Overview

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.

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Author:   Janet Chrzan ,  John Brett
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9781789205268

ISBN 10:   1789205263
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   13 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carli All chapters are brief and very well focused, outlining the methods and current issues with each specific approach to data collection...This book set will be an excellent guide for all food scholars. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute By sharing best-practice like the material summarised in this volume, anthropologists can contribute to ensuring that the work carried out, and out- comes it achieves, is as high-quality as possible. For this reason, the volume reviewed here, which brings together the inputs of many senior practitioners into a succinct and easy-to-read manual, may do its best work when shared well beyond the academic sphere. * Anthropos

By sharing best-practice like the material summarised in this volume, anthropologists can contribute to ensuring that the work carried out, and out- comes it achieves, is as high-quality as possible. For this reason, the volume reviewed here, which brings together the inputs of many senior practitioners into a succinct and easy-to-read manual, may do its best work when shared well beyond the academic sphere. Anthropos

Author Information

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.

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