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Anthropology
Description: Nutritional Anthropology examines the relationship between human biology and nutritional status within the context of economics, politics, culture, history, and evolution. Specifically, this class examines human nutrition and food systems from comparative, biocultural, and evolutionary perspectives in time and space. The role of health in food systems in all these factors is a crucial aspect. Long-term evolutionary processes are examined within an ecological framework as significant factors affecting human biology and susceptibility to diet-related disease. Global relations of power and inequity are examined as key factors influencing access to food and patterns of over- and under-nutrition for both populations and individuals. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Prerequisite: Graduate Status
Anthropology
Term : Spring 2019
Catalog Year : 2018-2019
ANT 621 - Nutritional Anthropology
Description: Nutritional Anthropology examines the relationship between human biology and nutritional status within the context of economics, politics, culture, history, and evolution. Specifically, this class examines human nutrition and food systems from comparative, biocultural, and evolutionary perspectives in time and space. The role of health in food systems in all these factors is a crucial aspect. Long-term evolutionary processes are examined within an ecological framework as significant factors affecting human biology and susceptibility to diet-related disease. Global relations of power and inequity are examined as key factors influencing access to food and patterns of over- and under-nutrition for both populations and individuals. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Prerequisite: Graduate Status