Consuming the Inedible : : Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice /

Consuming the Inedible : : Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice / / ed. by Jeremy M. MacClancy, Jeya Henry, Helen Macbeth.

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Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychologi...

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MitwirkendeR:
Black, Rachel,
Blum, Paul,
Cantarero, Luis,
Collinson, Paul,
Deraga, Daria,
Fernández, Rodolfo,
González Turmo, Isabel,
Grivetti, Louis E.,
Henry, Jeya,
Hladik, Claude Marcel,
Hooda, Peter,
Hubbard, Peter,
Jesús Portalatín, María,
Krief, Sabrina,
MacClancy, Jeremy,
Macbeth, Helen,
Matalas, Antonia-Leda,
Medina, F. Xavier,
Messer, Ellen,
Prasad, Ananda S.,
Schiefenhövel, Wulf,
Strungaru, Carmen,
Tena, Martín,
Young, Sera L.,
Ávila, Ricardo,
HerausgeberIn:
Henry, Jeya,
MacClancy, Jeremy M.,
Macbeth, Helen,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Anthropology of Food Nutrition ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION CONSIDERING THE INEDIBLE, CONSUMING THE INEFFABLE
  • 1. EVIDENCE FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF THE INEDIBLE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND WHY?
  • 2. CONSUMING THE INEDIBLE: PICA BEHAVIOUR
  • 3. THE CONCEPTS OF FOOD AND NON-FOOD PERSPECTIVES FROM SPAIN
  • 4. FOOD DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES EATING CONSTRAINTS AND HUMAN IDENTITIES
  • 5. A VILE HABIT? THE POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF GEOPHAGIA, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO IRON
  • 6. THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN ZINC DEFICIENCY A REFLECTIVE JOURNEY BACK IN TIME
  • 7. GEOPHAGIA AND HUMAN NUTRITION
  • 8. CONSUMPTION OF MATERIALS WITH LOW NUTRITIONAL VALUE AND BIOACTIVE PROPERTIES NON-HUMAN PRIMATES VS HUMANS
  • 9. LIME AS THE KEY ELEMENT A ‘NON-FOOD’ IN FOOD FOR SUBSISTENCE
  • 10. SALT AS A ‘NON-FOOD’ TO WHAT EXTENT DO GUSTATORY PERCEPTIONS DETERMINE NON-FOOD VS FOOD CHOICES?
  • 11. NON-FOOD FOOD DURING FAMINE THE ATHENS FAMINE SURVIVOR PROJECT
  • 12. EATING GARBAGE SOCIALLY MARGINAL FOOD PROVISIONING PRACTICES
  • 13. EATING CAT IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
  • 14. INSECTS: FORGOTTEN AND REDISCOVERED AS FOOD ENTOMOPHAGY AMONG THE EIPO, HIGHLANDS OF WEST NEW GUINEA, AND IN OTHER TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES
  • 15. EATING SNOT SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE BUT COMMON: WHY?
  • 16. CANNIBALISM NO MYTH, BUT WHY SO RARE?
  • 17. FROM EDIBLE TO INEDIBLE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, FAMILY SOCIALISATION AND UPBRINGING
  • 18. THE USE OF WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE FERMENTATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
  • AFTERWORD EARTHY REALISM: GEOPHAGIA IN LITERATURE AND ART
  • INDEX

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