BACKGROUND:The purpose of this assignment is to give you hands-on experience in conducting participant-observation in a cultural context. Additionally this assignment will allow you to gather and interpret your own data on food and culture in the same way that a cultural anthropologist would do. You will select a public space that focuses on food (e.g. grocery store restaurant farmers’ market) in which you can conduct observations and participate as much as is appropriate and possible. You will document your observations and experiences. After the participant-observation is complete you will expand reflect on and analyze your initial notes. Ideally you should choose a place that is of a different cultural context than your own (e.g. an ethnic restaurant different from your own ethnicity) and where you have not been before. It will be easier to take notes on things that are new to you than something you see every day.
Possible places to conduct your observations include:an ethnic food market a public religious meal a farmers’ market an ethnic restaurant or the food section of a street fair or carnival. You need to pick a place that will allow you to make observations and record notes of people eating drinking cooking shopping for or preparing food.
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