Human diet and nutrition in biocultural perspective : past meets present /

There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humanking than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moffat, Tina, 1967- (Editor ), Prowse, Tracy Lynn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Colección:Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 5.
Temas:
Food habits.
Diet.
Nutrition.
Diet in disease.
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Diet
Feeding Behavior
Sociobiology
Habitudes alimentaires.
Alimentation.
Régimes alimentaires.
diet.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a biocultural approach to human diet and nutrition / T. Moffat, T. Prowse
  • 1. What did humans evolve to eat? Metabolic implications of major trends in hominid evolution / W.R. Leonard, M.L. Robertson, J.J. Snodgrass
  • 2. Child growth among southern African foragers in the past / S. Pfeiffer, L. Harrington
  • 3. Infant and young child feeding in human evolution / D.W. Sellen
  • 4. The use of stable isotope analysis to determine infant and young child feeding patterns / T.L. Dupras
  • 5. A community in transition : deconstructing breastfeeding trends in Gibralter, 1955-1996 / L.A. Sawchuk, E.K. Bryce, S.D.A. Burke
  • 6. Dietary diversity, dietary transitions, and childhood nutrition in Nepal : questions of methodology and practice / T. Moffat, E. Finnis
  • 7. Responses to a food crisis and child malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel / R.E. Casiday, K.R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick, K. Kilpatrick
  • 8. Growth, morbidity, and mortality in antiquity : a case study from Imperial Rome / T. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli, R. Macchiarelli
  • 9. Examining nutritional aspects of bone loss and fragility across the life course in bioarchaeology / S.C. Agarwal, B. Glencross
  • 10. Obesity : an emerging epidemic : temporal trends in North America / P.T. Katzmarzyk
  • Conclusion : diet and nutrition in biocultural perspective : back to the future / T. Prowse, T. Moffat.

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