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Researching food habits : methods and problems /

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....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Macbeth, Helen M. (Editor ), MacClancy, Jeremy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Colección:Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food Jeremy / MacClancy and Helen Macbeth
  • Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity / Igor de Garine
  • Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants / Attila T. Szabó
  • Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach / Annie Hubert
  • "Tell me what you eat and you will tell me who you are": Methodological Notes on the Interaction between Researcher and Informants in the Anthropology of Food / F. Xavier Medina
  • Food, Identity, Identification / Jeremy MacClancy
  • Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research? / Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars
  • Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates / Bruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel Hladik
  • Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists / Helen Macbeth and Fiona Mowatt
  • Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition / Stanley J. Ulijaszek
  • Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists / Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth
  • The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure / Patrick Pasquet
  • Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Isabel González Turmo and José Mataix Verdú
  • Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands / Nancy J. Pollock
  • 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.