Food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods /

Food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods / edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett. - 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. - Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition ; volume I .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the three-volume set research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition / Janet Chrzan -- Introduction to food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods / Janet Chrzan -- Research ethics in food studies / Sharon Devine and John Brett -- Design in biocultural studies of food and nutritional anthropology : section introduction / Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata -- Nutritional anthropometry and body composition / Leslie Sue Lieberman -- Measuring energy expenditure in daily living : established methods and new directions / Mark Jenike -- Dietary analyses / Andrea Wiley -- 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 -- Primate nutrition and foodways / Jessica Rothman and Caley Johnson -- Food episodes/social events : measuring the nutritional and social value of commensality / Janet Chrzan -- Archaeological food and nutrition research : section introduction / Patti Wright -- Researching plant food remains from archaeological contexts : macroscopic, microscopic, chemical, and molecular approaches / Patti Wright -- Methods for reconstructing diet / Bethany Turner and Sarah Livengood -- Nutritional stress in past human groups / Alan Goodman -- Research on direct food remains / Katherine Moore -- If there is food, we will eat : an evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition / Janet Monge -- Experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and the application of archaeological data to the study of subsistence, diet, and nutrition / Karen Bescherer Metheny.

9781785332883 (e-book)


Nutritional anthropology--Research--Methodology.
Food habits--Research--Methodology.
Public health--Research--Methodology.
Archaeology--Methodology.


Electronic books.

GN407 / .F684 2017

394.1/20721