Nutritional Anthropology
Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition
Alan H. Goodman, Darna L. Dufour, Gretel H. Pelto
400 pages, parution le 01/01/2000
Résumé
- A balanced discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of the field with a broad look at examples of nutritional anthropology in action.
- A holistic view of nutritional anthropology that incorporates cultural and biological approaches, including a look at what our ancestors ate and what their nutrition might mean for us.
- A broad range of articles: from popular to scholarly, from the beginnings of the field in the 1970s to contemporary pieces, and with a wide ethnographic and geographic spread.
- Ample pedagogical support including part and article introductions, guiding questions that precede the articles, suggestions for further reading, and suggestions for doing nutritional anthropology.
Contents
Part I. A Taste of Nutritional Anthropology
Part II. The Quest for Food: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives- The Biological Baseline
- Agriculture: The Great Revolution
- Variations in Contemporary Food Systems: Pluses and Minuses
- Explaining Foodways: Materialist Approaches
- Explaining Foodways: Ideology, Symbolism, and Social Power
- Adapting Foods to People and People to Foods
- Food as Medicine
- Undernutrition: Counting, Classifying, and Consequences
- Dietary "Delocalization" and Development
- Cultural Ecology of Infant Feeding
- Undernutrition, Overnutrition, and Hunger in Lands of Plenty
Appendix B: Some Principles: Nutrition ABCs, Measurement, and Classification
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Mayfield |
| Auteur(s) | Alan H. Goodman, Darna L. Dufour, Gretel H. Pelto |
| Parution | 01/01/2000 |
| Nb. de pages | 400 |
| Format | 21,6 x 27,6 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 813g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780767411974 |
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