\, the symbolic and communicative dimensions of foods and eat
 ing practices have received greater attention than the substantive matter 
 of food and the ways in which it acts upon both the individual and the soc
 ial body. Rather than approaching food as a passive substance\, it is impo
 rtant that we think about the capacities of foods—as active and key elem
 ents within broader relational networks—to generate not only biological 
 effects but public and social ones as well. I develop some of these ideas 
 here and illustrate with several examples drawn from the realm of the late
  pre-Columbian Andes.\n\nThe link to join the lecture online is here: http
 s://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3693237776111?p=raZyEwVDtKHkBu2fP9
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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