Cultural Anthropology Foodways Paper

• For your Week 3 paper, explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one non-industrial society of your choosing.
• To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook.
• What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? We must have, pork, rice and side dishes like yucca and salad.
• What is typical in an American family’s meal? Turkey, Sweet potato pie, mash potato and green been casserole.
• What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? We don’t eat fish or fried foods for Thanksgiving. Nothing store bought.
• How much of the Thanksgiving meal is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family? Our family has a farm and they slaughter their own pigs. We get the pig delivered to our home for Christmas.
• What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal?
• How does that compare with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal?
• Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a non-industrial society of your choosing. The non-industrial society must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading. What does a typical meal of your chosen non-industrial society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen non-industrial society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen non-industrial society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen non-industrial society?
• Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways. The paper must be formatted in APA Style, with an APA-Style title page, page numbers in the upper right, headings, parenthetical in-text citations, and a reference page. The headings must be centered on the line and formatted in bold and in title case. Include at least the following headings: Thanksgiving Holiday American Foodways, Foodways of (name the non-industrial society), and Conclusion.
Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to suppocozrt your points in the paper.

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