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Anthropology of Food



to Sweet Treats around the World

What FoodAnthro is Reading Now . . .
. Monday, 30 June 2025, 18:27 (06:27 PM) CDT, day 181 of 2025 .
 
BBC Food
The Gardian News/ The GardianAnimals Farmed/

World Food and Water Clock
OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.    
 
     
Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
"Palermo,Sicily
Italy
A Fistful of Rice.
A Fistfull of Rice
Nepal
Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
U.S.A.
Eating rat.
"Eating Rat At The New Year"
Vietnam
National Geographic
Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Desert People
Australia

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Anthroplogy of Food

Research Project and Presentation
for Anthropology of Food

Demosthenes Practising Oratory Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy (1842–1923) -- Wikipedia

Demosthenes Practising Oratory (1870)
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842–1923)
Wikipedia

Preparing the "Informal Proposal"

The Abstract and "Working bibliography
Your Term Class Project and on-line Presentation

see details with the information on the task . . .

AUDIENCE

PURPOSE

STYLE
Begin thinking about your project early in the semester

Talk/communicate with others about what they are doing, and share your ideas

  • Details of Presentation

  • Looking for other videos for your term Project?
    Use the UMD Library Guide to Streaming Videos


  • Format Information


    • Main Due Dates for Project Materials
    (You will be given reminders during the semester.)
    Week 2
    		su2025 Live Chat for Picking a Project Topic
    Week 2, Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 7:00-8:00 CDT Sign in on Canvas.
    These are optional. If you can not make them live e-mail or e-Zoom.
    Week 3   su2025 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by the end of Week 3, Sunday, 29 June 2025.
    Week 4   su2025 Project's formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 6 July 2025 . . . or soon thereafter (submit them together)
    Week 7   Your Presentation will be on-line.

    		   

    Preparing Your "Informal Proposal"

    • Your topic/subject should be something that you, personally, are interested in
      • Your topic/subject can be almost anything you like, but it must be related to the Anthropology of Food course
      • Use materials from the textbook, class slides, and class videos--as a starting point to integrate class materials into your Project.

      • But the main focus of your project should be on materials that are not required for the class.

    • The informal "proposal" itself can be very straightforward:

    The Informal Proposal is a simple statement
    (preferably in a Word document) of . . .

    1. "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . ."

    2. "Here's why I'm interested in that. . . ."

    3. "Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . ."

    4. "What do you think?"

    Or . . .

    Your Informal Proposal can be something like . . .

    1. "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind."

    2. "Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . ."

    3. Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . ."

    4. "What do you think?"


    • "What I think will be useful" means that you should include 3 or 4 items like references to materials and activities (such as interviewing someone . . .) that you think would be helpful to your in working on your project. (No, you do not have to do an interview; that's just one possibility.)

    • "Items" can be articles, short videos, photographs, books, interviews, personal experience. . . .

    • If you include a reference to a source on the web, be sure to give its full reference (not just the URL). For a web page your full reference should look something like the one below (include as much of this material as is available for the site[s] you are looking at):

     

    Upload your file—one file—to your Canvas folder)

    • In order to upload your file please make sure that you save your Word file as a .docx or a .doc or a .rtf file.*

    • *Details on "Type of Files" are available in the "File Type Information" if you need more information on how to save your files on your computer.

    • Click on "upload assignment" button at the end of the Canvas assignment page.

      Once you have uploaded the file you can not re-upload the file unless you first remove the one you first uploaded.

      For more information regarding how to use the assignment tools, please view the Canvas Student User Guides

     

    A more formal statement (a "Promissory Abstract") of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks. 

    Between now and then I will have a look at your informal proposal and give you some feedback on it, including instructions on how to proceed with your Promissory Abstract.)

    For the "Promissory Abstract" and "Working Bibliography" you need to use APA or MLA or Chicago/Turabian style or a standard scientific method.  Which of those you use is up to you.

    Additional information that might be helpful:

     http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/images/owl_purdue.gif
    "Understanding Writing Assignments" 
     

    "Problem / Project Statement / Proposal"

    su2025 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by the end of Week 3, Sunday, 29 June 2025.

    NOTE: Try to work an analytical section into your Presentation and Paper, and at least think about approaching your Anth of Food term Project from the traditional "four-field" approach of American Anthropology. If the "four-field" approach does not work as a major appoach, consider at least addressing in summary form the relationship of your chosen topic(s) to traditional American Anthropology.

    That is, whatever your topic, look at it through an Anthropological lens. For a review of what that's all about, have a look at the Main Characteristics of Anthropology slides (.pptx).

    When relevant to your topic be sure to work in what is happening now; that is, where appropriate, relate it to current affairs.

    And always keep in mind the basic elements of writing:

    • Audience: Classmmates

    • Purpose: To let them know what you were working on, and what you found out, and what might be interesting to look at in the future

    • Style: For the Paper, academic; for the Presentation, informal
     

  • Length of Presentation
  • Audience for Your Presentation

    • Classmates (not the professor),

    • Or something like a "brown bag" luncheon presentation at your library to a mixed-group of curious individuals who normally attend more informal public lectures

    • Or students at the Student Presentations sections of the Central States Anthropological Society Annual Convention, or the annual regional convention of your major(s) [for example, Sociologists of Minnesota]

  • Purpose

    • To let your audience know what you were working on, and what you found out, and what might be interesting to look at in the future
  • Style
    • for the Presentation, it may be informal

    • Citation Conventions


      QUESTION: "When you put pictures in PowerPoint slides do you have cite them?"

      The basic rule is that one needs to cite everything used that is not of their own creation.  There are different ways to do that.

      For a presentation you can list the sources of the images on one or more slide (if you are using slides) at the end; that is, all of the references can be at the end; they do not necessarily have to be with each picture.

      If you are doing a web site, it is acceptable to link the picture to its source (which is the system I use on most of the images for the class web pages).

      • You can also add a link an image in a PowerPoint slide, but, in the end, that can be very confusing when a viewer or presenter clicks on an image accidentally and is taken away from the Presentation to the web site (or other source) of the picture.

    Have a look at the information below, and if you have any questions, please let me know.

    • images The use of images is one of the great strengths of using WebPages.  Images help explain your point, and they allow you to present information quickly, clearly and concisely.  And they generally make your work look more interesting.

    Identify your images with concise headings.

    When you include an image, place it as close as possible to the part of the text that it illustrates.  Place images in the most appropriate locations; do not simply add them at the beginning or the end of your paper.

    At the bottom of each image, include the source of information and any other relevant notes.  Make sure each image has an accurate title.
    images In your Presentation make sure each image has an accurate title.  And at the bottom of each image, include the source of information and any other relevant notes, but do that part in tiny fonts. 
    images

    Images help explain your point, and they allow you to present information quickly, clearly and concisely.  And they generally make your work look more interesting.  Number your images and include concise headings.  And you must have at least one reference to each illustration . . . in the text.

    credits    Somewhere in your paper you should include an identification of and credits for your cover image.  You can do this on the “Works Cites” or “References” page.  This information is usually not included on the cover page.

    Main Due Dates for Project Materials
    (You will be given reminders during the semester.)
         

    Week 2
    		su2025 Live Chat for Picking a Project Topic
    Week 2, Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 7:00-8:00 CDT Sign in on Canvas.
    These are optional. If you can not make them live e-mail or e-Zoom.
    Week 3   su2025 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by the end of Week 3, Sunday, 29 June 2025.

    Preparing Your "Informal Proposal"

    • Your topic/subject should be something that you, personally, are interested in
      • Your topic/subject can be almost anything you like, but it must be related to the Anthropology of Food course
      • Use materials from the textbook, class slides, and class videos--as a starting point to integrate class materials into your Project.

      • But the main focus of your project should be on materials that are not required for the class.

    • The informal "proposal" itself can be very straightforward:

    The Informal Proposal is a simple statement
    (preferably in a Word document) of . . .

    1. "Here's what I'm interested in doing. . . ."

    2. "Here's why I'm interested in that. . . ."

    3. "Here's what I think will be useful for that project. . . ."

    4. "What do you think?"

    Or . . .

    Your Informal Proposal can be something like . . .

    1. "I'm thinking about doing a project on X or Y, but can't make up my mind."

    2. "Here's what I'm interested in, and why. . . ."

    3. Here are some things that look like they might be useful for the project. . . ."

    4. "What do you think?"


    • "What I think will be useful" means that you should include 3 or 4 items like references to materials and activities (such as interviewing someone . . .) that you think would be helpful to your in working on your project. (No, you do not have to do an interview; that's just one possibility.)

    • "Items" can be articles, short videos, photographs, books, interviews, personal experience. . . .

    • If you include a reference to a source on the web, be sure to give its full reference (not just the URL). For a web page your full reference should look something like the one below (include as much of this material as is available for the site[s] you are looking at):

     

    Upload your file—one file—to your Canvas folder)

    • In order to upload your file please make sure that you save your Word file as a .docx or a .doc or a .rtf file.*

    • *Details on "Type of Files" are available in the "File Type Information" if you need more information on how to save your files on your computer.

    • Click on "upload assignment" button at the end of the Canvas assignment page.

      Once you have uploaded the file you can not re-upload the file unless you first remove the one you first uploaded.

      For more information regarding how to use the assignment tools, please view the Canvas Student User Guides

     

    A more formal statement (a "Promissory Abstract") of what you eventually decide upon isn't due for another two weeks. 

    Between now and then I will have a look at your informal proposal and give you some feedback on it, including instructions on how to proceed with your Promissory Abstract.)

    For the "Promissory Abstract" and "Working Bibliography" you need to use APA or MLA or Chicago/Turabian style or a standard scientific method.  Which of those you use is up to you.

    Additional information that might be helpful:

     http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/images/owl_purdue.gif
    "Understanding Writing Assignments" 
     

    "Problem / Project Statement / Proposal"

    su2025 Wk 4 Informal Project Statement, or Project Proposal (up to 20 points) due by the end of Week 3, Sunday, 29 June 2025.


    NOTE: Try to work an analytical section into your Presentation and Paper, and at least think about approaching your Anth of Food term Project from the traditional "four-field" approach of American Anthropology. If the "four-field" approach does not work as a major appoach, consider at least addressing in summary form the relationship of your chosen topic(s) to traditional American Anthropology.

    That is, whatever your topic, look at it through an Anthropological lens. For a review of what that's all about, have a look at the Main Characteristics of Anthropology slides (.pptx).

    When relevant to your topic be sure to work in what is happening now; that is, where appropriate, relate it to current affairs.

    And always keep in mind the basic elements of writing:

    • Audience: Classmmates

    • Purpose: To let them know what you were working on, and what you found out, and what might be interesting to look at in the future

    • Style: For the Paper, academic; for the Presentation, informal
    Week 5   su2025 Project's formal Promissory Abstract and Working Bibliography (up to 20 points) due by Sunday, 6 July 2025 . . . or soon thereafter (submit them together)
    Week 7   Your Presentation will be on-line.

    When relevant to your topic be sure to work in what is happening now; that is, where appropriate, relate it to current affairs.

    With your Presentation be sure to relate your Project materials to the materials considered in class.

    For e.g., if you are doing a project on the role of fire/cooking in prehistoric times include relevant items from Eating Culture, 2nd Edition, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and/or The Language of Food . . .

        

    and from the relevant class slides, for e.g., from Diet and Human Evolution: Introduction
    slides: (.pptx)



    and from the relevant class film(s), for e.g., from Did Cooking Make Us Human?

     

    Student Academic Integrity
    -- UMD Office of Academic Affairs (Effective: November 22, 2011)

    Use of AI-content generators for assignments in this class

    When I taught Advanced Writing for the Social Sciences here at UMD, for over twenty-five years, my rule of thumb advice to students was to plan to spend 60% or more of their time and effort revising drafts (for academic type writing).

    In 2001 Wikipedia appeared on the scene and very quickly became a useful tool as a starting point for many academic projects even though as an open-source resource the Wikipedia entries are not checked and verified in the same manner as other traditional reference materials.

    Spelling and grammar checkers arrived on the general scene and helped with spelling and grammar checking, but, as you no doubt have discovered, they continue to require human editing.

    And, of course, before that we had a selection of excellent Encyclopedia offering good starting points for many projects, the most popular being The Encyclopedia Brittanica.

    And long before that there were libraries--since at least the days of Alexandria in Egypt, in the third century B.C.

    The bottom line . . .

    Today the evolution of research resources and aids continues with the relatively rapid appearance of ChatGPT and other automated content generators.

    As many folks have already found out, they can be very useful as starting points, much like their predecessors. But, from the academic point of view, they are still only starting points.

    Professors nationwide are for the most part advised, and even encouraged, to experiment with the potentials of ChatGPT and similar apps.

    In this class it is fine to experiment, with the caveat that all of your written academic work demonstrates that your personal efforts—including content development and revision—reflect your personal originality, exploration, analysis, explanation, integrating and synthesizing of ideas, organizational skills, evaluation, and overall learning and critical thinking efforts.

    That is to say you may experiment with the AI tool to do tasks such as e.g, brainstorming, narrowing topics, writing first drafts, editing text, and the like. AI-generated works should in no case be more than that.

    In the end you need to become familiar enough with the various subjects, peoples, and places discussed in this class to research a topic and problem-solve on your own, and carry on an intelligent conversation about them in modern-day society . . . a conversation that goes byond your voicing an unsupported opinion.

    Please ask questions of and offer comments to
    e-mail
    troufs@d.umn.edu

    USEFUL LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION:

    For the record, what follows is the official UMD Academic Integrity Policy. Note that "unless otherwise noted by the faculty member" this is the default policy.

    "UMD’s Academic Integrity policy covers any work done by automated content generators such as ChatGPT or other generative artificial intelligence tools unless otherwise noted by the faculty member. These tools present new challenges and opportunities."

    "Within the confines of this class The use of AI-content generators is strictly prohibited for any stage of homework/assignment (e.g., draft or final product). The primary purposes of college are developing your thinking skills, being creative with ideas, and expanding your understanding on a wide variety of topics. Using these content generating AI tools thwarts the goal of homework/assignments to provide students opportunities to achieve these purposes. Please make the most of this time that you have committed to a college education and learn these skills now, so that you can employ them throughout your life." -- Jennifer Mencl, UMD Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, 10 May 2023

    Current information from the UMN Senate Committee on Educational Policy Resources

    <https://provost.umn.edu/chatgpt-syllabus-statements>

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