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Food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods /

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chrzan, Janet (Editor ), Brett, John A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Colección:Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition ; v. 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Design in biocultural studies of food and nutritional anthropology : section introduction / Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata
  • Nutritional anthropometry and body composition / Leslie Sue Lieberman
  • Measuring energy expenditure in daily living : established methods and new directions / Mark Jenike
  • Dietary analyses / Andrea Wiley
  • Ethnography as a tool for formative research and evaluation in public health nutrition : illustrations from the world of infant and young child feeding / Sera Young and Emily Tuthill
  • Primate nutrition and foodways / Jessica Rothman and Caley Johnson
  • Food episodes/social events : measuring the nutritional and social value of commensality / Janet Chrzan
  • Archaeological food and nutrition research : section introduction / Patti Wright
  • Researching plant food remains from archaeological contexts : macroscopic, microscopic, chemical, and molecular approaches / Patti Wright
  • Methods for reconstructing diet / Bethany Turner and Sarah Livengood
  • Nutritional stress in past human groups / Alan Goodman
  • Research on direct food remains / Katherine Moore
  • If there is food, we will eat : an evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition / Janet Monge
  • Experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and the application of archaeological data to the study of subsistence, diet, and nutrition / Karen Bescherer Metheny.