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Nutritional Anthropology

Author : Darna L. Dufour

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 532 pages

File Size : 17,28 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780199738144

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Revised for the first time in ten years, the second edition of Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition continues to blend biological and cultural approaches to this dynamic discipline. While this revision maintains the format and philosophy that grounded the first edition, the text has been revamped and revitalized with new and updated readings, sections, introductions, and pedagogical materials that cover current global food trade and persistent problems of hunger in equal measure. Unlike any other book on the market, Nutritional Anthropology fuses issues past and present, local and global, and biological and cultural in order to give students a comprehensive foundation in food and nutrition.



Nutritional Anthropology

Author : Norge W. Jerome

Publisher : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Redgrave Publishing Company

Page : 456 pages

File Size : 34,77 MB

Release : 1980

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN :

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Abstract: Nutritional states result from both biological and cultural forces. The consideration of nutritional problems from a biocultural perspective comprises the field of nutritional anthropology. Eleven papers are presented representing the efforts of researchers who have examined nutrition in this social context. Their theoretical approach combines the nutritional and social sciences in investigations of the sociocultural, cognitive and ecological aspects of food. The methodology of nutritional anthropology is applied in a study of women's roles in rural Africa. Human dietary adaptations in the evolution of human culture are investigated in a case study of 2 prehistoric populations. The food patterns of a contemporary group demonstrates nutritional adaptation and cultural maladaptation. Demographic effects of sex-specific diets and nutritional correlates of economic microdifferentiation are examined. Other topics deal with malnutrition, diet and acculturation, and health food movement.



Nutritional Anthropology

Author : Francis E. Johnston

Publisher :

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 27,57 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Medical

ISBN :

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Food Research

Author : Janet Chrzan

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 45,89 MB

Release : 2017-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1785332880

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Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.



Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology

Author : Gretel H. Pelto

Publisher :

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 25,44 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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This book is intended for both anthropologist and nutritionists who are pursuing community nutrition studies in either industrialized or developing countries. It provides solid information on the development and application of anthropological methodologies for studying key aspects of the nutrition of individuals, families, and communities.



Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Author : Janet Chrzan

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 795 pages

File Size : 41,29 MB

Release : 2017-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 178533364X

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The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.



Food Health

Author : Janet Chrzan

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 45,33 MB

Release : 2017-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1785332929

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Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.



Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology

Author : Carol R. Ember

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 1103 pages

File Size : 49,40 MB

Release : 2003-12-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0306477548

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Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.



Researching Food Habits

Author : Helen Macbeth

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 25,87 MB

Release : 2004-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1782386122

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The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology.



Consuming the Inedible

Author : Jeremy M. MacClancy

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 32,60 MB

Release : 2009-10

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 184545684X

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Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.