Chapter One: Production
From time immemorial when God purportedly tossed Adam and Eve out of Paradise, then cursed Adam to scrabble in the dust for his sustenance to the post-modern era where public outcry against the inhumane factory farming of animals and the rise of the mega-farm with all of the associated horrors of its overuse of chemicals and monoculturalism has become the norm, acquiring enough satisfactory food to feed ourselves and those whom we love has been the most basic, and yet the most perilous, task set before humankind. The inhabitants of the medieval period were indeed no strangers to this task. As a result it is impossible to discuss the food of any period, to include the medieval period, without discussing its production… (tag on prospectus here)…
Introduction/Methodology Notes:
First it would be wise to address the concept that the branch of anthropology dealing with material culture is the bête noir of folkore. Why should it be? Can’t the same questions be asked and answered by both fields to the benefit of both field? Does the use of different methodologies to …show more content…
According to [repasts], foodways can be used symbolically, to stand for something other than itself, an offering of some meaningful communication to be understood by those familiar with it; it can be used as a bit of “reality,” often called “local color;” or it can be used to offer the audience a little piece of the familiar, or “home,” when they are far
From time immemorial when God purportedly tossed Adam and Eve out of Paradise, then cursed Adam to scrabble in the dust for his sustenance to the post-modern era where public outcry against the inhumane factory farming of animals and the rise of the mega-farm with all of the associated horrors of its overuse of chemicals and monoculturalism has become the norm, acquiring enough satisfactory food to feed ourselves and those whom we love has been the most basic, and yet the most perilous, task set before humankind. The inhabitants of the medieval period were indeed no strangers to this task. As a result it is impossible to discuss the food of any period, to include the medieval period, without discussing its production… (tag on prospectus here)…
Introduction/Methodology Notes:
First it would be wise to address the concept that the branch of anthropology dealing with material culture is the bête noir of folkore. Why should it be? Can’t the same questions be asked and answered by both fields to the benefit of both field? Does the use of different methodologies to …show more content…
According to [repasts], foodways can be used symbolically, to stand for something other than itself, an offering of some meaningful communication to be understood by those familiar with it; it can be used as a bit of “reality,” often called “local color;” or it can be used to offer the audience a little piece of the familiar, or “home,” when they are far