This book offers 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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
• Research Ethics in Food Studies
• Part I. Food research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
• Figures and Tables
• Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
• Section II. Nutritional Anthropology
• – Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology: Section Introduction
• – Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition
• – Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living: Established Methods and New Directions
• – Dietary Analyses
• – Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation in Public Health Nutrition: Illustrations from the World of Infant and Young Child Feeding
• – Primate Nutrition and Foodways
• – Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality
• Section III. Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits
• – Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research: Section Introduction
• – Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts: Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical, and Molecular Approaches
• – Methods for Reconstructing Diet
• – Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups
• – Research on Direct Food Remains
• – If There Is Food, We Will Eat: An Evolutionary and Global Perspective on Human Diet and Nutrition
• – Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition
• Part II. Food culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies
• Introduction to Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies
• Section IV. Socio-Cultural Approaches
• – The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology: A Sociocultural Perspective
• – Interviewing Epistemologies: From Life History to Kitchen Table Ethnography
• – Studying Body Image and Food Consumption Practices
• – Visual Anthropology Methods
• – On the Lookout: The Use of Direct Observation in Nutritional Anthropology
• – Participant-Observation and Interviewing Techniques
• – Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research
• – Studying Food and Culture: Ethnographic Methods in the Classroom
• Section V. Linguistics and Food Talk
• – Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Food Research Methods
• – Food Talk: Studying Foodways and Language in Use Together
• – An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research: Free Lists and Pile Sorts
• – Food and Text(ual) Analysis
• – Analysis of Historic Primary Sources
• Section VI. Food Studies
• – Introduction to Food Studies Methods
• – Meaning-Centered Research in Food Studies
• – Food and Place
• – Sensory Ethnography: Methods and Research Design for Food Studies Research
• – Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and Alternative Trade
• – The Single Food Approach: A Research Strategy in Nutritional Anthropology
• Part III. Food health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
• Tables and Figures
• Introduction to Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
• Section VII. Public Health and Nutrition
• – Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
• – Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation
• – Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development
• – Methods for Community Health Involvement
• – Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
• – Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
• – Food Praxis as Method
• Section VIII. Technology and Analysis
• – Using Technology and Measurement Tools in Nutritional Anthropology of Food Studies
• – Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology
• – Photo-Video Voice
• – Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy
• – Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet
• – Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
• – Designing Food Insecurity Scales from the Ground Up: An Introduction and Working Example of Building and Testing Food Insecurity Scales in Anthropological Research