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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"foodways"”.
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Foodscapes, Foodways, and Nutrition Transitions in Urban Mexico
<p>The global surge in obesity and associated degenerative health conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, have potentially crushing consequences for households, communities, health systems, and national economies. Mexico has one of the highest prevalence levels of overweight and obesity in …
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Got Breadfruit? Marshallese Foodways and Culture in Springdale, Arkansas
… such as family ties. Studies of traditional foodways are increasingly crucial in social science because they offer a relevant lens for examining beliefs, behaviors, and other biocultural elements binding people together. This study is the first to examine traditional Marshallese foods in the …
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An Examination of Selected Ethnic Foodways in the Upper Midwest
… work, agriculture and diet. In many cases foodways and regional cuisine are distinct enough to act as a key identifier of a cultural region. This thesis uses church and other local cookbooks to identify specific ethnic and non - ethnic foods eaten by the Dutch of Northwestern Iowa, the …
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Afflictions of tradition: trends and consequences of traditional African American foodways
… social significance of African American foodways, known as soul food. Using personal narratives from former slaves and individuals recollecting American life during socially traumatic times, - including life under Jim Crow laws, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights movement …
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The proteomics of pottery and its residues: applications to ancient foodways
… residues may yield valuable evidence of ancient foodways. The results reveal that foodcrust is a better sample type for proteomics than ceramic, and that ingredients themselves impact preservation (and therefore detection) in the cooked, buried samples. I explore the physicochemical properties of …
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Plants And Foodways Of The Standing Rock Nation: Diversity, Knowledge, And Sovereignty
… are not learning to practice traditional foodways. Tribal agencies and local organizations facilitate gathering trips for youth to gain ecological knowledge from elders. A coalition of these groups also began organizing workshops for elders who wished to share their knowledge about …
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Cooking vessels and foodways in central Tyrrhenian Italy (350 BC - AD 550)
… central Tyrrhenian Italy to consider changes in foodways between 350 BC and AD 550. Morphological changes in cooking vessels are used as a basis for understanding consumer demand and local patterns of connectivity within Italy in response to changing historical trajectories. These are studied …
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Dig In! The Historical Archaeology of Gendered Foodways in Sulphur, Nevada, 1909-1959
This dissertation explores the gendered foodways--the actions, materials, and thoughts that affect and reflect people's ingestion of food--of 20th-century residents of Sulphur, a former mining and railroad town in northwest Nevada. Archaeologists have long recognized the critical role that food …
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A Taste of Rhetoric: Moves & Practices in the Decolonization & Restoration of Historic Foodways
… in language frames for both Black and White foodways in the American South, as well as the Great Lakes Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy. Through the author’s positioning as a white woman explained through autoethnography techniques, this study explores how these three rhetorical theories …
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Y'all eat: Foodways, performative regional identity, and the South in the twenty-first century
<p>"Y'all Eat: Foodways, Performative Regional Identity, and the South in the Twenty-first Century" examines the ways in which iconic Southerners--Jim Beam and his ilk, Colonel Harland Sanders, and Paula Deen--create and sustain the hypercontemporary South. Because of their media exposure and place …
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West African Food Traditions in Virginia Foodways: A Historical Analysis of Origins and Survivals.
… culture, particularly in African-Amercian foodways, focuses on the lower south, neglecting the upper south. This thesis fills that gap by identifying West African traits in African-as well as Anglo-America foodways in Virginia, focusing on four broad research areas: Native American and …
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Exploring culturally meaningful definitions of justice and resilience through the lens of sovereign Indigenous foodways
In this thesis I explore frameworks of environmental justice, food justice, and community resilience that center Indigenous communities and their perspectives. First, I conducted an integrative literature review on environmental injustice that uniquely impacts Indigenous communities, specifically …
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'The Man' In the Kitchen: Government Attempts to Change Foodways In the Rural 1930S South
… home demonstration programs, attempted to change foodways in the rural South during the Great Depression under the New Deal government. It argues that the federal government became more broadly and actively involved in the lives of Southern farm women, but that these women, in their interests, …
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Cafeteria, Commissary and Cooking: Foodways and Negotiations of Power and Identity in a Women’s Prison
<p>This study uses foodways theory to build knowledge about the lived experience of incarceration by analyzing women’s narratives about prison food and eating. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 formerly incarcerated women in New Haven, CT. The interviews were digitally recorded and …
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Consumption in the American Mining West: substitute and complement goods in the foodways of Aurora, Nevada
… This inquiry seeks to understand household level foodways as well as community foodways patterns in Aurora, Nevada during the late 1800s. The conclusions are inferred from archaeological evidence and are extrapolated to broadly understand towns across the American Mining West. Ultimately, foodways …
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Foodways of the mid-18th century Cape : archaeological ceramics from the Grand Parade in central Cape Town
… the most basic cultural traditions involving the foodways of early Capetonians. It has been found: that the typological framework for the ceramic analysis set out in this thesis, is successful in interpreting the ceramics; that the ideological functions of the ceramics remain a less tangible …
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A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina
… social settings are reflected in pre-Columbian foodways practices and to define a Belmont Neck phase ceramic assemblage. I propose consumption practices at Mississippian villages will approximate those from Late Woodland villages in central South Carolina. I also propose that because mound …
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Bread-making cultures and foodway changes of rural communities in the northern Cederberg, South Africa
Traditional foodways are under threat. Historical factors, such as the legacy effects of profound racial discrimination and the pressures of rapid modernisation, have had severe consequences for the foodways of marginalised populations. The globalised agricultural and food system operates in a …
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Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D.C.
… more blurred. To ground my claim, I examine Thai foodways and they way they manifest within this fluidly diasporic group. Based on data gathered during three months of participant observation, interviews, and surveys within a sample of twenty-five people, I found that cooking and eating are often …
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