Science Question

Post ID: 3390105

For your Week 3 paper, explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one named society of your choosing among foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists.

• To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook. • What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? What is typical in an American family’s meal? What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? How much of the Thanksgiving meal is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family? What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal? How does that compare with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal? • Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society of your choosing. The society you choose must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading (Shearn, 2020). What does a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society? • Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways. The paper must be formatted in APA Style, with an APA-Style title page, page numbers in the upper right, headings, parenthetical in-text citations, and a reference page. The headings must be centered on the line and formatted in bold and in title case. Include at least the following headings: Thanksgiving Holiday American Foodways, Foodways of (name the foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society), and Conclusion. • Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper.

Optional: Get ahead! Receive specialized writing feedback by submitting your paper for review.

Click here to begin the review process.Links to an external site.

Rubric

Week 3: Foodways Assignment_ANT300

Week 3: Foodways Assignment_ANT300
Criteria	Ratings	Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeObservations (25%)Submission includes detailed observations of foodways of American Thanksgiving holidays and of foodways of a non-industrial society.	25 pts Exemplary (25%) Meets all guidelines with no errors. 20 pts Accomplished (20%) Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors. 18 pts Acceptable (18%) Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors. 15 pts Inadequate (15%) Does not meet the guideline. 0 pts No Submission	25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAnalysis (50%)Paraphrases or quotations from the textbook are included to support points. Paraphrases or quotations from at least one outside scholarly source are included to support points. Foodways of Americans at Thanksgiving and of a non-industrial society are compared and contrasted in detail.	50 pts Exemplary (50%) Meets all guidelines with no errors. 45 pts Accomplished (45%) Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors. 35 pts Acceptable (35%) Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors. 30 pts Inadequate (30%) Does not meet the guideline. 0 pts No Submission	50 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA (15%)Assigned number of sources are included in the submission. Research cited is credible, scholarly, recent, and relevant. Citations (both full and in-text) are in standard APA formatting, both within the body of the paper, and in a clear and corresponding full-citation on a separate references page.	15 pts Exemplary (15%) Meets all guidelines with no errors. 13 pts Accomplished (13%) Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors. 10 pts Acceptable (10%) Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors. 5 pts Inadequate (5%) Does not meet the guideline. 0 pts No Submission	15 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormatting (10%)Submission meets length requirement. Submission is in standard APA formatting (12 pt font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins)	10 pts Exemplary (10%) Meets all guidelines with no errors. 8 pts Accomplished (8%) Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors. 6 pts Acceptable (6%) Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors. 4 pts Inadequate (4%) Does not meet the guideline. 0 pts No Submission	10 pts

Total Points: 100

Week 3: Discussion - 2025-2-ANT300-01 Group 4

Describe (and compare and contrast) the gender or sexual division of labor of two different cultures that have two different modes of subsistence (from the four modes of subsistence described in this week’s reading; foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, or agriculture). You must choose the two societies from examples in the Week 3 textbook reading and you must name the two societies from the Week 3 textbook reading and cite them.
How do your chosen examples of two different cultures show that subsistence systems are linked to cultural expectations about gender roles?
Engage in a discussion, with another class member, regarding how each of you have seen or experienced gender or sexual division of labor in your personal and/or professional lives.
Chapter 5: Subsistencein Brown,Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020)Listen
Listen to this under-5-minute audio piece and its accompanying article about how food companies watch what Americans eat, and how they employ anthropologists to study what Americans eat:
https://www.marketplace.org/2013/12/02/how-food-co...
References
Ryssdal, K. (Host). (2013, December 2). How food companies watch what you eat.
Marketplace [Audio podcast episode]. In Marketplace. Minnesota Public Radio.
https://www.marketplace.org/2013/12/02/how-food-co... to an external site.
Shearn, I. (2020). Subsistence. In N. Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez
(Eds.), Perspectives: An open introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 96-118).
American Anthropological Association.
Subsistence and Making a Living
Cultural anthropologists define economic systems as including three interrelated processes: livelihood (or production), consumption, and exchange. They divide cross-cultural patterns of making a living into five major types, or modes, recognizing that these categories are somewhat artificial: foraging, horticulture, pastoralism, agriculture, and the industrial/digital economy. Humans have been foragers since the beginning of their existence. Horticulture and pastoralism emerged around 12,000 years ago and settled farming emerged about the same time. The industrial/digital economy is a matter of a few hundred years.
- Foraging relies on collecting food that is available in nature. In foraging societies, the division of labor is based on gender and age, with temperate foragers having more gender overlap in tasks than circumpolar foragers. All group members have equal rights to resources. Foraging has long-term sustainability when not affected by outside pressure.
- Horticulture and Pastoralism are extensive strategies that depend on domesticated plants (horticulture) and animals (pastoralism). Horticulture requires fallowing, and pastoralism requires the constant movement of animals to fresh pastures. The division of labor varies, including situations in which men do more productive work, those where women do more work, and those in which work-loads are shared between men and women. Use rights are the prominent form of property relations. Both have long-term sustainability when not affected by encroachments.
- Family Farming systems produce crops for their own use and for sale in the market. Most family farming systems involve more male labor in the fields and more female labor in the domestic domain. Agriculture’s sustainability is limited by the need to replenish the land and inputs to it.
- Industrial/Digital societies, the division of labor is highly differentiated by class, gender, and age. Widespread unemployment is found in many industrial economies. In capitalist societies, private property is the dominant pattern. The industrial/digital economy lacks sustainability, given its high demand for nonrenewable energy and precious minerals.
Foragers are being incorporated into settled economies as their access to land is constricted by outside forces and as governments force them to stay in one place. Horticulture and pastoralism, too, are under pressure from the competing economic forms of agriculture and industrialism. The industrial/digital economy is constantly changing in response to innovations related to new technology and communication that involve virtual workplaces and the rapid movement of information.
ReferencesShearn, I. (2020). Subsistence. In N. Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez (Eds.), Perspectives: An open introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 96-118).American Anthropological Association.
for discussion you should use attachment