Foodways, Diet and Nutrition
Foodways, Diet and Nutrition
This cluster explores eating, nutrition and diet, but also how humans engage with their worlds and each other.
Current research examines nutrition (and malnutrition), health and a wide range of practices including household dynamics, exchange and economics, religious practice, conquest and resistance, commercialization, and sustainable food systems.
Researchers
Kee Yong PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23907
Shanti Morell-Hart PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23909
Tracy Prowse PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
adeansoc@mcmaster.ca prowset@mcmaster.ca
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26077
Courses
Level I
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
Level II
2AN3: Food and Nutrition
2EO3: Intro to Biological Anthropology
Level III
3CAC: Ceramic Analysis
3CO3: Health and Environment
3PP3: Paleopathology
3XO3: Zooarchaeology
3BB3: Paleoethnobotany
3KO3: Archaeological Interpretation
Level IV
4CC3: Archaeology of Foodways
4CP3: Cultural Politics of Food and Eating
4DN3: Diet and Nutrition
4HF3: Archaeology of Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers
4KK3: Archaeology of Neanderthals and Other Early Hominids
4RO3: Advanced Skeletal Biology
Graduate
740: Biocultural Synthesis
741: Metabolic Disease
746: Bioarchaeology
749: Gastronomic Heritage
Research Programs
Archaeology Research Program
Biological Anthropology Research Program
Sociocultural Anthropology Research Program
Anthropology of Health Research Program
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate these Research Programs in six key areas of expertise and investigation: Art and New Materialisms; Ecologies, Resilience and Change; Embodiment, Health and Wellbeing; Foodways, Diet and Nutrition; Heritage, History and Memory; and Migrations, Displacements and Violence.
Ecologies, Resilience and Change