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:*Rachel Lauden, ''Cusine and Empire'' Introduction and Chapter 1, "Mastering Grain Cookery, 20,000 to 300 bce", p. 1-55
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:*Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
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:*Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?
  
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===Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery===
  
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===Lauden, Rachel, C1, "Mastering Grain Cookery"===
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:*Please take the following anonymous [https://gonzaga.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I98g1ecsTe59ZP survey].
  
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====General Claims and Inferences====
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===Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment===
  
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:*This overview of "grain and root" cooking from 20,000 ya should expand your sense of human foods in several ways:
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgKCYITDTSOOHcvC3TAVNK-EZDsP4jiiyPj-7jdpRoNUsLPA/viewform?usp=sf_link].  '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.''' Up to 10 points, in Points.
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::*not just a binary of paleolithic/neolithic (preag/ag). Cooking grains goes back 20K.
 
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::*long before bread, grain cookery produced cakes, porridges, pottages, ashcakes, flatbreads, pasta, etc.  Maize isn't just corn on the cob, but tortilla, polenta, etc.
 
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::*alot of grain in the ancient world went to beer production
 
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::*before markets, people still had to make calculations of labor calories for food calories.  Lauden argues that root cuisines could not support cities (details at 31-32, also 35).  Still, grains are also labor intensive.
 
  
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:*'''Cooking, Cuisines, and Ancient Culinary philosophy'''
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::*Back evaluations are due '''Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm'''.
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::*Cooking - p. 11 --
 
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::*"Cuisine" is more than the foods themselves. A Cuisine represents a system of food production (food system, and cooking skills) that represent a life sustaining diet.  But a culinary philosophy relates our cuisine to larger structures (43), :
 
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:::*a '''principle of hierarchy''' - nomad, peasant, poor town dweller, ....noble.  Monarch's status connected to power to protect harvest. (Power to feed fed power.) moral theory of food values. 44.   
 
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:::*a '''sacrificial bargain'''  - gets replaced by universal religions and personal salvation. like the transaction with monarch. includes human sacrifice.  blood never neutral in cuisine.  Either strong positive or negative. 
 
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:::*a '''theory of the culinary cosmos''' -- Fire thought to be a thing, not just kinetic energy. analogy of fire from sun in growth to fire in cooking.  also, heat in the belly. 
 
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::*"Culinary philosophy - relates us to divinity, society, and the natural world (2), also, new political and philosophical ideas affect cuisines (6) (ex. Buddhist cuisines)  -- "Food situates us." 50 (story of Tuscan friend)
 
  
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::*Group Discussion: Are there modern equivalents in our food culture for the categories of ancient culinary philosophy? Do we engage in hierarchical eating?  Have we made some other kind of bargain with the forces that we believe sustain our food security?  Do we have a culinary cosmos?
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===Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"===
  
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:*p. 25: "Who Am I?" task.  Show charts
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:*p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
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:*p. 34: guilt vs. shame
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:*p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely). 
  
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====Reading Notes====
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===Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"===
  
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:*Introduction - core idea for the book from her Hawaii book.  Movements of food, technology, and technique get consolidated into cuisines that spread, often in connection with power and empire or nation state.  Wants to displace an older story in which high cuisine is an evolution from humble cuisine.
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====WEIRD Morality====
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:*WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
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::*just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
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::*only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
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::*"the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships" "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist. 
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::*survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
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::*framed-line task 97
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:*Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist.  Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.
  
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:*Hypothesizes 10 global cuisines, all based on roots and grains.   
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====A 3 channel moral matrix====
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:*Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
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::*claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
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::*ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
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::*vertical dimension to values.  explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons.  (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)
  
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:*1,000 bc - 50 million humans, cities no larger than 10,000.  Cooking already for up to 2 million years.   
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====Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference====
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:*'''Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience''': diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work.  Stop and think about how a mind might create this.  Detail about airline passenger.
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:*Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
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:*American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy).  Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
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:*'''Stepping out of the Matrix''':  H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right.  Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view.  Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.
  
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:*Major change: technology to harvest food from hard seed of herbaceous plants (grains)  Lake Kinneret site (Sea of Galilee) 19.4K ya.  Only grain cultures were able to support cities. 
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===Small Group Discussion===
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:*Cuisines of the Yellow River (18), Yangzte River (19), and barley wheat cuisines of Turkey, Mediterranean. 
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::*Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing? What value might it have in your experience?
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::*Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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:*24ff: the sacrificial feast.  Note food hierarchies, 25. 
 
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:*Carribean and South American cassava and potato cuisines.  Maize Cuisine of Mesoamerica. Corn 7,000 bc, by 3,000 maize extends into Ecuador.  
 
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:*high vs. humble cuisine. 
 
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::*high cuisines heavy in meats, sweets, fats, and intoxicants.  highly processed ingredients (whiter flour). luury foods, appetizers (70% of calories)
 
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::*humble cuisines - roots or grains with greens.  80-90% of population, 70-75% of calories from this.
 
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:::*humble eaters shorter, less energetic, and less clever.  malnutrition in pregnancy is a horror for development....
 
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:*town poor vs. country poor -- town poor often fared better. "The chicken is the country's but the city eats it". Below the peasant was the nomad.
 

Latest revision as of 19:51, 6 October 2020

11: OCT 6

Assigned

  • Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
  • Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?

Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery

  • Please take the following anonymous survey.

Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment

  • Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [1]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. Up to 10 points, in Points.
  • Back evaluations are due Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm.

Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"

  • p. 25: "Who Am I?" task. Show charts
  • p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
  • p. 34: guilt vs. shame
  • p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).

Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"

WEIRD Morality

  • WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
  • just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
  • only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
  • "the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships" "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist.
  • survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
  • framed-line task 97
  • Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist. Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.

A 3 channel moral matrix

  • Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
  • claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
  • ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
  • vertical dimension to values. explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons. (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)

Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference

  • Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience: diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work. Stop and think about how a mind might create this. Detail about airline passenger.
  • Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
  • American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy). Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
  • Stepping out of the Matrix: H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right. Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view. Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.

Small Group Discussion

  • Discussion questions:
  • Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing? What value might it have in your experience?
  • Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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