Projects Natasha Dow Schull, a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at ISERP, is completing an ethnographic video entitled "Buffet."  The half-hour video addresses the cultural and experiential dimensions of gastronomic over-consumption through the lens of the Las Vegas buffet, a socially sanctioned binge-ritual that exemplifies problems of excess and waste in contemporary American Life.  The video contributes an innovative methodological approach to the study of over-consumption by using a visual medium to track the movement of food through the consumption chain.  In "Buffet," the simple act of eating a meal illuminates complex social, political, and economic issues.

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