Books:
Anderson, E. (2014). Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture, Second Edition. NYU Press ISBN: 9780814760062
Millstone, E. and T. Lang (2008). The Atlas of Food – Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Earthscan
Mintz, Sydney W. (1986): Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Books, New York, ISBN: 978-0-140-09233-2
(Introduction, pp. XV-xxx; Production, pp. 19-74; Eating and being, pp. 187-214)
Compendium
The following articles are available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Student ID Card.
Du Bois, Christine M., and Ivan Sergio Freire De Sousa (2008) “Chapter 4: Genetically
Engineered Soy”, in Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan and Sidney Mintz (eds) The world of Soy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago. pp 74-96, ISBN: 978-0-252-03341-4
Du Bois, Christine M. and Sidney W. Mintz (2008) “Conclusion. Soy’s Dominance and Destiny”, in Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan and Sidney Mintz (eds) The world of Soy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago. pp. 299-313, ISBN: 978-0-252-03341-4
Mintz, Sidney W., Christine M. Du Bois, and Chee-Beng Tan (2008) “Introduction: The Significance of Soy” in Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan and Sidney Mintz (eds) The world of Soy. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago. pp. 1-23, ISBN: 978-0-252-03341-4
Syse, Karen and Kristian Bj?rkdahl. (2013). “Death and Meatreality” in Rane Willerslev & Dorthe Refslund Christensen (eds) Taming Time, Timing Death. Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time. Ashgate. Pp. 213-230, ISBN: 978-1-409-45068-9
Online Articles:
All articles in the syllabus are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here.
Bacon, C. (2004) "Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?" World Development Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 497–511
Banik, D. (2016) "The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India", Food Ethics, 1-29.
Barrett, J., Locker, A., & Roberts, C. (2004). "‘Dark Age Economics’ revisited: The English fish bone evidence AD 600-1600." Antiquity, 78(301), pp 618-636.
Benson, P. and Fischer, E. F. (2007), Broccoli and Desire. Antipode, 39: 800–820.
Bernholt, H., Kehlenbeck, K., Gebauer, J., Buerkert A. (2009) "Plant species richness and diversity in urban and peri-urban gardens of Niamey, Niger" Agroforestry Systems 77 (3), 159-179
Bj?rnstad, ?. (2016) "Wheat - Its role in social and cultural life" in Bonjean, Angus og van Ginkel (eds) , World Wheat Book: A History of Wheat Breeding Lavoisier, Paris 2016. Chapter 44
Brown K.H, Jameton A.L (2000) "Public Health Implications of Urban Agriculture", Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 21, No. 1. (2000), pp. 20-39.
Carrer F. (2016) "Secondary Products Exploitation: Preliminary Ethnoarchaeological Insights from Alpine Cases Study" in Biagetti S., Lugli F. (eds) The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. Springer
Diamond and Bellwood (2003) "Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions", Science, Vol. 300 no. 5619 pp. 597-603
Domene, I & Saurí, D (2007) "Urbanization and class-produced natures: Vegetable gardens in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region", Geoforum, Volume 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pp 287-298
Kildal , C. & Syse, K.L. 2017 Meat and masculinity in the Norwegian Armed Forces, Appetite 112, 2017 , pp. 69-77
Mander, H. (2012) “Food From the Courts: The Indian Experience”, IDS Bulletin 43: 15-20
Newell P. (2009), "Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina." Canadian Journal Of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne d’etudes du dévelopment, Vol.26(4), pp.867-887.
Pitcher T.J & Lam M.E (2015) "Fish commoditization and the historical origins of catching fish for profit in" Maritime Studies 2015
Pudup, B (2008) "It takes a garden: Cultivating citizen-subjects in organized garden projects", Geoforum, Volume 39, Issue 3, 2008, pp. 1228-1240, ISSN 0016-7185
Roseberry, W. (1996), "The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States" in American Anthropologist, 98: 762–775
Stibbe, Arran (2003) "As Charming as a Pig: The Discursive Construction of the Relationship Between Pigs and Humans", Society & Animals, vol. 11, no. 4: pp. 375-92.
Optional Readings:
Montbiot, G. (2010) "I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly" in The Guardian 6th Sept. 2010