Why the %!@# Does Food Heal You?
Channel: Search Your Library
Date: 2023-05-21

**CORRECTION**: at 12:00 the video references a concept named “histability”. This was a mistranscription of the word “digestability”. Sorry for the mistake!

Ever wondered why food tokens heal you? In this episode of Search Your Library, I trace the trope of "healing food" back through the history of gaming, then to the the traditions of indigenous Mayan food practice.

Featuring an interview with Miguel Cuj, Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University. Check out his research here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2020.1826475

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Search Your Library is a series of video essays exploring Magic: the Gathering from an academic perspective. It features summarizes of historical literature and interviews with the next generation of scholars. 

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