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Research methods in nutritional anthropology

Title
Research methods in nutritional anthropology / edited by Gretel H. Pelto, Pertti J. Pelto, and Ellen Messer.
Publication
Tokyo, Japan : United Nations University, ©1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Pelto, Gretel H.
  • Pelto, Pertti J.
  • Messer, Ellen, 1948-
  • United Nations University.
Description
xvi, 201 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Food and nutrition bulletin. Supplement ; 11
Uniform Title
Food and nutrition bulletin. Supplement ; 11.
Subject
  • Nutritional anthropology > Research > Congresses
  • Nutritional anthropology > Methodology > Congresses
  • Anthropology
  • Food habits
  • Nutrition
  • Anthropology
  • Feeding Behavior
  • Nutrition Surveys
  • Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  • anthropology
  • Anthropologie
  • Données statistiques
  • Recherche nutritionnelle
  • Nutrition
  • Food habits
  • Nutritional anthropology > Methodology
  • Nutritional anthropology > Research
  • Anthropologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Ernährungsgewohnheit
  • Ernährung
  • Nutrition > Anthropological aspects > Research
  • Food habits > Research
  • NUTRITION RESEARCH
  • CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
  • MATHEMATICAL MODELS
  • FOOD HABITS
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "Papers were presented at a UNU-sponsored workshop held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in November 1983"--T.p. verso.
  • "WHTR-9/UNUP-632"--T.p. verso.
  • UN sales publications E.89.III.A.4.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Methods for studying determinants of food intake / Ellen Messer -- Strategies of field research in nutritional anthropology / Pertti J. Pelto -- Methodological procedures for analysing energy expenditure / Judith Nydon and R. Brooke Thomas -- The relevance of time-allocation analyses for nutritional anthropology / Ellen Messer -- Cultural patterning and group-shared rules in the study of food intake / Judith G. Goode -- Elementary mathematical models and statistical methods for nutritional anthropology / Michael C. Robbins and Linda Coffman Robbins.
ISBN
  • 9280806327
  • 9789280806328
LCCN
91117764
OCLC
  • ocm20924827
  • 20924827
  • SCSB-2042719
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library