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Title

Researching food habits : methods and problems / edited by Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Macbeth, Helen M.
• MacClancy, Jeremy

Description

xiii, 214 p. : ill., 1 map; 23 cm.

Summary

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.[publisher].

Series Statement

Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Anthropology of food and nutrition v. 5.

Subject

• Food Preferences
• Diet
• Anthropology > methods
• Feeding Behavior
• Food habits
• Food preferences
• Anthropology > Methodology
• Nutritional anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food Jeremy MacClancy and Helen Macbeth -- Chapter 1. Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity Igor de Garine -- Chapter 2. Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants Attila T. Szabó -- Chapter 3. Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach Annie Hubert -- Chapter 4. {u2018}Tell me what you eat and you will tell me who you are{u2019}: Methodological Notes on the Interaction between Researcher and Informants in the Anthropology of Food F. Xavier Medina -- Chapter 5. Food, Identity, Identification Jeremy MacClancy -- Chapter 6. Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research? Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars -- Chapter 7. Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates Bruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel Hladik -- Chapter 8. Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists Helen Macbeth and Fiona Mowatt -- Chapter 9. Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Chapter 10. Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth -- Chapter 11. The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure Patrick Pasquet -- Chapter 12. Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Isabel González Turmo and José Mataix Verdú -- Chapter 13. Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands Nancy J. Pollock -- Chapter 14. Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based Identity Ellen Messer -- Epilogue: Some Final Hints Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy

ISBN

• 1571815449 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1571815457 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003063589

OCLC

• 52948103
• SCSB-10391659

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library