Researching food habits : methods and problems /: methods and problems. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy.
• Editors: Macbeth, Helen M; MacClancy, Jeremy
• Contents: Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food Jeremy / MacClancy and Helen Macbeth -- Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity / Igor de Garine -- Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants / Attila T. Szabó -- Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach / 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 / F. Xavier Medina -- Food, Identity, Identification / Jeremy MacClancy -- Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research? / Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars -- Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates / Bruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel Hladik -- Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists / Helen Macbeth and Fiona Mowatt -- Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists / Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth -- The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure / Patrick Pasquet -- Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Isabel González Turmo and José Mataix Verdú -- Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands / Nancy J. Pollock -- Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based Identity / Ellen Messer -- Epilogue: Some Final Hints / Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 394.1/2; Food habits; Food preferences; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Nutrition; Food habits; Food preferences; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782386124; 1782386122
• Related ISBNs: 1571815449; 9781571815446; 1571815457; 9781571815453
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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