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Title

Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice / edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry, and Helen Macbeth.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• MacClancy, Jeremy
• Henry, C. J. K.
• Macbeth, Helen M.
• International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.

Description

xiv, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Anthropology of food and nutrition v. 6.

Subject

• Food habits > Congresses
• Food preferences > Congresses
• Diet > Congresses
• Nutrition > Congresses
• Feeding Behavior > ethnology
• Anthropology > methods
• Cultural Characteristics
• Diet
• Food Preferences > ethnology
• Pica > ethnology
• Feeding Behavior
• Food Preferences
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

Note

• Based on contributions to a conference held in June 2005 at Oxford Brookes University, organized by members of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Evidence for the consumption of the inedible : who, what, when, where and why? / Sera L.Young -- Consuming the inedible : pica behaviour / Carmen Strungaru -- The concepts of food and non-food : perspectives from Spain / Isabel González Turmo -- Food definitions and boundaries : eating constraints and human identities / Ellen Messer -- A vile habit? the potential biological consequences of geophagia, with special attention to iron / Sera L. Young --
• The discovery of human zinc deficiency : a reflective journey back in time / Ananda S. Prasad -- Geophagia and human nutrition / Peter Hooda and Jeya Henry -- Consumption of materials with low nutritional value and bioactive properties : non-human primates vs. humans / Sabrina Krief -- Lime as the key element : a 'non-food' in food for subsistence / Ricardo Ávila, Martín Tena and Peter Hubbard -- Salt as a 'non-food': to what extent do gustatory perceptions determine non-food vs. food choices? / Claude Marcel Hladik --
• Non-food food during famine : the Athens famine survivor project / Antonia-Leda Matalas and Louis E. Grivetti -- Eating garbage : socially marginal food provisioning practices / Rachel Black -- Eating cat in the north of Spain in the early twentieth century / F. Xavier Medina -- Insects : forgotten and rediscovered as food : entomophagy among the Eipo, highlands of West New Guinea, and in other traditional societies / Wulf Schiefenhövel and Paul Blum --
• Eating snot : socially unacceptable but common. why? / María Jesús Portalatín -- Cannibalism : no myth, but why so rare? / Helen Macbeth, Wulf Schiefenhövel, and Paul Collinson -- From edible to inedible : social construction, family socialisation, and upbringing / Luis Cantarero -- The use of waste products in the fermentation of alcoholic beverages / Rodolfo Fernández and Daria Deraga.

ISBN

• 9781845453534 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1845453530 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007043682

OCLC

156834465

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library