Anthropology of Food

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For a paper you may . . .

• Do a paper on the food of a Country, Culture, Region, Area, or Territory
  
  or
  
  
• Write a comparative paper on two or more films chosen from the films listed on the Food Films page at <www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/affoodfilms.html#title>
  
  
  • This venture includes a comparative anthropology review and analysis of two or more feature-length "food films," including at least one "foreign film."
    
    
  • Your task is to study and compare two feature-length "food flicks" as a cultural/social anthropologist.
    
    
• REPEAT: At least one of the films you choose must be a "foreign film."
  
  
• NOTE This requires an Analytical Paper, one that is comparative (one paper that compares and contrasts two or more qualifying films).
  This option is not just for two parallel or even two comparative film reviews.  You must approach the films as if you were an ethnologist doing fieldwork in the respective communities/cultures.   And don’t forget that a focus must be on the food culture, including the peoples' relationship(s) to it.

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Films Review
The Case Study counts up to 100 points [7.1 % of the final grade]

• References / Useful Information
  
  
  • Food and Film: Main Films -- Food in the Arts, The London Food Film Fiesta
    
    
  • Food, Film and Culture. James R. Keller. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006
    
    
  • Food in the Movies. Steve Zimmerman and Ken Weiss. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2005
    
    
  • Food on Film -- Gastronomica, Rebecca L. Epstein
    
    
  • How to Watch Anthropology Films -- Thomas ‘Tad' McIlwraith
    
    
  • Observing and Recording Details -- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
    
    
  • Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film. Anne Bower (Editor). NY: Routledge, 2005.
    
    
  • Visual Anthropology
    
    
  • The Descriptive Essay -- Purdue University Online Writing Lab

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• Choose from the films listed on the Food Films page
  at <www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/affoodfilms.html#title>

   

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Watch the film one or more times

Then first write a summary of the film
(See "Suggested Strategies" below for suggestions)

And then write your response / evaluation of the film
(See "Suggested Strategies" below for suggestions)

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tba Case Study Due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
by tba at 11:59 p.m. CDT

• call your paper something like YourUMDid_case_study
  (e.g., troufs_Kypseli_case_study)
  
  
• Atomic Clock Sync freeware from worldtimeserver.com
  
  
• Unexcused late Case Study papers receive no credit
  
  

Length: tba well-written pages, including one title page (see below) and one "Works Cited" (or "References") page (see below)

• You must turn in tba pages of well-written description and personal reaction
  Shorter and/or perhaps not-so-well-written papers will be returned for revision
  
  
• If you "run out of stuff" to say or write about, then you will be required, on your own, to view the video again in the Library
  
  

The Case Study counts up to 100 points [7.1 % of the final grade]

Your grades will be available online in your eGradebook <http://www.d.umn.edu/egradebook> file

• Criteria for Grading College Writing

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When you write anything you should consider audience, purpose, and your personal style

• For your case studiy, your audience should be your classmates in this class
• do not write your college papers to the professor as audience
  
  
  

See the "Preparing the Final Draft" section of the Sociology - Anthropology - Criminology - Humanities / Classics Writing Guide to see the details of what your Case Study report should look like when you hand it in

Basically, it should look like the paper which follows

[more information on your title]

A Description and Review of

The Joy of

Baking Bread in a Wood Oven

after Retirement




by George Bush, Jr.




An Anthroplogy of Food

Case Study

Professor Roufs

21 November 2024

I. Introdution
[more information on an Introduction]

Put an introductory statement here, explaining the nature of your case study. Include at the end a transitional statement about finding an item of interest that's a good example of some current trend or new discovery.

II. Body
[Give this section an interesting subtitle, something other than "Body"]

Describe and discuss your chosen topic(s) here. (If you do a comparison / contrast paper you will need more than one topic, otherwise a single topic is fine.) Use some form of organizational structure. The "Journalist's Questions," Who,What, When, Where, How and Why are often helpful.

For this assignment your "Body" could be made up of two parts:

1. A summary of the contents of Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality (41 min., 1987,  VC 3286)
   
   
2. Your response / evaluation of Kypseli

Use the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant if you do not have much experience writing college papers.

III. Conclusions

Put your conclusions here.