Short Paper on Nutrition (OCM 146)

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Overview
Exercise ID: 3.4
Class size: Any
Level(s): II
Source: Submitted by HRAF member


Learning Objectives

Does the exercise compare 2 or more cultures? Yes
Subject selection: Single subject specified by teacher
Subjects/OCMS, if applicable: Nutrition (OCM 146)
Region selection: open (student choice)
Region, if applicable: Various
Culture selection: Student chooses from entire collection
Cultures/OWCs, if applicable:
Samples:

Classroom Guide

Instructions for navigating eHRAF included? Yes
Assignments for students to complete in groups? No
Assignments for students to complete on their own? Yes
Instructions for Microfiche version? No
 

Brad Huber, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston

Note by the editors: Dr. Huber uses this short paper assignment as extra credit.

Goal: The goal of this project is to have you do a little research on the topic of nutrition using eHRAF World Cultures (eHRAF), a database that College of Charleston (CofC) subscribes to.

Note: I’ll add up to 5 pts. to your third exam for this assignment. Extra-credit is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, April 25th, the last day of class.

Introduction

eHRAF stands for the electronic collections of HRAF. HRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, a non-profit institution founded in 1949 at Yale University. HRAF is a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies. Its mission is to encourage and facilitate the comparative study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject.

Assignment

Using the online version of the HRAF, write a paper that discusses Nutrition (OCM 146) in two cultures. Nutrition could include topics such as: malnutrition and dietary deficiencies; adequacy of the diet of subgroups and of the population as a whole; chemical analyses of native foods; etc.    Your paper should be typed, double-spaced, have a bibliography, and be between 3-4 pages long.

To find this information, in the eHRAF World Cultures at http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu database click on Advanced Search then Add Subjects to find the OCM subject 146 Nutrition and perform a cross-cultural search.

View the eHRAF User Guide on how to use the database.

Citing eHRAF documents

You should include a standard bibliographic reference for the material, i.e.
Appadurai, Arjun
1996 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Don’t forget to include page numbers when citing material in the text! You should also include the basic retrieval statement for an on-line database: Retrieved [month day, year,] from [source] on-line database ([name of database], [item no.–if applicable]).