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Abstract
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.
Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
John Brett is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOOD RESEARCH | i | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Figures and Tables | vi | ||
| SECTION I. Introduction and Research Ethics | viii | ||
| Introduction to the Three-Volume Set | 2 | ||
| Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods | 8 | ||
| Research Ethics in Food Studies | 14 | ||
| x02\x02\x02SECTION II. Nutritional Anthropology | 28 | ||
| Chapter 1. Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology | 30 | ||
| CHAPTER 2. Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition | 44 | ||
| CHAPTER 3. Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living | 68 | ||
| CHAPTER 4. Dietary Analyses | 79 | ||
| CHAPTER 5. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation in Public Health Nutrition | 92 | ||
| CHAPTER 6. Primate Nutrition and Foodways | 108 | ||
| CHAPTER 7. Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality | 124 | ||
| x02\x02\x02SECTION III Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits | 142 | ||
| CHAPTER 8. Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research | 144 | ||
| CHAPTER 9. Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts | 152 | ||
| CHAPTER 10. Methods for Reconstructing Diet | 159 | ||
| CHAPTER 11. Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups | 182 | ||
| CHAPTER 12. Research on Direct Food Remains | 198 | ||
| CHAPTER 13. If There Is Food, We Will Eat | 212 | ||
| CHAPTER 14. Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition | 230 | ||
| Index | 246 |