ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Assimilation, Sweatpants, Table Manners
9 Dec 2020
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How do cultures from different parts of the world integrate and trade habits, t trade symbols, how do they overlap each other, the way cultures blend w/ eac. How different cultures negotiate the differences btw them. For the narrator of the story, its about the function memory. "the way that women"s lives are expressed in literature at this moment" (2016) Thein says that w/ this story, she"s concerned w/ ^ Cultural markers: food, clothing, housing, daily rituals simple recipes, which is another for a story very focused on the relationship between food c identity, social customs, the distinction between social customs in different plac. A story focused on the "anthropology of food" The theory of food / anthropology of food. Anthropologists view food habits as tools with which to understand cult societies, especially when situated in the context of global and historica connections. The way we approach food is often linked to economic systems, theorie theories of gender, status.
