Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III
Herausgeber: Chrzan, Janet; Brett, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture.  These volumes offer 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 770
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1542g
• ISBN-13: 9781785332975
• ISBN-10: 178533297X
• Artikelnr.: 46603779

Autorenporträt

Janet Chrzan is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the connections between social activities, dietary intake and maternal and child health outcomes.

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME I: FOOD RESEARCH
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Introduction and Research Design
Janet Chrzan
Research Ethics in Food Studies
Sharon Devine and John Brett
PART I: NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 1. Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional
Anthropology
Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata
Chapter 2. Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition
Leslie Sue Lieberman
Chapter 3. Measuring energy expenditure in daily living: Established
methods and new directions
Mark Jenike
Chapter 4. Dietary Analyses
Andrea 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
PART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF FOOD AND FOOD HABITS
Chapter 8. Archeological Food and Nutrition Research
Patti Wright
Chapter 9. Researching Plant Food Remains from Archeological Contexts:
Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical and Molecular Approaches
Patti Wright
Chapter 10. Methods for Reconstructing Diet
Bethany Turner and Sarah Livengood
Chapter 11. Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups
Alan Goodman
Chapter 12. Research on Direct Food Remains
Katherine Moore
Chapter 13. If there is food, we will eat: an evolutionary and global
perspective on human diet and nutrition
Janet Monge
Chapter 14. Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application
of Archaeological Data to Contemporary Households and Communities
Karen Metheny
VOLUME II: FOOD CULTURE
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Introduction and Research Design
Janet Chrzan
Research Ethics in Food Studies
Sharon Devine and John Brett
PART I: SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACHES
Chapter 1. The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology: A Sociocultural
Perspective
Geraldine Moreno Black
Chapter 2. Interviewing Epistemologies: From Life History to Kitchen Table
Ethnography
Ramona Lee Perez
Chapter 3. Body Image
Mimi Nichter and Nichole Taylor
Chapter 4. Visual Anthropology Methods
Helen Vallianatos
Chapter 5. On the Lookout: The Use of Direct Observation in Nutritional
Anthropology
Barbara Piperata and Darna Dufour
Chapter 6. Participant-observation and Interviewing Techniques
Heather Paxson
Chapter 7. Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed Methods Research
Ramona L. Perez
Chapter 8. Studying Food and Culture: Ethnographic Methods in the Classroom
Carole Counihan
PART II: LINGUISTICS AND FOOD TALK
Chapter 9. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Food Research Methods
Jillian Cavanaugh and Kate Riley
Chapter 10. Food Talk: Studying Food and Language in Use Together
Jillian Cavanaugh and Kate Riley
Chapter 11. An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research:
Free Lists and Pile Sorts
Ariela Zycherman
Chapter 12. Food and Text(ual) Analysis
Kate Riley
Chapter 13. Analysis of Primary Historic Sources
Ken Albala
PART III: FOOD STUDIES
Chapter 14. Introduction to Food Studies Methods
Amy Trubek
Chapter 15. Meaning Centered Food Research
Lucy Long
Chapter 16. Food and Place
William Woys Weaver
Chapter 17. Sensory Ethnography: methods and research design for Food
Studies research
Rachel Black
Chapter 18. Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and
Alternative Trade
Catherine Tucker
Chapter 19. The Single Food Approach: A Research Strategy in Nutritional
Anthropology
Andrea Wiley and Janet Chrzan
VOLUME III: FOOD HEALTH
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Introduction
Janet Chrzan
Research Ethics in Food Studies
Sharon Devine and John Brett
PART I: PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Chapter 1. Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
Ellen Messer
Chapter 2. Identifying and using indicators to assess program
effectiveness: Food intake, biomarkers, and nutritional evaluation
Alyson Young and Meredith Marten
Chapter 3. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation
Gretel Pelto
Chapter 4. Methods for Community Health Involvement
David Himelgreen, Sara Arias Steele, and Nancy Romero-Daza
Chapter 5. Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
Miriam Chaiken
Chapter 6. Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
Joan Gross
Chapter 7. Food Praxis as Method
Penny Van Esterik
PART II: TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSIS
Chapter 8. Using technology and measurement tools in nutritional
anthropology of food studies
John Brett
Chapter 9. Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for
Nutritional Anthropology
Barry Brenton
Chapter 10. Photo-Video Voice
Helen Vallianatos
Chapter 11. Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in
Research and Advocacy
Marty Otanez
Chapter 12. Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the
Internet
James Wilson and Kristen Borre
Chapter 13. Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: 
Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
Kristen Borre and James Wilson
Chapter 14. Designing food insecurity scales from the ground up: An
introduction and working example of building and testing food insecurity
scales in anthropological research
Craig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver