Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Food, Self, and Society
Instructor(s): Kenji Tierney, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
This course examines the relationship between food, the self and society both in
the United States and throughout the globe. If eating is the act of taking the world
into our bodies, are you what you eat, don't eat, or how you eat? Is every bite you
take a vote for a certain world? Drawing on cultural roles of food throughout the
world, students will consider various approaches to food through an examination of
current topics such as globalization, the environment, genetically modified foods,
vegetarianism/veganism, the "obesity crisis" and disordered consumption. Students
will also examine numerous perspectives including anthropology, sociology, women's
studies, psychology, history, literature, popular memoirs and mass media.
Course Offered