Food Research : : Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods / / ed. by Janet Chrzan, John Brett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Brett, John,; Chrzan, Janet,; Devine, Sharon,; Dufour, Darna L.,; Goodman, Alan H.,; Jenike, Mark,; Johnson, Caley A.,; Lieberman, Leslie Sue,; Livengood, Sarah V.,; Metheny, Karen Bescherer,; Monge, Janet M.,; Moore, Katherine M.,; Piperata, Barbara A.,; Rothman, Jessica M.,; Turner, Bethany L.,; Tuthill, Emily,; Wiley, Andrea S.,; Wright, Patti J.,; Young, Sera,
• HerausgeberIn: Brett, John,; Chrzan, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)

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 history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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