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Taste as a social sense. Sharing the experience of eating

by Susanne Højlund (AU)

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 15 April 2015,  at 12:30 - 14:00

Location

Moesgaard, Aud 1 (4206-117)

Organizer

Contemporary Ethnography

In the seminar series Kitchen Table the research program Contemporary Ethnography presents:

Susanne Højlund (AU):

“Taste as a social sense. Sharing the experience of eating”

Abstract:

Presenting two publications (in press), and an ongoing fieldwork (including filming) Susanne Højlund, anthropologist from AU, discusses the anthropology of food and taste,and opens for a debate on the potential of rethinking and re-conceptualizing the field of taste and food based on theories of synaesthesia and cultural mediation.