Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition: Volumes I-III

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III

Edited by: Janet Chrzan and John Brett

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333644

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Janet Chrzan is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the connections between social activities, dietary intake and maternal and child health outcomes.

John Brett is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.

Reviews

Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin

“All chapters are brief and very well focused, outlining the methods and current issues with each specific approach to data collection… the presentation is clear and easy to follow, providing an excellent, if brief, professional overview of each topic with most key references at the end of each chapter… This book set will be an excellent guide for all food scholars.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

“I feel that this set will be exceptionally useful not only for anthropologists, but also for ethnographers, demographers, and others conducting research within food systems and food studies. With the burgeoning interest in food research at all levels, and with new graduate programs in the field, this book has the potential to be a crucial resource for scholars in the field… I look forward to requiring this as reading for my graduate students and advanced undergraduates.” • Teresa Mares, University of Vermont

“Unlike other resources I’ve come across, this set covers methods used in the traditional four fields of anthropology, ranging from highly quantitative and scientific oriented research to qualitative, culture oriented work… These volumes function as inclusive how-to manuals, providing examples of different questions each type of research might address as well as their limitations. Each chapter includes a helpful, extensive bibliography.” • Amy Bentley, New York University

“This set offers a comprehensive overview of methods across the discipline and beyond, providing readers with basic (and in some cases advanced) insights into why particular methods are useful and how those methods can be implemented… This is an unparalleled and comprehensive collection.” • David Beriss, University of New Orleans

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents 2 Publicly Available Download PDF	X
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XII
SECTION I Introduction and Research Ethics
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
SECTION II Nutritional Anthropology
CHAPTER 1 Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology: Section Introduction Darna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER 2 Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition Leslie Sue Lieberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
CHAPTER 3 Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living: Established Methods and New Directions Mark Jenike Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 4 Dietary Analyses Andrea S. Wiley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
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 Sera Young and Emily Tuthill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
CHAPTER 6 Primate Nutrition and Foodways Jessica M. Rothman and Caley A. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
CHAPTER 7 Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
SECTION III Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits
CHAPTER 8 Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research: Section Introduction Patti J. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
CHAPTER 9 Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts: Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical, and Molecular Approaches Patti J. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
CHAPTER 10 Methods for Reconstructing Diet Bethany L. Turner and Sarah V. Livengood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
CHAPTER 11 Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups Alan H. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
CHAPTER 12 Research on Direct Food Remains Katherine M. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
CHAPTER 13 If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An Evolutionary and Global Perspective on Human Diet and Nutrition Janet M. Monge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
CHAPTER 14 Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition Karen Bescherer Metheny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Contents 3 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Introduction to Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
SECTION IV Socio-Cultural Approaches
CHAPTER 1 The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology: A Sociocultural Perspective Geraldine Moreno-Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
CHAPTER 2 Interviewing Epistemologies: From Life History to Kitchen Table Ethnography Ramona Lee Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
CHAPTER 3 Studying Body Image and Food Consumption Practices Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
CHAPTER 4 Visual Anthropology Methods Helen Vallianatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
CHAPTER 5 On the Lookout: The Use of Direct Observation in Nutritional Anthropology Barbara A. Piperata and Darna L. Dufour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
CHAPTER 6 Participant-Observation and Interviewing Techniques Heather Paxson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Chapter 7 Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research Ramona L. Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
CHAPTER 8 Studying Food and Culture: Ethnographic Methods in the Classroom Carole Counihan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
SECTION V Linguistics and Food Talk
SECTION V Linguistics and Food Talk Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Kathleen C. Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
CHAPTER 10 Food Talk: Studying Foodways and Language in Use Together Kathleen C. Riley and Jillian R. Cavanaugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
CHAPTER 11 An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research: Free Lists and Pile Sorts Ariela Zycherman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
CHAPTER 12 Food and Text(ual) Analysis Kathleen C. Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428
CHAPTER 13 Analysis of Historic Primary Sources Ken Albala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
SECTION VI Food Studies
CHAPTER 14 Introduction to Food Studies Methods Amy B. Trubek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
CHAPTER 15 Meaning-Centered Research in Food Studies Lucy M. Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	462
CHAPTER 16 Food and Place William Woys Weaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
CHAPTER 17 Sensory Ethnography: Methods and Research Design for Food Studies Research Rachel E. Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	486
CHAPTER 18 Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and Alternative Trade Catherine M. Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
CHAPTER 19 The Single Food Approach: A Research Strategy in Nutritional Anthropology Andrea S. Wiley and Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	528
FOOD HEALTH
Contents 4 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	540
Tables and Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	542
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set: Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	544
Introduction to Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health Janet Chrzan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	550
Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	556
Section VII Public Health and Nutrition
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods Ellen Messer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	572
CHAPTER 2 Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation Alyson Young and Meredith Marten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
CHAPTER 3 Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development Gretel H. Pelto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
CHAPTER 4 Methods for Community Health Involvement David A. Himmelgreen, Sara Arias-Steele and Nancy Romero-Daza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	614
CHAPTER 5 Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies Miriam S. Chaiken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	634
CHAPTER 6 Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research Joan Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
CHAPTER 7 Food Praxis as Method Penny Van Esterik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	661
SECTION VIII Technology and Analysis
CHAPTER 8 Using Technology and Measurement Tools in Nutritional Anthropology of Food Studies John Brett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	670
CHAPTER 9 Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology Barrett P. Brenton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	677
CHAPTER 10 Photo-Video Voice Helen Vallianatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	697
CHAPTER 11 Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy Marty Otañez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	708
CHAPTER 12 Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet James Wilson and Kristen Borre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	724
CHAPTER 13 Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research Kristen Borre and James Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	746
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 Craig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	760
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	775

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 770
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Food & Nutrition; Archaeology

eBook

Published: February 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785333644