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Assignments:
1. Students will compile very specific recipes for production of at least one food dish that is considered to be characteristic of each of the major cultures within the Mekong region. Select one of these dished and try to make it to share in class. Photograph the raw ingredients, the production process, and the final product, then place the photo essay into the assignment page as a Picasa slide show. (Picasa is free and very easy to use. It can be downloaded from http://picasa.google.com/.)
curries in SE Asia vs. India
[kwb] It is not just the food. You have to know how to eat it. Here is a link to a discussion of how you eat in a Lao setting.
Lien's Dumpling Making (Chinese food)
ดอกเงี้ยว Dong Ngaew dried flower on the left corner. The upper brown paper is fermented soybean paper.
These twos are signature ingredients for Northern style cooking. [NC]
[NC] Oldest noodle 4000 BP from China.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/blast-from-the-pasta/2005/10/13/1128796653453.html [NC]
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Receipe and characteristics of traditional Laos tam mak hung (Green Papaya Salad)
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Define the terms "home range" and "cognitive mapping."
Home range
[ln] Home range is known as fairly confined areas where most animals live in and they enact their day-to-day activities. Based on definition of a mammal’s home range of Burt (1943:351), home range is defined: “that area traversed by the individual in its normal activities of food gathering, mating, and caring for young”.
Members of many species have cognitive maps of where they live or concepts of where different resources and features are located within their home ranges and of how to travel between them (Peters 1978).
Boitani, L., & Fuller, T. K. (2000). Research techniques in animal ecology: Controversies and consequences (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press (pp. 65-66). [ln]
Cognitive mapping
[arb] A cognitive map is a representation of the way a people represent the world in their minds. It describes the way in which a people view the relationship between different observations, and use “rules of thumb” to sort huge amounts of information into usable groups and ideas. A nice, well cited summary of this can be found in wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_map). The article by Toupal (2003) shows how descriptions of cognitive maps can be used to describe the relationship between multiple cultures sharing a common environment, in this case public lands in Arizona, which makes this a useful tool for ethnobotanical science.
Toupal, Rebecca S. (2003) Cultural Landscapes as a Methodology for Understanding Natural Resource Management Impacts in the Western United States
. Conservation Ecology. 7 (1): 12
[NC] "...Cognitive mapping is a technique to use for operational researchers working on a variety of different tasks. These tasks include; providing help with structureing messy or complex data for problem solving, assisting the interview process by in creasing understanding and generating agendas, and managing large amounts of qualitative data from documents. Whilst Cognitive Mapping is often carried out with individuals on a one to one basis it can be used with groups to support them in problem solving..."
Akermann, Fran. Eden, Colin and Cropper, Steve. 1990. Cognitive Mapping: A User's Guide. Working paper. 90/2, University of Strathclyde.[NC]
3. You will need to find and read an article on traditional foods in one of the Mekong countries of SE Asia. This should basically be about the roles of foods, food plants or animals in defining cultures. This will be briefly presented in class.
[ln] Popkin, B. M., & Du, S. (2003). Dynamics of the nutrition transition toward the animal foods sector in China and its implications: A worried perspective. The Journal of Nutrition, 133, 3898S-3906S. [ln]
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Price, Lisa. and Ogle, B. 2008. Gathered Indigenous Vegetables in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Gender Asset. In Elmhirst, R., Resureccion, B. Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions. Earthscan Publications.
Price, Lisa. 1997. Wild plant food in agricultural environments: a study of occurrence, management and gathering rights in Northeast Thailand. Human Organization(2): 209-221.
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[arb] Nguyen, My Lien T. (2007) Community Dynamics and Functional Stability: A Recipe for Cultural Adaptation and Continuity. Economic Botany. 61(4): 337-346
[fig] Little, D.C., Surintaraseree, P., Innes-Taylor, N. 1996. Fish culture in rainfed rice fields of Northeast Thailand. Aquaculture. 140(4):295-321. [fig]
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Ogle, Britta M.; Tuyet,
Ho Thi; Duyet, Hoang Nghia; and Nguyen, Nhut Xuan Dung. 2003. Food, Feed or Medicine: The Multiple Functions of Edible Wild Plants in Vietnam. Economic Botany 57(1):103-117.
(Article Review attached below)
Ogle, Britta M. ; Dao, Ha Thi Anh ; Mulokozi, Generose ; Hambraeus, Leif. 2001. Micronutrient Composistion and Nutritional Importance of Gathered Vegetables in Vietnam. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 52(6): 485-499.
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[mr] Roder, W., et al. 1996. Glutinous Rice and Its Importance for Hill Farmers in Laos. Economic Botany 50(4): 401-408. [mr]
[tli] Aree, Patcharaporn, Vichai Tanphaichitr, Wandee Suttharangsri, and Kathyrn Kavanagh. 2004. Eating behaviors of elderly persons with hyperlipidemia in urban Chiang Mai. Nursing and Health Sciences 6: 51-57. [tli]
4. Submit draft of poster for concept approval by instructor. Must have approval of draft.
5. Be sure to have read and be able to present at least two papers for the class in 2-5 minutes.
6. Submit a written review of one article following the instructions provided by the instructor. Attach your reviews below; hard copies will not be accepted. Be sure to upload your articles (not just links). The evaluation rubric has also been posted.
[mr] Mansfield, S. 2005. Lao Hill Tribes: A Race with Oblivion. Critical Asian Studies 37(2): 277-288.
Thongmanivong S. and Y. Fujita. 2006. Recent Land Use and Livelihood Transitions in Northern Laos. Mountain Research and Development 26(3): 237-244. [mr]
[arb] Review of Nguyen (2007) (see attachment)
(link to original paper)
[arb second paper] Smith, Erica A. (2001) On The Coevolution of Cultural, LInguistic, and Biological Diversity. On Biocultural Diversity: Linking language, Knoledge, and the Environment. Ed. Maffi, Luisa. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
[ln] Heinonen, U. 2004. Integrated and socially just water resources management in lower Mekong River region and Cambodia - How to control water related rural push?. Helsinki University of Technology, 171(+ 3).
[tli] Gorman, Chester F. 1969. Hoabinhian: A Pebble-Tool Complex with Early Plant Associations in Southeast Asia. Science 163 (3868): 671-673.
Review of Gorman's article [tli]
[fig] Kaewsarn P., Moyle, W., Creedy, D. 2003. Traditional Postpartum Practices Among Thai Women. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 41(4):358-366. Review. [fig]
[NC] Price, Lisa. 1997. Wild plant food in agricultural environments: a study of occurrence, management and gathering rights in Northeast Thailand. Human Organization(2): 209-221. Lisa 1997 review.doc [NC]
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