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Uniform Title Food research (Berghahn Books : 2017)
Title Food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods / edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Series Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition ; volume I
Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition ; v. 1.
Contents Design in biocultural studies of food and nutritional anthropology : section introduction / Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata -- Nutritional anthropometry and body composition / Leslie Sue Lieberman -- Measuring energy expenditure in daily living : established methods and new directions / Mark Jenike -- Dietary analyses / Andrea Wiley -- Ethnography as a tool for formative research and evaluation in public health nutrition : illustrations from the world of infant and young child feeding / Sera Young and Emily Tuthill -- Primate nutrition and foodways / Jessica Rothman and Caley Johnson -- Food episodes/social events : measuring the nutritional and social value of commensality / Janet Chrzan -- Archaeological food and nutrition research : section introduction / Patti Wright -- Researching plant food remains from archaeological contexts : macroscopic, microscopic, chemical, and molecular approaches / Patti Wright -- Methods for reconstructing diet / Bethany Turner and Sarah Livengood -- Nutritional stress in past human groups / Alan Goodman -- Research on direct food remains / Katherine Moore -- If there is food, we will eat : an evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition / Janet Monge -- Experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and the application of archaeological data to the study of subsistence, diet, and nutrition / Karen Bescherer Metheny
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2022)
Subject Nutritional anthropology -- Research -- Methodology
Food habits -- Research -- Methodology
Public health -- Research -- Methodology
Archaeology -- Methodology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diet & Nutrition -- Nutrition.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Archaeology -- Methodology
Public health -- Research -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Chrzan, Janet, editor
Brett, John A., editor
LC no. 2016048886
ISBN 9781785332883
1785332880