The fourth lecture in the Anthropology Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, will feature Ellen Oxfeld, the Gordon Schuster Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College. The lecture, titled “Food as Moral Discourse in Contemporary Rural China,” will take place Monday, April 16, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201.
Light refreshments will be available.
About the speaker
Oxfeld has researched communities of Chinese immigrants in countries such as India and Canada. Since the mid-1990s, she has returned several times to do fieldwork in a village in Meixian, Guangdong Province, China, where she has investigated:
- Moral discourse;
- Changes and continuities in life-cycle rituals;
- Changing gender roles;
- Transformations in property and class relations; and
- Changes in the local food system.
Oxfeld has written three books, including Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China.