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Decolonizing the diet : nutrition, immunity, and the warning from early America /
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering with native American s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Nutrition and Immunity in Native America: A Biological and Historical Controversy
- Chapter 1. The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death
- Chapter 2. More Than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies from the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact
- Chapter 3. Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750
- Chapter 4. Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950
- Epilogue Decolonizing the Diet: Food Sovereignty and Biodiversity.
- Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter Int-Epilogue; Introduction; Conceptual and Moral Minefields between the Humanities and Science; Chapter 1 The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death; Expanding the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: Evolutionary Nutritional Interactions ... ; Immunity, Inflammation and the Evolution of Nutritional Needs; Evolutionary Health and the Rise of Neolithic Agriculture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
- Mitigating Nutritional Degradation through Genetic or Societal Adaptations: A Neolithic ... The Medieval European Model of Nutrition and Contingency; Chapter 2 More than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies From the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact; The Earliest Indigenous North American Subsistence Strategies; The Positive and Negative Consequences of Maize Intensification in Native America; Adapting to Agricultural Intensification through Continued Hunting and Gathering; Southeast North America; Southwest North America; The Northeast Atlantic, New England and Iroquois Country
- From the Great Plains to the Great Basin; Ancient and Precontact California; The Pacific Northwest before Contact; Precontact Alaska and Arctic North America; Chapter 3 Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750; Beyond Virgin Soils: Nutrition as a Primary Contingent Factor in Demographic Loss; New Ways to Approach the Link between Nutrition and Immunity; Nutritional Degradation and Compromised Immunity in Postcontact Florida: Understanding ... ; Nutritional Degradation and Immunity in the Postcontact Southeast: Framing ...
- Nutritional Degradation in the Postcontact Southwest, the Great Plains and the Great ... Nutritional Degradation in the Postcontact Northeast, New England and Iroquois ... ; After the Revolution; Chapter 4 Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950; The Insulin Hypothesis and Immunity in Native America after Contact; Shattered Subsistence in California and the Pacific Northwest in the Eighteenth and ... ; Shattered Subsistence in Alaska in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Seasonal ... ; Epilogue; From Compromised Immunity to Autoimmunity in the Modern Era
- From Native America to North America: Compromised National Nutritional Guidelines; Modern Tribal Sovereignty as a Model for American Biodiversity and Public Health; End Matter; Notes; Introduction. Nutrition and Immunity in Native America: A Biological and Historical Controversy; 1 The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death; 2 More than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies From the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact; 3 Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750
- 4 Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950