History and Sociology of Food

História e Sociologia da Alimentação

Curse code:9554104

Renata Catarina Gonçalves Ramalho

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

This curricular unit aims to give students the basic knowledge about the humanization of feeding behaviors, food relation with health, social function of food and food strategies in different historical ages.
It affords also the first contact of students with cookery, pushing them to prepare typical meals of different historical periods, subject to their critical analysis, taking in account food resources supply, social and economical conditions prevalent in those periods.

Syllabus:

Lectures:

1. Food in the beginnings of humanization.
2. Food and culture in the first civilizations.
3. Civilization and food models.
4. Society, Food and Pheudalism.
5. From industrial revolution to industrial food.
6. Current human diet: social and economical factors affecting food choice and habits.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Fischer CL (2001) L´Homnivore, Éditions Odile Jacob, Paris