Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Editor: Chrzan, Janet and Brett, John
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Berghahn Books

Single-User Purchase Price: $130.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $195.00
ISBN: 978-1-78533-287-6
Category: Food, Drink, Nutrition
Image Count: 10
Book Status: Available
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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.

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Table of Contents

    • List of Figures
    • 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 I. Introduction and Research Ethics
    • Introduction To The Three-Volume Set Research Methods Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Janet Chrzan
    • Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods Janet Chrzan
    • Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett
    • Section II. Nutritional Anthropology
    • Chapter 1. Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology: Section Introduction - Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata
    • Chapter 2. Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition Leslie Sue Lieberman
    • Appendix of Tables
    • Chapter 3. Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living: Established Methods and New Directions - Mark Jenike
    • Chapter 4. Dietary Analyses - Andrea S. Wiley
    • 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
    • Chapter 6. Primate Nutrition and Foodways - Jessica Rothman and Caley Johnson
    • Chapter 7. Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality - Janet Chrzan
    • Appendix of Tables
    • Section III. Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits
    • Chapter 8. Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research: Section Introduction - Patti J. Wright
    • Chapter 9. Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts: Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical, and Molecular Approaches - Patti J. Wright
    • Chapter 10. Methods for Reconstructing Diet - Bethany L. Turner and Sarah V. Livengood
    • Chapter 11. Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups - Alan H. Goodman
    • Chapter 12. Research on Direct Food Remains - Katherine M. Moore
    • Chapter 13. If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An Evolutionary and Global Perspective on Human Diet and Nutrition - Janet M. Monge
    • Chapter 14. Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition - Karen Bescherer Metheny