Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition: Volumes I-III

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Title: Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition : Volumes I-III

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Contents 2
Figures and Tables
SECTION I Introduction and Research Ethics
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
Research Ethics in Food Studies
SECTION II Nutritional Anthropology
CHAPTER 1 Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology: Section Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition
CHAPTER 3 Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living: Established Methods and New Directions
CHAPTER 4 Dietary Analyses
CHAPTER 5 Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation in Public Health Nutrition: Illustrations from the World of Infant and Young Child Feeding
CHAPTER 6 Primate Nutrition and Foodways
CHAPTER 7 Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality
SECTION III Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits
CHAPTER 8 Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research: Section Introduction
CHAPTER 9 Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts: Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical, and Molecular Approaches
CHAPTER 10 Methods for Reconstructing Diet
CHAPTER 11 Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups
CHAPTER 12 Research on Direct Food Remains
CHAPTER 13 If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An Evolutionary and Global Perspective on Human Diet and Nutrition
CHAPTER 14 Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition
Index
Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies
Contents 3
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
Introduction to Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies
Research Ethics in Food Studies
SECTION IV Socio-Cultural Approaches
CHAPTER 1 The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology: A Sociocultural Perspective
CHAPTER 2 Interviewing Epistemologies: From Life History to Kitchen Table Ethnography
CHAPTER 3 Studying Body Image and Food Consumption Practices
CHAPTER 4 Visual Anthropology Methods
CHAPTER 5 On the Lookout: The Use of Direct Observation in Nutritional Anthropology
CHAPTER 6 Participant-Observation and Interviewing Techniques
Chapter 7 Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research
CHAPTER 8 Studying Food and Culture: Ethnographic Methods in the Classroom
SECTION V Linguistics and Food Talk
SECTION V Linguistics and Food Talk
CHAPTER 10 Food Talk: Studying Foodways and Language in Use Together
CHAPTER 11 An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research: Free Lists and Pile Sorts
CHAPTER 12 Food and Text(ual) Analysis
CHAPTER 13 Analysis of Historic Primary Sources
SECTION VI Food Studies
CHAPTER 14 Introduction to Food Studies Methods
CHAPTER 15 Meaning-Centered Research in Food Studies
CHAPTER 16 Food and Place
CHAPTER 17 Sensory Ethnography: Methods and Research Design for Food Studies Research
CHAPTER 18 Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and Alternative Trade
CHAPTER 19 The Single Food Approach: A Research Strategy in Nutritional Anthropology
Index
FOOD HEALTH
Contents 4
Tables and Figures
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set: Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
Introduction to Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Research Ethics in Food Studies
Section VII Public Health and Nutrition
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
CHAPTER 2 Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation
CHAPTER 3 Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development
CHAPTER 4 Methods for Community Health Involvement
CHAPTER 5 Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
CHAPTER 6 Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
CHAPTER 7 Food Praxis as Method
SECTION VIII Technology and Analysis
CHAPTER 8 Using Technology and Measurement Tools in Nutritional Anthropology of Food Studies
CHAPTER 9 Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology
CHAPTER 10 Photo-Video Voice
CHAPTER 11 Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy
CHAPTER 12 Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet
CHAPTER 13 Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
CHAPTER 14 Designing Food Insecurity Scales from the Ground Up: An Introduction and Working Example of Building and Testing Food Insecurity Scales in Anthropological Research
Index

Contributor: Albala, Ken [Contributor]; Arias-Steele, Sara [Contributor]; Black, Rachel E. [Contributor]; Borre, Kristen [Contributor]; Brenton, Barrett P. [Contributor]; Brett, John [Contributor]; Brett, John [Editor]; Cavanaugh, Jillian R. [Contributor]; Chaiken, Miriam S. [Contributor]; Chrzan, Janet [Contributor]; Chrzan, Janet [Editor]; Counihan, Carole [Contributor]; Devine, Sharon [Contributor]; Dufour, Darna L. [Contributor]; Esterik, Penny Van [Contributor]; Goodman, Alan H. [Contributor]; Gross, Joan [Contributor]; Hadley, Craig [Contributor]; Himmelgreen, David A. [Contributor]; Jenike, Mark [Contributor]; Johnson, Caley A. [Contributor]; Lieberman, Leslie Sue [Contributor]; Livengood, Sarah V. [Contributor]; Long, Lucy M. [Contributor]; Marten, Meredith [Contributor]; Messer, Ellen [Contributor]; Metheny, Karen Bescherer [Contributor]; Monge, Janet M. [Contributor]; Moore, Katherine M. [Contributor]; Moreno-Black, Geraldine [Contributor]; Nichter, Mimi [Contributor]; Otañez, Marty [Contributor]; Paxson, Heather [Contributor]; Pelto, Gretel H. [Contributor]; Piperata, Barbara A. [Contributor]; Pérez, Ramona L. [Contributor]; Pérez, Ramona Lee [Contributor]; Riley, Kathleen C. [Contributor]; Romero-Daza, Nancy [Contributor]; Rothman, Jessica M. [Contributor]; Taylor, Nicole [Contributor]; Trubek, Amy B. [Contributor]; Tucker, Catherine M. [Contributor]; Turner, Bethany L. [Contributor]; Tuthill, Emily [Contributor]; Vallianatos, Helen [Contributor]; Weaver, Lesley Jo [Contributor]; Weaver, William Woys [Contributor]; Wiley, Andrea S. [Contributor]; Wilson, James [Contributor]; Wright, Patti J. [Contributor]; Young, Alyson [Contributor]; Young, Sera [Contributor]; Zycherman, Ariela [Contributor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2017]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (770 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781785333644

ISBN: 9781785333644

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Keywords: Food habits Methodology Research ; Nutrition Research Methodology ; Nutritional anthropology Research Methodology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

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Footnote: In English

Description: The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health

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