Food Archaeology for Social Justice

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Why do we do food archaeology, and what can we use it for? In the last few decades, social archaeology has strongly shaped approaches to food in the past, directing our attention to how food is used to create social boundaries and values. More than ever before, archaeology is now facing the challenge of making ourselves relevant to the communities we work in and the multiple publics we serve, by focusing on hot topic issues like sustainability, resilience, and food security. Building on examples from the Americas and Africa, we consider how a social archaeology of food has shaped and can further embrace an explicitly political agenda to address some of the social challenges of our present moment, including inequality, anti-racism, and Indigenous food sovereignty.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 33377