Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Food Research

Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Edited by: Janet Chrzan and John Brett

Volume 1 in the series Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332883

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About this book

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.

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 retired faculty in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.

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.

Reviews

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

“All chapters are brief and very well focused, outlining the methods and current issues with each specific approach to data collection…This book set will be an excellent guide for all food scholars.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“By sharing best-practice like the material summarised in this volume, anthropologists can contribute to ensuring that the work carried out, and out- comes it achieves, is as high-quality as possible. For this reason, the volume reviewed here, which brings together the inputs of many senior practitioners into a succinct and easy-to-read manual, may do its best work when shared well beyond the academic sphere.” • Anthropos

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 254
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Food & Nutrition; Archaeology

eBook

Published: January 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785332883