Assignment task: Describe a concrete and particular event or chain of events that revolve around the ingredient procurement, cooking (and/or teaching to cook), serving, eating, and/or commenting on food, in a context that involves kin, relatives, family (all adopted, fictive, symbolic, or not) in reference to the reading of Levi Strauss- food and culture, Ruben- the traffic in women and Mahmud, Lilith. 2014 in anthropology. You must choose an event that you witnessed as an audience or participant.
Offer your interpretation and analysis of this scene.
The analysis should include your key to interpreting the scene that you've described in the previous section. Possible questions to address in the analysis:
- What meanings did different parties to the interaction project onto the event (possibly in the dimensions of gifting and of ritual) and onto the event?
- What terms of relatedness/kinship/family did each of the parties projects onto the interaction - were there any differences of choice, perspective, or focus in the use of these terms?
- How did people use the interaction to make, break, or reshape relationships (and did it work?)
- What conceptions about society, life, social order, and justice did people's actions and/or declarations reveal?
- Cite at least 4 authors including Levi Strauss- food and culture, Ruben- the traffic in women, Mahmud