INQ-277 | Foodways in History: Meals, Memory, and Migration

Crosslisted As: HIST277

Topic Description:

This Intensive Learning course asks us to think about food as a vehicle for studying human history and the meaning that people attach to that history. How does food and the rituals associated with its production and consumption create community and sustain community identity when people migrate? We will study several key diasporas, including Sephardic Jews, Chinese, and Mexican communities and learn about how their foodways sustained their identities, facilitated or hindered their assimilation in new places, and how those same foodways were adapted by other communities in an increasingly globalized world of food and meaning.

Course Types Offered: On-Campus

Topic Approved: September 2011