Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review 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
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
