Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: MacClancy, Jeremy (Editor ), Henry, C. J. K. (Editor ), Macbeth, Helen M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Edición:First paperback edition.
Colección:Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 6.
Temas:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Diet.
Nutrition.
Ingestion.
Manners and customs.
Diet in disease.
Feeding Behavior > ethnology
Anthropology > methods
Cultural Characteristics
Diet
Food Preferences > ethnology
Pica > ethnology
Feeding Behavior
Food Preferences
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Habitudes alimentaires.
Préférences alimentaires.
Alimentation.
Mœurs et coutumes.
Régimes alimentaires.
diet.
customs (social concepts)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Nutrition.
MEDICAL > Nutrition.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Manners and customs
Ingestion
Diet in disease
Food habits
Food preferences
Nutrition
Pica > Essstörung
Kosthåll.
Matvanor.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Considering the inedible, consuming the ineffable / Jeremy MacClancy, Helen Macbeth and Jeya Henry
  • 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
  • Afterword : Earthy realism : geophagia in literature and art / Jeremy MacClancy.

Ejemplares similares