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> Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism Reference Chera, Madeline. 2019. “Judging Non-Judgement: Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism,” 20th Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, April 2019.
Tamil Nadu
Susan Seizer and I co-authored a paper using our two specialty foci to discuss the socio-linguistic significance of the inclusive "we" and "our" in Tamil culture.
Gender
I shared research on young women college students in Tamil Nadu and their views on global and local food systems at the Transecting Healthy and Sustainable Food in the Asia-Pacific Workshop, at Yale-National University of Singapore, in August 2018.
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Multiple Ideologies in Local and Traditional Food Advocacy in Tamil Nadu, India
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> Exploring the Relationship Between Tamil Folk Dietetics and Nutrition Science Reference Chera, Madeline. 2015. "Granny's Legitimacy: Exploring the Relationship Between Tamil Folk Dietetics & Nutrition Science." Paper presented in "Nutritional Practices & Cultural Models of Health," Society for the Anthropology of Food &
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> Notes on Snack Culture in South India Reference Chera, Madeline. 2015. “Between Meals and Meanings: Notes on Snack Culture in South India.” Paper presented in "Place, Consumption, and Health," at the Association for the Study of Food and Society and Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society joint
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> Health in Heritage or Food to Leave in the Past? Reference Chera, Madeline. 2014. “Millet Madness: Health in Heritage or Food to Leave in the Past?” Paper presented in “Less Palatable, Still Valuable: Taste, Agrobiodiversity, and Culinary Heritage,” Executive Session, at the American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Washington,
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> Considering Delight in Dietary Diversity As Potential Contributor to Health Reference Chera, Madeline. 2012. “Variety as the Spice of Life: Considering Delight in Dietary Diversity as Potential Contributor to Health." Paper presented in “Pleased to Eat You: Exploring the Scope of Pleasure in the Foodscape,” at American Anthropological
Food Studies
I presented at the Eighth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in Nov. 2011. The Symposium was entitled Food for Thought, and was focused on food.