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The
Cultural Context of the Pasty Iteration 3.0
The Upper
Peninsula of Michigan contains a vast and interesting cultural history.During
the peak of mining several European cultures all coexisted in this region.With
this "melting pot" a lot of cultural traditions merged, and sometimes altogether
disappeared.However, there was
one item that managed to survive and in many ways is the symbol of this
region, the pasty.From the early
Cornish days of mining till now, the pasty has survived a lot including
the collapse of mining in the U.P.Yvonne
Hiipakka Lockwood in her 1986 article for Folklife Annual, said it best
when she said, "What is called a Cornish pasty elsewhere is an Upper Peninsula
pasty in Michigan, for pasty's symbolic meaning changed from ethnic to
multi-ethnic and finally regional."The
purpose of the Cultural Context of the pasty is to examine the pasty's
cultural shift in both a historical and present day perspective.
Group Members: Luke
Miller- Computer Science Undergraduate Marc
Westergren – Electrical Engineering Undergraduate |
