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Answer one of the following questions: 1. The anthropologist Maurice Bloch states, ‘In all societies, sharing food is a way of establishing closeness, while, conversely, the refusal to share is one of the clearest marks of distance and enmity’ (Bloch 1999: 139). Provide some examples of the way sharing food establishes and reproduces social relations. 2. Outline at least two anthropological theories of food taboo. For example, you might wish to compare Mary Douglas and Marvin Harris’s analysis of the Old Testament’s prohibition on pork consumption. 3. What is the relationship between food and gender? 4. Writer Michael Pollan argues that we have come to ‘devalue cooking’. Write an essay exploring the value of cooking. You may wish to consider the sensory, mnemonic, and embodied dimensions of cooking. 5. We have seen that a single commodity can provide a window onto broader historical and cultural processes. Select a food or drink such as coffee, sugar, chocolate, corn, beer, the soya bean etc and reveal this single commodity’s entanglements. 6. We need to change the way we eat. Discuss. 7. Food is intimately involved in processes of migration and global mobility. Discuss the relationship between food, migration, mobility, ethnicity and memory, drawing on select case studies. 8. National cuisines are ‘constructed’ according to Arjun Appadurai. What does he mean by that? Explore the process of constructing a national cuisine, using specific case studies. 9. What does food and eating have to do with questions of social class? 10. Since the 1990s, the Australian media has talked of an 'obesity crisis'. Is ‘crisis’ a useful way of understanding bigger bodies? How might bigger bodies be understood differently? Your short essay should be 1200 words in length (- or + ten per cent is acceptable). The reference list is not included in the word count. It is worth 25 percent of your overall grade. Your short essay is due via Turnitin on Friday April 23 11:59pm. Sources: You should cite at least four sources in total. Most of the questions can be answered using unit materials - you are expected to use both the required and extended readings available in Leganto. However, some of the questions necessitate original research. Don't hesitate to reach out to Eve to discuss your sources if you hold any doubts.