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CALL FOR GRADUATE PAPERSBelinda Blinkoff (bblinkof@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU)Mon, 10 Oct 1994 22:57:12 EDT
CONTEMPLATING FOOD: REPRESENTATION, RECONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION MARCH 4, 1995 - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ A conference for graduate students from all fields of anthropology and related disciplines with a focus on issues related to food. CALL FOR PAPERS: Please submit a 200 word abstract by Dec. 15, 1994. (5-10 page papers from accepted abstracts due Jan. 30, 1995) Possible topics include but are not restricted to: * The political economy of famine * Digestive physiology * Food, pleasure, eroticism * Subsistence adaptations for hominids colonizing new ecozones * Food in consumer culture * The culture of decline and scarcity * The role of plant foods in hominid diets * Feeding ecology of non-human primates * The social significance of food * Diet as a factor in social organization * Early evidence for specialized hunting and its significance to hominids * The sexual politics of food * Social consequences of novel dietary adaptations * (Mal)nutrition and its affect on health * Evolution, ecology and diet * Constructing food pathologies * Dental anthropology * Food fads and fetishes * The effect of new technology on hominid food procurement and processing * Human rights to food Send material to: Crosscurrents Rutgers University Department of Anthropology P.O. Box 270 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903-0270 (908)932-9790 Attn: Conference Coordinator Papers will be selected by subcommittees consisting of graduate students and faculty members. Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal "Crosscurrents". Crosscurrents is a forum for scholarly debate among anthropology graduate students. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-registration form: Please return this form to the above address before January 30, 1995 NAME: ____________________________ Institution:____________________________________ Mailing Address: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Phone/email:____________________________________ Pre-registration rates: Graduate Students $10.00 Faculty $15.00 All others $10.00 Please remit payment by check payable to Crosscurrents. Amount Enclosed: $______ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crosscurrents Subscription Order - 1995 Volume VII Crosscurrents - The Journal of Graduate Research in Anthropology Volume VII - Special Topic Issue - "Contemplating Food" Available Summer 1995 A single issue of Crosscurrents is published annually. Rates are: Students $10.00 Faculty $15.00 Institutions $20.00 NAME: __________________________________________ Institution: ___________________________________ Mailing Address: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Phone/email: ___________________________________ Please remit payments by check payable to Crosscurrents. Amount Enclosed: $______ _______________________________________________________________________ Total enclosed - Registration: $______ Subscription: $______ Total: $______
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