Researching Food Habits

by Macbeth, Helen M.; MacClancy, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781571815446
• ISBN10: 1571815449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The term 'Anthropology of Food'has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
List of Contributors	xii
Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food	1	(14)
Jeremy MacClancy
Helen Macbeth
Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity	15	(14)
Igor de Garine
Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants	29	(12)
Attila T. Szabo
Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach	41	(14)
Annie Hubert
`Tell me what you eat and you will tell me who you are': Methodological Notes on the Interaction between Researcher and Informants in the Anthropology of Food	55	(8)
F. Xavier Medina
Food, Identity, Identification	63	(12)
Jeremy MacClancy
Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research?	75	(12)
Gerald Mars
Valerie Mars
Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates	87	(14)
Bruno Simmen
Patrick Pasquet
Claude Marcel Hladik
Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists	101	(18)
Helen Macbeth
Fiona Mowatt
Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition	119	(16)
Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists	135	(14)
Jeya Henry
Helen Macbeth
The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure	149	(12)
Patrick Pasquet
Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	161	(8)
Isabel Gonzalez Turmo
Jose Mataix Verdu
Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands	169	(12)
Nancy J. Pollock
Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based Identity	181	(12)
Ellen Messer
Epilogue: Some Final Hints	193	(4)
Helen Macbeth
Jeremy MacClancy
Glossary	197	(8)
Index	205