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1. Bio-physical Aspects of Food
   The Case Study counts up to 100 points [7.1 % of the final grade]
   
   
• What do we know about food from the bio-physical point of view? And how do we know it?
  
  
  
• Your task for this case study is to select an topic related to food and physical/biolocal anthropology. For this project do not choose lacatose intolerance. This could include topics like, for example...
  
  
  • Nutritional Anthropology
    • famine
      
      
  • Eating Disorders
    anorexia nervosa
    • binge eating bulimia nervosa
    • orthorexia nervosa
    • pica
    • Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
      
      
  • Cultural standards of Beauty
    
    
  • Use of food stimulants cross-culturally, for e.g....
    • caffine
    • nicotine
    • alcohol
      
      
  • The cultural and biological aspects of use of food stimulants in the United States, for e.g....
    • "energy drinks"
    • coffee
    • tea
    • chocolate
      
      
  • Obesity
    
    
  • Prehistoric medicine
    
    
  • Taste buds and the preference for hot foods
    
    
  • How can genes mutate due to changes in diet
    
    
  • Bio-physical risks of genetically modified foods
    
    
  • Why some ethnic groups have a predisposition to alcoholism
    
    
  • Examining musculoskeletal stress markers to determine daily habits and patterns of activities involved in foraging, agriculture, and other food procurement activities
    
    
• References / Useful Information
  
  
  • American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  • British Association of Biological Anthropologists and Osteoarchaeologists
  • Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology
  • The Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology-The Free Online Journal
  • Journal of Anthropological Sciences

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2. tba write a summary of tba
   (See outline below)
   
   
   
3. And then tba write your response / evaluation of tba
   (See outline below)
   
   
• tba

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4. 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)
     
     
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   • Unexcused late Case Study papers receive no credit
     
     
5. 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
     
     
6. The Case Study counts up to tbd points [tbd % of the final grade]
   
   
7. 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

25 May 2012

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.