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Nutritional Anthropology : Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition

ISBN: 9780199738144 | 0199738149
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/13/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Revised for the first time in ten years, the second edition ofNutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutritioncontinues to blend biological and cultural approaches to this dynamic discipline. While this revision maintains the format and philosophy that grounded the first edition, the text has been revamped and revitalized with new and updated readings, sections, introductions, and pedagogical materials that cover current global food trade and persistent problems of hunger in equal measure. Unlike any other book on the ma... MORE

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Preface
Contributors
1. The Biocultural Perspective in Nutritional Anthropology, Gretel H. Pelto, Darna L. Dufour, and Alan H. Goodman
PART I . A TASTE OF NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari, Richard B. Lee
3. No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs: The Evolution of Personal Food Taboos, Miriam S. Chaiken
4. From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao ... MORE

Darna L. Dufour is Associate Dean for Faculty and Administrative Affairs and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Alan H. Goodman is Vice President of Academic Affairs/Dean of Faculty and Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College.

Gretel H. Pelto is Graduate Professor of Nutritional Anthropology at Cornell University.


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