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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Albala, Ken,; Arias-Steele, Sara,; Black, Rachel E.,; Borre, Kristen,; Brenton, Barrett P.,; Brett, John,; Cavanaugh, Jillian R.,; Chaiken, Miriam S.,; Chrzan, Janet,; Counihan, Carole,; Devine, Sharon,; Dufour, Darna L.,; Esterik, Penny Van,; Goodman, Alan H.,; Gross, Joan,; Hadley, Craig,; Himmelgreen, David A.,; Jenike, Mark,; Johnson, Caley A.,; Lieberman, Leslie Sue,; Livengood, Sarah V.,; Long, Lucy M.,; Marten, Meredith,; Messer, Ellen,; Metheny, Karen Bescherer,; Monge, Janet M.,; Moore, Katherine M.,; Moreno-Black, Geraldine,; Nichter, Mimi,; Otañez, Marty,; Paxson, Heather,; Pelto, Gretel H.,; Piperata, Barbara A.,; Pérez, Ramona L.,; Pérez, Ramona Lee,; Riley, Kathleen C.,; Romero-Daza, Nancy,; Rothman, Jessica M.,; Taylor, Nicole,; Trubek, Amy B.,; Tucker, Catherine M.,; Turner, Bethany L.,; Tuthill, Emily,; Vallianatos, Helen,; Weaver, Lesley Jo,; Weaver, William Woys,; Wiley, Andrea S.,; Wilson, James,; Wright, Patti J.,; Young, Alyson,; Young, Sera,; Zycherman, Ariela,
• HerausgeberIn: Brett, John,; Chrzan, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (770 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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