PUBLIC LECTURE: Changes in Food Production: some past and present examples

Sidney Mintz is a Research Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in the US. His landmark book Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985) illuminated the intricate relationships between food race, imperialism, class, culture, and power. He is also the author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past (1996) which explores food habits in an interdisciplinary context between the wide worlds of anthropology, semiotics, class and politics.

This lecture is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies annual program “Food: production and consumption” which considers the place of food and drink in history, in contemporary societies and culture, and related scientific developments.

For more information about the program please visit our website at www.ias.uwa.edu.au

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