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Author Mailer, Gideon, author.

Title Decolonizing the diet : nutrition, immunity, and the warning from early America / Gideon A. Mailer and Nicola E. Hale
Published London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 343 pages)
Contents Introduction: Nutrition and Immunity in Native America: A Biological and Historical Controversy -- Chapter 1. The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death -- Chapter 2. More Than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies from the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact -- Chapter 3. Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750 -- Chapter 4. Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950 -- Epilogue Decolonizing the Diet: Food Sovereignty and Biodiversity
Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter Int-Epilogue; Introduction; Conceptual and Moral Minefields between the Humanities and Science; Chapter 1 The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death; Expanding the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: Evolutionary Nutritional Interactions ... ; Immunity, Inflammation and the Evolution of Nutritional Needs; Evolutionary Health and the Rise of Neolithic Agriculture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Mitigating Nutritional Degradation through Genetic or Societal Adaptations: A Neolithic ... The Medieval European Model of Nutrition and Contingency; Chapter 2 More than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies From the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact; The Earliest Indigenous North American Subsistence Strategies; The Positive and Negative Consequences of Maize Intensification in Native America; Adapting to Agricultural Intensification through Continued Hunting and Gathering; Southeast North America; Southwest North America; The Northeast Atlantic, New England and Iroquois Country
From the Great Plains to the Great Basin; Ancient and Precontact California; The Pacific Northwest before Contact; Precontact Alaska and Arctic North America; Chapter 3 Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750; Beyond Virgin Soils: Nutrition as a Primary Contingent Factor in Demographic Loss; New Ways to Approach the Link between Nutrition and Immunity; Nutritional Degradation and Compromised Immunity in Postcontact Florida: Understanding ... ; Nutritional Degradation and Immunity in the Postcontact Southeast: Framing ..
Nutritional Degradation in the Postcontact Southwest, the Great Plains and the Great ... Nutritional Degradation in the Postcontact Northeast, New England and Iroquois ... ; After the Revolution; Chapter 4 Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950; The Insulin Hypothesis and Immunity in Native America after Contact; Shattered Subsistence in California and the Pacific Northwest in the Eighteenth and ... ; Shattered Subsistence in Alaska in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Seasonal ... ; Epilogue; From Compromised Immunity to Autoimmunity in the Modern Era
From Native America to North America: Compromised National Nutritional Guidelines; Modern Tribal Sovereignty as a Model for American Biodiversity and Public Health; End Matter; Notes; Introduction. Nutrition and Immunity in Native America: A Biological and Historical Controversy; 1 The Evolution of Nutrition and Immunity: From the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval European Black Death; 2 More than Maize: Native American Subsistence Strategies From the Bering Migration to the Eve of Contact; 3 Micronutrients and Immunity in Native America, 1492-1750
4 Metabolic Health and Immunity in Native America, 1750-1950
Summary Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering with native American subsistence strategies before and after 1492, this book offers a new way of understanding the link between biology, ecology and history. After examining the history and bio-archaeology of ancient Europe, the ancient Near East, ancient native America and Europe during the medieval Black Death, this study sets out to understand the subsequent collision between Indigenous peoples and Europeans in North America from 1492 to the present day. Synthesizing the latest work in the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with cutting edge scholarship on the history of Indigenous North America, this book highlights a fundamental model of human demographic destruction human populations have been able to recover from mass epidemics within a century, whatever their genetic heritage. They fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction. The history of native America before and after 1492 clearly shows that biological immunity is contingent on historical context, not least in relation to the protection or destruction of long-evolved nutritional building blocks that underlie human immunity. -- Provided by publisher
"Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity, and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of Indigenous North America, Decolonizing the Diet shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather, and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization, and cultural destruction"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2018)
Subject Nutrition -- History
Diet -- History
Immunology.
Indians of North America.
Nutritional Status -- history
Diet -- history
Allergy and Immunology
HISTORY -- Native American.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Diet
Immunology
Indians of North America
Nutrition
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hale, Nicola E., 1985- author.
ISBN 9781783087150
1783087153