Just when you thought it was safe to read your e-mail, here comes a
couple URLs that could suck you in for an hour...or maybe never spit
you out!
--Resources for the anthropological study of food habits
http://www.ilstu.edu/~rtdirks/foodbib.html
Bibliographies are sorted by regions of the world, or by special
topics like archaeology and prehistoric food habits, nutrition,
ecology and food systems, festivals, hunger/famine/starvation,
cannibalism, and a bunch more.
There's also a special feature, from the /Journal of Human Nutrition/
128 (1998), "Experiment Station Dietary Studies Prior to World War
II: A Bibliography for the Study of Changing American Food Habits
and Diet Over Time."
I think this would be of use particularly to students, and to those
of you who need, ahem, some social studies to leaven the lumps in
your test tubes.
:^D
And speaking of leavening...
--The origins and ancient history of wine
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineintro.html
All I need to do is quote the first sentence of this Web site's home
page: "Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout
the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more
nutritious."
'Nuff said.
One of the great joys of six years at the University of Pennsylvania,
for me, was its fabulous museum of archaeology and anthropology.
Wandering the corridors of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Neolithic were
a great antidote to the Annenberg School's focus on the television
age and insistence, starting with day one, that agriculture wasn't
all that important.
Speaking of, here's a nifty site for those of you who'd like to know
more about basic communication, culture, and media studies:
--Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies Infobase
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/
What a spiffy little site; I wish it had been around when I was
dragging young folks through the basics on these topics at
Penn--the site design is exceptional, and there are also some nifty
on-line tests!
peace
misha
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Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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