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Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice /
Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, inter-disciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psycholog...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
2009.
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| Edición: | First paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Anthropology of food and nutrition ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, inter-disciplinary 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857455338 0857455338 |