Food, Culture, and Identity
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This course explores the intricate relationships between food, culture, and identity across diverse societies. Students will examine how food practices and traditions are shaped by historical, social, and cultural forces, and how they in turn influence notions of community, ethnicity, religion, and personal identity. Through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and case studies, participants will analyze the symbolic meanings of food, the impact of globalization on culinary traditions, and the role of food in expressing and negotiating cultural identities. The course encourages critical reflection on the ways that food choices and rituals contribute to the construction and maintenance of individual and collective identities.
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Food and Culture 7th Edition by Pamela Goyan Kittler
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Chapter 1: Food and Culture
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Q1) When considering diet in the context of other cultures, food habits can be classified according to nutritional impact.Which category of food habits is the first factor that should be considered?
A) Neutral food behaviors
B) Food behaviors that have harmful effects
C) Food use that has positive health consequences and should be encouraged
D) Food habits that are unclassified
E) Compatibility with the client's traditional health beliefs and practices
Answer: C
Q2) Give a specific example that reflects a health disparity associated with an ethnicity in the United States today.
Answer: Accrding to a 2004 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National diabetes statistics report, American Indians/Alaska Natives (15.9%)are twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites (7.6%)to be diagnosed with adult Diabetes.
Q3) Urbanization of a population is associated with maintenance of traditional food habits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices
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Q1) Healers in the American South who specialize in communicating with spirits or saints through ceremonial invocation and may also use herbal preparations are called
A) witch doctors.
B) voodoo practitioners.
C) root doctors.
D) curadernos.
E) Shamans.
Answer: B
Q2) What is the term for addressing the experience of illness, alleviating the infirmities of the sick, and responding to the personal, familial, and social issues surrounding sickness?
A) cure
B) holistic medicine
C) treatment
D) healing
E) seeking care
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication
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Q1) In many high-context cultures with large power distances, the role of the patient is to follow the medical advice given by the doctor, who is the expert.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Approximately how many different nonverbal gestures have been identified?
A) 100
B) 700
C) 7000
D) 1000
E) 5000
Answer: C
Q3) hold group membership as more important than the individual.
A)Low-context cultures usually
B)High-context cultures usually Answer: B
Q4) High-context cultures are seldom found among homogeneous populations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Food and Religion
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Q1) The dietary laws that are a part of the Islamic religion are called halal, and they are exactly the same as the Jewish kosher laws.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Where did Hinduism originate?
A) India
B) China
C) Middle East
D) Eastern Europe
E) Greece
Q3) What self-described religious affiliation is identified by the highest percentage of the population in the U.S.?
A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Jewish
D) Buddhism
E) Agnosticism
Q4) Discuss briefly the similarities of Protestantism and Buddhism.
Q5) Compare the meat-slaughtering laws associated with halal and kashrut.
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Chapter 5: Native Americans
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Q1) Of the following, which is one of the three major centers of Native American culture observed in the 17th century?
A) Five Civilized Tribes
B) Hopi
C) Artic
D) Sioux
E) Chippewa
Q2) Whale muktuk can be preserved by rolling it in herbs (with no salt)and fermenting it in a pit for several months to make a treat known as kopalchen.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the staple food source of the Plains Indians?
A) bison
B) horses
C) acorns
D) corn
E) salmon
Q4) Briefly discuss why sharing food is an important aspect in most Native American societies today.
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Chapter 6: Northern and Southern Europeans
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Q1) While it was traditional for Spain and Italy to celebrate religious feast days, this custom is no longer followed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Many of the mainstream American worldviews, such as family structure and view of food and health, are typical of the
A) Italians.
B) Irish.
C) Spanish.
D) British.
E) Portuguese.
Q3) Chouriço
A)An Irish Sunday supper item
B)A French lunch item
C)An Italian lunch item
D)A Basque dinner item
E)A Portuguese breakfast item
Q4) Mardi Gras is celebrated in France just before the start of the Lenten season.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Central Europeans - People of the Former Soviet
Union - and Scandinavians
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Q1) Kielbasa
A)Germany
B)Russia
C)Hungary
D)Poland
Q2) Gulyás
A)Germany
B)Russia
C)Hungary
D)Poland
Q3) Which secular Scandinavian holiday features maypoles, bonfires, and feasting on June 24?
A) June Day
B) Advent Day
C) St. Lucia's Day
D) Midsummer's Day
E) St. Ansgar Day
Q4) How did the political relations between the FSU and the U.S.affect Russian acculturation?
Q5) Briefly describe three waves of immigration from Russia to the U.S.
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Chapter 8: Africans
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Q1) A peanut candy found in West Africa is called what?
A) togbei
B) kanya
C) gari
D) cassava
E) chin-chins
Q2) Climate and geography are suited for farming and ranching
A)West African
B)Ethiopian
C)East African
D)South African
Q3) The incidence of low-birthweight infants is 12.4% among African Americans.What is thought to be a likely cause?
A) high prevalence of pre-pregnancy overweight
B) large number of middle-age pregnancies
C) inadequate prenatal care
D) low fruit and vegetable intake
E) smoking cigarettes during pregnancy
Q4) What changes in lifestyle were seen when blacks moved from the rural south to the urban north in the 1900s?
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Chapter 9: Mexicans and Central Americans
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Q1) The origins of Mexican cuisine is least likely to stem from the A) Aztec.
B) French.
C) Viennese.
D) Malays.
E) Spanish.
Q2) What is an example of an Americanized Mexican food created by Tex-Mex cuisine?
A) nachos
B) taco
C) enchilada
D) shredded beef
E) tamales
Q3) One unique Central American immigrant population in the U.S.consists of black Caribs from the eastern, coastal areas of Belize and Honduras.What term describes this population?
A) Honduran
B) Pan-Latino
C) Mayan
D) Garifuna
E) Mestizos
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Chapter 10: Caribbean Islanders and South Americans
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Q1) In general, the population of the Caribbean Islands would be described as ethnically homogeneous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What does the term for the Puerto Rican concept of family-compadrazgo-mean?
A) my brother
B) family first
C) coparenting
D) polygamous
E) family unit
Q3) Immigrants from Cuba escaping Fidel Castro's regime in the late 1950s and early 1960s were typically
A) lower income.
B) middle income.
C) higher income.
D) released prisoners.
E) communists.
Q4) Maté is a beverage commonly drunk in South America that is made as a tea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: East Asians
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Q1) Often fully assimilated into the American society; their great-grandparents were the last generations born in Japan.
A)Issei
B)Nisei
C)Sansei
D)Yonsei
Q2) Which of the following is a majority religion in South Korea?
A) Confucianism
B) Taoism
C) Shintoism
D) Catholicism
E) Protestantism
Q3) Name at least three of the Japanese patterns of conduct (originating in the 16th century)expected by the Issei of themselves and their descendants.
Q4) Age-adjusted mortality rates for Korean Americans are much higher than for the general population.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders
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Q1) Where would you find Spam to be a commonly eaten meat?
A) Micronesia
B) Hawaii
C) Guam
D) Tonga
E) Malaysia
Q2) Which islands is part of the Melanesia region of the South Pacific?
A) Guam, Kiribati, Nauru, the Marshall Islands
B) Hawaii, American Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti
C) Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands
D) Guam, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Marshall Islands
E) Hawaii, Philippines, Tahiti, Java, Sumatra
Q3) Bitter herbs
A)Sweet
B)Sour
C)Salty
D)Balance
Q4) Samoans believe eating the wrong foods can cause dislocation of the to'ala.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: People of the Balkans and the Middle East
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Q1) Common cooking method of sautéing and simmering with tomato sauce
A)Souvlaki
B)Yiachni
C)Moussaka
D)Tahini
E)Ful medames
Q2) What is Israel's Independence Day called?
A) Yom Ha-Atzma'ut
B) Eid al-Fitr
C) Kurban Bayram
D) Krsna Slava
E) Apokreas
Q3) Nearly all recently-arrived Bosnian refugees in the United States are
A) Muslim.
B) Christian.
C) Hindu.
D) Jewish.
E) Buddhist.
Q4) Are Middle Easterners high-context or low-context? How does this affect health care communications?
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Chapter 14: South Asians
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Q1) Indo-Americans consider which form of medicine to be the most potent?
A) capsules
B) injections
C) tablets
D) colored tablets
E) tinctures
Q2) Which kind of food is considered innately polluted based onthe Hindu concept of pollution as applied to food?
A) all raw foods
B) shellfish
C) root vegetables
D) fruit
E) meat
Q3) Pakistan received its independence from India in what year?
A) 1876
B) 1910
C) 1947
D) 1962
E) 1859
Q4) Describe the major variations in how vegetarianism is practiced in India today.
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Chapter 15: Regional Americans
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Q1) The American South is notable for its high numbers of Protestants.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why might one use the regional divisions of the country as defined by the U.S.Census Bureau and U.S.Department of Commerce in reporting on regional food patterns in America? What are the advantages?
Q3) What is the main commodity in Alaska?
A) reindeer
B) game
C) seafood
D) gold
E) oil
Q4) What is meant by the term "local history" when describing foods in an area?
Q5) Need to fry ham and save the drippings to make this
A)Red-eye gravy
B)Rocky Mountain oysters
C)Booyaw
D)Pasties
E)Lutefisk
Q6) What factors are associated with the development of a regional cuisine?
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