UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Duluth Campus Department of Anthropology, 228 Cina Hall

Sociology & Criminology 1123 University Drive

College of Liberal Arts Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3306

Office: 218-726-7551

http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth

Email: socath@d.umn.edu

1 December 2019

Understanding Global Cultures Weeks 15-16

LAST CALL: If you have not yet submitted a question to the Final

Exam Question Wiki, please do that today . . . at . . .

1. News features of the week . . .

2. Student Presentations Student Presentations Tuesday

3. Real People . . . Real Places . . .

Video: The End of the Line

(85 min., CC, 2010; time permitting)

4. Course In-class Evaluation

5. Wrapping it All Up

6. Final Exam

7. Favorite and Least Favorite Things

8. Assignments and Events

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1. News features of the week . . .

Tuesday . . .

Finland > Quinn

Sweden > tba____

Denmark > Camryn

Thursday . . .

Caribbean > Rebeca

Thailand > Ly

Vietnam > tba____

N/S Korea > Sarah M.

Japan > Lexi

2. Student Presentations

Keep in mind what I said earlier on about your Presentations, viz., that they are

intended to be a report on work in progress, that is, basically, a rough draft of

your ideas that should eventually make their way into your final Term Paper.

The class Presentations WebPage, if you would like to review, is at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/fspresentations.html#title>

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REM: Please upload your Presentation audiovisual file (if you have one)

by 10:00 a.m. the day of your Presentation.

Student Presentations Tuesday

Time Name Topic

11:00-11:15 Quinn

tbd________

Camryn

Finland News

Sweden News

Denmark News

11:15-11:30 Payton J. tba

11:30-11:45 Ly C. Korean Music

Industry

11:45-12:00 Sara M. tba

12:00-12:15 Hannah M. tba

12:15-12:30 Malachi G. tba

12:30-12:45 Camryn H. tba

Carter S.

tba

Student Presentations Thursday

Time Name Topic

11:00-11:15 Rebeca

Ly

Camryn

Caribbean News

Thailand News

Denmark News

11:15-11:30 tba_________

Sarah M.

Lexi

Vietnam News

N/S Korea

Japan

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3. Real People . . . Real Places . . . (Time Permitting)

(85 min., CC, 2010)

The international politics of

dead fish stink.

And you can observe a lot about how Global Cultures work by

looking at the world fishing industry.

You’ll see that on-line this week in The End of the Line: How

Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat.

Some argue that food politics in general stink.

In the U.S.A. we have lots of freedoms, except, in

practice, for most, the freedom to know what’s in the

foods we eat, and thus the freedom to choose to then

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eat those particular foods or not. (You can argue, of course, that

one can always grow their own non-GM foods, that is if you can find seeds

uncontaminated by GM crops grown in neighboring fields.)

Some argue that in the U.S.A. the question of who

chooses what we can eat is itself one of the major

questions involved in Food Politics.

Food politics is everywhere. You can’t escape it. You

can’t miss it, regardless of the Unit of Analysis that you’re

looking at—global, international, regional, national,

state/provincial, local, and even down to the neighborhood

“food deserts” of American (U.S.A.) inner cities (remember “units of

analysis” from Weeks 1-2?). Our focus this week is on the state/provincial

and national levels.

For a fair, objective, and

comprehensive presentation of Food

Politics, have a look at . . .

Nestle, Marion. Unsavory Truth: How Food Copanies Skew the Science of What We

Eat. NY: Basic Books, 2018

Nestle, Marion. Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics.

NY: Rodale Books, 2013.

Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences

Nutrition, Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of

California Press, 2013.

Nestle, Marion. Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010.

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Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Berkeley, CA:

University of California Press, 2010.

Nestle, Marion. Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning).

Oxford University Press, 2015.

And for a rebuttal, of sorts, have a look at . . .

Paarlberg, Robert. Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. NY:

Oxford University Press, 2010.

["For a biased assessment of global food politics, Robert Paarlberg's Food Politics

ought to be called on the carpet for its lack of transparency. The subtitle, What

Everyone Needs to Know, alleges that the reader will be informed about the

multiple dimensions of a complex global problem. Instead, the book leans heavily

toward the perspective of large, industrialized agriculture. The author also fails to

present his complete biography (found online in a quick Google search), which

includes being a member of the Biotechnology Advisory Council to the CEO of the

Monsanto Company. . . ." Sacramento Book Review—May 24, 2010.]

Class Fish WebPage

4. Course In-class Evaluation

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This week we will do a brief in-class evaluation,

which is a supplement to the one which our IT folks

sent to you on-line.

Please complete both of them carefully and thoughtfully

as they are very important to this class,

and to the Department and College

Thursday we will take time to step back and reflect on the semester,

and make some suggestions for next time around. This week we ask you to

reflect on the course itself, and tell us what you think by evaluating the course

and its parts. Please take time to respond to those requests. Your responses are

very useful and helpful to us, and to the operations of the Department and

University. We look to you for suggestions for improvement in the future, and

various administrators look to and at the results for program and performance

evaluations and for the future planning of course offerings. Course evaluations

are one of the few places where you can have a real influence on how the

University operates in the future.

Course Evaluation

ANTH

Course # = 1080

Section 001

Course Call # = tba

Semester = (3) Fall

Year = 19

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REM: Information Technology Systems & Services (ITSS) will be sending you an

Invitation to Participate in an Online Course Evaluation.

Evaluations are important to me, the Department Head, and the Dean,

as well as everyone in our Department.

Please fill the online Course Evaluation out carefully.

Evaluations are anonymous, and will not be seen by the instructor

until final grades for this course have been recorded.

Thanks.

5. Wrapping it All Up

Summary / Review

One good way to review is to go back over all of

the “What’s Happening?” weekly memos, and

use them as study notes for the Final Exam. You

can find them all listed under “Announcements”

in your Canvas folder.

The end is in sight. . . .

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6. Final Exam

The Live Chat for the Understanding Global

Cultures Final Exam will be on Wednesday, 11

December 2019, 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Save-the-Date. Pencil it in now.

The Final Exam will be as described, and like the Midterm exam, it is

“open book.” There should be no surprises. The cut-to-the-chase

bottom line of the exam is . . .

You must answer the four (4) questions on the final randomly

generated by from the pool of questions put together from the

study questions on the annotated Week 14

discussions section. Each question is worth up to 100 points each. They

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may include . . .

A current affairs question

And questions made up from the Study Questions in the Final

Exam Question Discussion, which you can find at Week 14

So use the Annotated Wiki Contributed Question List from

Week 14 as a Study Guide. Be sure to note my comments.

~

f2019 Week 16: The Understanding

Global Cultures Final Exam will be

in Cina 214

Thursday

12 December 2019

10:00-11:55

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However, you may take the

exam earlier during Final

Exam week. Details in class on

Thursday.

REM: Bring your Laptop

Other details on the Final Exam are at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/exams_final.html#title>.

7. Favorite and Least Favorite Things

Reflect, Review, Re-View

Discussion: My Favorite Understanding Global

Cultures . . . And My Least Favorite (Due by the end of the term—Friday, 13 December 2019)

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Finally, have a look at the world Food Clock

<https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/g43242>. . .

Take a couple of minutes to have a look at the FAO*

World Food Clock [including food and water waste]

*The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

scroll down once you start the World Food Clock

to see all of the items featured

8. Assignments and Events . . . this week are listed on your ”Calendar”.

REM: Links on screenshots are not “hot” (active/live)

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Term Paper

If you haven’t received your Term Paper back with my comments, you

should be receiving it shortly. It takes quite a while to read those and make

careful and extensive comments on them, so please be just a little patient.

In the next two weeks I get to read and evaluate around 500 final exams, term

papers, forum postings, and final projects. As you can imagine, that takes quite a

bit of time—so have patience. I’ll be working at them pretty much continuously

for the next two-and-a-half weeks. But, having said that, if you have any

questions about any of those, please feel free to e-mail: mailto:troufs@d.umn.edu.

If you have any questions right now, please do not hesitate to post

them on the Course “Chat”, or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu,

or stop by before or after class, across the hall in Cina 215.

Best Regards,

Tim Roufs <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/