Food and gender Anth 203, Week 4 Today’s lecture Food as a symbolic How does food encode male- ness/masculinity and female-ness/femininity? Our main example Hua systems of classification in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. (Anna Meigs, Jeffrey Sobal) Gendered roles and the question of power: how is food production, preparation and consumption gendered? (Carole Counihan, Anne Allison) Symbolic associations By ‘symbol’ I mean an object or a sign or an image that another thing refers to – but the relationship between... More