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Cultural and Behavioral Determinants
Sidney MintzJohns Hopkins University
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Sidney Mintz
� Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology
� Fieldwork in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti, Iran, and Hong Kong
� Publications include Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History; Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past; The World of Soy
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Section A
Culture and Food Patterns
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Main Points
1.
How culture—rather than nature—provides the human background for food choice
2.
What is meant when we speak of “natural food”?
3.
What does “natural human food”
really mean?
4.
Whether a basic human cuisine has evolved in broad outline in human history
5.
Where protein fits into the overall picture of human food choice
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Culture
Photo by Ryan Somma
via flickr.com. Creative Commons BY-SA.
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Human Food Choices
� Historical—not biological� For example, fire made previously inedible foods edible�
Graminiae
(rice, maize, wheat)
�
Leguminosae
(legumes, pulses, beans)
�
Araceae
(taro, yautia
or tannia)
�
Solonaceae
(tomato, potato)
�
Convolvulaceae
(sweet potatoes)
�
Dioscoraceae
(yams)
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Humans Have the Capacity to Create Culture
� Technological changes by humans� All animals have natural histories� Humans have natural histories + histories of our own making� For example, human language�
In contrast to built-in capacity to learn and speak a language
�
No language is “natural”
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Is There Such a Thing As a “Natural”
Food?
� No foods are “natural”�
Maybe mother’s milk?
�
Maybe sweetness?� Biological predisposition toward fat?� Umami?
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Human Food Choices Are Historical
� Development of food behaviors depended on various natural constraints, such as�
Locality
�
Seasons�
Flora and fauna
�
Economic and sociological organizations developed by the people
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If It Can Be Eaten, Someone Eats It!
False Morels. Public Domain.
Fugu in Tank by Chris 73. Some rights reserved.
Whopper. Public DomainImage source: USGS.
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Humans Do Not Eat Everything Available To Them
Image source: USDA.
Public Domain.
Image source: USDA.
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Food Is Saturated with Symbolic (Extrinsic) Meaning
Hafiz. Prince Entertained on a Terrace. Public Domain.
Seder Plate. Public Domain.
Tailgating by MaxPower. Some rights reserved.
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From Hunter-Gatherers to Domesticators
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Domestication of Animals
� Capturing of reproductive processes� Not just “taming” for human use and interaction� Continuity of reproduction� Human interference by breeding
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Domestication of Food Production
� Ordinary people undertook the science of agriculture
Public Domain
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Processes of Animal Domestication
� Isolating reproduction� Limiting sphere of movement� Interfering with feeding patterns
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Important Role of Domestication and Agriculture
� Increased food security� Led to population growth� Facilitated spread of human species� Most humans were born after domestication of plants and
animals
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Agricultural “Hearths”
� Examples �
Nile Valley
�
South Asia�
Andes
�
Mexican Central Plateau� For further exploration�
N. Vavilov: Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants
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E. Anderson: Plants, Man, and Life
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Agricultural Hearths—Patterns
� Began with core complex carbohydrate (cereal or tuber) � Paired with legume or pulse (chickpea, bean, peanut,
soybean)� Complementary foods—provide nutritional synergy
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Food Patterns
� Carbohydrate/tuber = CORE� Legume = PULSE� Flavoring addition = FRINGE
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Examples of Core + Pulse + Fringe
Core + Pulse + Fringe
Mexican Central Plateau
Maize + Red Beans +Tomatoes &
Peppers
Middle East Wheat + Chick Peas +Olives, Sesame
Seeds. etc.
Asia Rice + Soy Beans + Ginger, Leeks, etc.
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Core, Fringe, Legume
� Three elements identifiable in each major agrarian society� Contents of each category may differ� Contents of each category in each society/place reflects the
intersection of culture and environment
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Core, Pulse, Fringe
� Notable for a lack of animal protein� Versus “high on the hog” in U.S. and few elite in other cultures� Few domesticated animals�
Often used more for milk, cheese, riding, leather, rather than as meat