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? What is typical in an American family’s meal? What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? 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? 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 support your points in the paper.
Finding food each day is a necessity for ev ery person no matter where that person lives, but food is not just a matter of basic survival. H umans assign symbolic meaning to food, observing cultural norms about what is considered “ good” to eat and applying taboos against the consumption of other foods. Catholics may a void meat during Lent, for instance, while J ewish and Islamic communities forbid the consumption of certain foods such as pork. In addition to these attitudes and preferences, every society has pr eferred methods for pr eparing food and for consuming it with others. The cultural norms and attitudes surrounding food and eating are kno wn as foodways. B y studying both the subsistence system used b y a society to acquire f ood and the foodway associated with consuming it, anthropologists gain insight into the most important daily tasks in every society
Light, Linda. (2020). Language. In Brown, N., McIlwrath, L., and Tubelle de Gonzalez, L. (Eds.), Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 96-117). 2020 American Anthropological Association. http://perspectives.americananthro.org/
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