Food & Culture

Front 1

Why does Mararet Mead think Americans have "peculiar Attitudes" about how citizens should eat and excercise?

Back 1

- It has become less of a social joyace part of our lives and more of necessity for survival.

-Americans see it as wrong to be obese so we fight off the urge of eating rather than eating to get enough food or nutrition

Front 2

Why does Barthes suggest that French scholars do not give food sufficient attention?

Back 2

Scholars see food as a trivial subject to research and it brings the sense of guilt. The preperation of their food is less important than their absolute cost.

Front 3

Explain what Barthes means when he writes that food signifies and give and example from the text and one of your own.

Back 3

Food signifies means that when we purchase and prepare food we are transforming it into something that has significance.

Front 4

According to Bourdieu, how does a professional, such as a teacher who has high cultural capital and low economic capital make food choices?

Back 4

Teachers make these decisions based on the fact that culture has a greater effect on their lives than food does. they do not see food as a means of denoting class or refinement just as a necessity.

Front 5

Explain why Levi-Strauss considers food and language theories to be transposable.

Back 5

Language and food related theories are similar because there is no culture where food does not exists and vice versa.

Front 6

What two main categories does Douglas identify for past interpritations of religious dietary prescription?

Back 6

Leviticus and Deuteronomy

the rules are meaningless becuase their intent is disiplinary and not doctrinal, or they are allegories of virtues and vices.

Front 7

Explain why initially seems irrational to Harris why the pig would be taboo.

Back 7

The pig is the most benneficial mammal because they have high reproduction and gain weight fast. and have the highest potential to turn plants into fat fast.

Front 8

What specific factors motivated early advances in industrial food preservation in the 18 and 19 century

Back 8

The industrialization of the working class, urbanization war and the inability to transport food

Front 9

According to Mintz why is food again becoming of interest to anthropologists

Back 9

Because they are concerned with the fight over resources and energy and they are interested in everyday lives.

Front 10

Expalin the origin of the early stereotypical association between African Americans and Chicken

Back 10

Slaves were allowed to keep chickens and sell them in the market. It was believed the slaves would steal chickens and eat them in the night.

Front 11

What was the prevailing masculine stereotype in Japan untill recently?

Back 11

The salary man. urban middle class white collar worker

Front 12

How does Swenson define "doing gender"

Back 12

keeping social relationships orderly comprehensible and stratified

Front 13

Compare and contrast the concepts of hegemonic masculinity and domestice masculinity as they relate to cooking

Back 13

-men are typically the breadwinners and no the cook or caretaker. so when a man does these roles it goes against this cuaisng a break down and rebuild of hegemonic ways, or an attempt to keep such things taboo, so they may not take away from masculine pride.

Front 14

explain how the obento is intended to help a child transition into school

Back 14

the obento is a package of sustanace for the child it is the ideal way to show a mother cares for her child. the time and preperatin and care it takes to construct a nutritious and meaningful meal is s symbol for caring for your child. they also assure the child can develope properly while in school.

Front 15

Explain the concept of differential conciousness

Back 15

Differential conciousness is linked to whatever is not expressible through words. it is accessed through poetic modes of expression.

Front 16

Explain how Allison argues that obentos function as an ideological State Appartus

Back 16

the more elaborate the obento box the more money the parents are thought to of had and vice versa. its starts the childs social status at a young age.

Front 17

Expalin how carrington citing devould argues tht feeding work is more complicated than it may seem at first glance

Back 17

he shows that a host at a dinner party puts a ton of work into prepaing cooking and cleaning for the meal and the "lower class" and show they are stiated are excepting that they are in a lower class and graciously accept being taken care of by the host. (it shows your better than someone)

Front 18

Explain the distiction between shopping and provisioning that carrington employs

Back 18

-shopping is simply procuring and ingredient to which there is no value

-Provisioning is difficult and requires emotional effort to create a meal that someoen wants to be appreciated for making

Front 19

slocum draws heavily on the theories of Grosz particularly the concept of corporeality

Back 19

Corpereality is the relationship between human bodies withing social and physical contraints and how they form sexual and reical identities through these interactions to create identitities

Front 20

Discuss the differences that Slocum describes between the Hmong growers and other vendors at the market

Back 20

Hmong growers are the people that slocum calls resellers they got the food from large farms. They are asian and sell what white growers dont. Their food is not perfectly packaged either

Front 21

Describe the Punk attitude towards industrialized food

Back 21

The punk attitude is simpy that it is wastefull and capitalistic and has little to no nutritional value.

Front 22

Explain the connection among food, the body, and feminism in punk ideology

Back 22

Feminism in the punk is that eating however much volumes of whatever they want as long as they are still active and healthy and have vitality is ok. Meat is not common beacause it is thought to be wasteful so the feminist eat meat to show their masuculinity to because it has thought to be outdate and unnecassrary.