My Professor Doug White's Homepage: ANTHROPOLOGY 179
PROPOSAL
For my oral-web presentation, I would like to focus on food and culture. I will present my information in the context of how food shapes gender social relationships. Aside from food's biological necessity, it also serves a social necessity. Food sustains life while at the same time it symbolizes social life and cultural identity. The responsibilities of males and females in their roles in the production, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food in their society reflects their status in that society. In many cultures, food habits also reflect an individual's means of manipulation and power - to censure, to reward, to encourage, and to control other members of the society, usually members of the opposite sex. As I hope to point out, there is tremendous variation in the food habits within many cultures. It is these food habits that lend diversity to the ways in which men and women define themselves and each other.
As a graduating senior in Social Sciences
with a specialization in Research and Analytical
Methods, here are some of my favorite sites for
research in the Social Sciences:
Institue for Social Research - a University of Michigan website for research resources in the Social Sciences
Social Sciences Virtual Library - a University of Florida website of online resources relevant to the Social Sciences
The following sites are in the areas of my research:
Food
For Thought
- a mailbase intended as a forum
for discussions on all aspects of
food and eating across different disciplines
Food
Habits Bibliography - provided
by Robert Dirks, Anthro Program, Illinois State Univ
Yams
and Papua New Guinea - a little tidbit of information
on the importance of yams in Papua
New Guinea - provided by lonelyplanet.com
FOOD AND GENDER RELATIONS ACROSS CULTURES
GENDER
STEREOTYPES IN TELEVISON - this
is a link to a research paper I did in a
course entitled Sociology of Gender
This site last updated: 24 November 1998