Food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chrzan, Janet (Editor), Brett, John A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Series:Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Nutritional anthropology > Research > Methodology.
Food habits > Research > Methodology.
Public health > Research > Methodology.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Anthropologie de l'alimentation > Recherche > Méthodologie.
Habitudes alimentaires > Recherche > Méthodologie.
Santé publique > Recherche > Méthodologie.
Archéologie > Méthodologie.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diet & Nutrition > Nutrition.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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