Description

WILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH TURNITIN

Must be written in following format with sub-section titles:
Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References

Written as an Ethnography

Instructions provided by professor below:

What can you tell about the cultural norms for food consumption in this culture based on your observations? Some questions that relate to this would be – What kind of meats are available? For example, in Peru you might see guinea pig on the menu – do you see that here? What kinds of vegetables and how does this relate to cultural norms? For example, more resources might be available in this environment, but are not consumed by people in this culture. We could eat dogs and cats – they are a protein based life form, but we don’t in the US. So, out of what we could eat, what does this data observation exercise indicate about what we do eat?
What are the cultural norms for how we consume food? Do we do it sitting in a chair, with knives and forks or on the floor with chopsticks or on some other surface with our hands?
What are the cultural interaction norms that your data suggest? For example, what was people’s body language like while eating? What about eye contact? How about talking while eating?
Once you have analyzed your data for this culture, compare it with a culture with different norms for which you can find published literature. This could be a culture where they eat something that we don’t like in the case of Peru and the guinea pig or it could be a culture that eats using different tools like chopsticks instead of knives and forks. This should be a culture outside of your primary culture. If you live in the US, that means you should compare US norms with a culture outside of the US. If you live in another country, you should compare the norms of that country with norms from a country outside of that country.
If you are so inspired, you could also eat at restaurant that serves the type of food you are using as a comparison culture. You could eat at a Peruvian food restaurant, for example, and make comparisons on the spices used or the different flavors involved in those foods. Keep in mind though that this restaurant, while it may serve Peruvian food, is located in the US, and so, you will still have to do some research into what norms you would find in Peru. Sometimes, there is a big difference!
Whether you go to a restaurant serving your comparison culture’s food or not, you will still include literature that discusses their cultural norms with regard to food and food consumption.