Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition : : Volumes I-III / / ed. by Janet Chrzan, John Brett.

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 co...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Other title: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 Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and 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 --
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 --
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 --
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
Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781785333644
9783110998214
DOI:10.1515/9781785333644?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Janet Chrzan, John Brett.