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.

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