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Meaning of Food and Family

Critically analyze the concept of meat hunger. What are the potential causes and effects?

Initial responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook) APA format

Food & Gender, Ethnicity, & SES

Gender roles include tasks and identities related to food. What are the most common food-related tasks considered masculine in US culture?

What are the most common food related tasks considered feminine in US culture? Which tasks are the prestige tasks and which are the routine, thankless tasks?

Initial responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook) APA format

Food Norms and Taboos

Early European colonial powers discovered people-eating in some of the indigenous peoples they met around the world. What was their initial conclusion concerning why this choice is made? What does Harris think is the driving force making some societies people-eaters and others not? Explain the theories in detail, explaining the logic and evidence. Also address the concept of food taboos.

Initial responses should be no less than 250 words in length not including your reference(s) and supported by at least two references (aside from the textbook) APA format

FOOD MEMORY

(Texas Barbeque)

For this assignment, you will discuss a food memory, preferably from your childhood. This could be a memory of tasting or liking/disliking a particular food, or it could be a memory focused on a dish from a particular eating event, collective or individual. Pay attention to as many senses as you can invoke to evoke this memory.

If you recalled a dish at a specific event, talk to others who were also present and see how they remember the dish and the event; analyze the similarities and discrepancies between your recollections. You can also include a brief recipe if you like.

Do a bit of research to place your memory in wider context, incorporating related sources when applicable. Discuss the cultural, symbolic, social, structural, or other meanings of this dish. Specify the social group for whom it has meaning, for what kinds of occasions and settings is this dish prepared, who is involved in the preparation, serving, and consumption of this dish, background, etc.

Is this a food that unique to your culture? What are its traditional names? (And, do these names have any special significance and/or meaning?)

What ingredients go into making these foods? How and when are they eaten? Are there unspoken family "rules" about food consumption (e.g., what's okay, and not okay, to eat; how and where should one eat, etc.)Instead of writing a traditional paper, I want you to have FUN with this assignment. To that end, please put together a presentation using one of the FREE online multimedia programs listed below.

In addition to these sites, you might want to use pixabay to enhance your presentations with free pictures/graphics from a wide variety of sources.

Multimedia sites:

For prezi - go to Try Prezi Next free, go to Students & Teachers click on "learn more," click on EDU Standard Continue, and create an account.

For creaza - students and teachers can register for a free account and then proceed to create a multimedia presentation.

For powtoon - students and teachers can register for a free account by clicking "start now."

For toondo - students and teachers can register for a free account by clicking "sign up for free."

The best way to capture the "richness" of this topic is through a presentation that allows you to select colors and music and backgrounds and pictures and images that convey how this food memory resonates with you after all this time.

Here is an example of how you can enhance things using pixabay.

This class focuses on the ins and outs of food and culture. Why do different groups eat what they eat? What meaning do food rituals have in a culture?

All of these are topics that we get to explore together in this class. Growing up in New Orleans, I was introduced to food as a key part of social ritual early on.

King cakes at Mardi Gras, red beans and rice on Mondays. All of these have special meanings that are tied to the culture and the ritual behaviors of people in New Orleans.