Entomophagy Anthropology
JULIE LESNIK
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Dept of Anthropology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
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Back to School: Entomophagy Anthropology Teaching Materials

9/3/2015

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It's that time.  Most professors are putting the finishing touches on their syllabi, so why not include entomophagy as a topic this year?

To make things a little easier for you, I am putting some of my resources here for you to use.

1)  LECTURE SLIDES
These are my own lectures and a lot of the information comes from my own research.  I put them up on SlideShare.  It should be easy enough for you to get a basic account for free in order to access the presentations.

For a general audience, I posted an introduction to the role of entomophagy over the course of human evolution.  This talk is geared towards non-anthropologists and has some infographics about the benefits of eating insects in addition to broader evolution concepts.
"Introduction to Entomophagy and Evolution":  http://www.slideshare.net/secret/4afousVfJ3xsUP

It may be useful to go to this blog by "Ask and Entomologist."  The author re-iterates me giving the above talk.  It can be useful in filling in some of the missed information from only having the slides and not hearing the talk.
http://askentomologists.com/2015/02/11/journey-through-time/

For courses in biological anthropology, this is a lecture that includes a reconstruction of australopithecine diet.  This is the last lecture I give in Introduction to Biological Anthropology as a paleoanthropology case study, but it would also be very useful in an Evolution of the Human Diet class or Fossil Hominins class.
"Advanced Entomophagy and Evolution":  http://www.slideshare.net/secret/ik04btUPJ0QHW2

The research I present in this second talk comes from the below papers.  You can access them here on academia.edu if you are a member, or feel free to message me, and I will send you the pdf.
J. Lesnik. (2014). Termites in the hominid diet: A meta-analysis of termite genera, species and castes as a dietary supplement                 for South African robust australopithecines.  Journal of Human Evolution.  Special Issue: The Other Faunivory. 71: 94-104.
J. Lesnik. (2011). Bone tool texture analysis and the role of termites in the hominid diet. Paleoanthropology.  2011: 268-281.


2) AUDIO
Here is another post by "Ask an Entomologist."  
http://askentomologists.com/2015/02/09/why-dont-we-eat-bugs-in-western-culture/

 This is an interview with me about why we don't eat bugs in Western culture.  The author types out an abridged version of the interview, but the whole thing is there as an audio file.  It could potentially be useful to assign it to students instead of a reading.


3) VIDEO
One other useful thing I want to share is this video that could be used n any anthropology, entomology, environment studies, food, or nutrition class.  This is a BBC video titled "Can Eating Insects Save the World?"  



I hope that you will find these resources useful!  Thanks for helping to spread the word to your students!


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    Julie Lesnik received her PhD studying the role of termites in the diet of fossil hominins and has since started exploring insects as food more broadly.

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