Write a paper on Ritual Meal Analysis.

, you are asked to reflect on and analyze a family ritual meal in which you participated from an anthropological perspective. You may choose any major ritual meal to analyze, EXCEPT for Thanksgiving. You might choose a meal that your loved ones prepare to signify a religious holiday, a birthday or coming of age celebration, a special family get-together, or any other special meal event or occasion where people come together to mark an event that follows some basic social/cultural rules about how (when, why, who, what) the event is meant to happen. The ritual needs to include a meal that is mostly home-cooked, not a meal that you go out for in a restaurant. While the ritual meal may include items purchased pre-prepared, you will need to choose a meal that you and your loved one mainly prepare and serve themselves. Some examples (depending on your own family background) include: Easter, Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, Passover, coming-of-age feast (e.g., quinceañera), Midsommer, Chuseok, New Year, Superbowl Sunday, July 4th BBQ, Mother’s Day, Día de Muertos, Eid al-Adha, Karamu, or shraadha. Note: traditions that are only practiced in your family are not ritual meals because the underpinning of what the event means is not shared more widely within society. Also a food is not a meal. (So, for example, turkey is not a ritual meal, and so on. It is just an element of a Thanksgiving ritual meal).