It’s a common adage, following Lévi-Strauss, that “food is good to think with.” A class assignment that includes food-centred ethnographic presentations expands the scope of such thinking into embodied and institutional memory. Below I describe such a class feast prepared by second-year social anthropology students at Sol Plaatje University in 2019 (one of two post-Apartheid South African Universities). The idea …
Eating in Class: Notes on Nourishment and Decolonial Pedagogy
This article is part of the series: Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions