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Abstract
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.
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 Health | i | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Tables and Figures | vii | ||
| Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition | 1 | ||
| Introduction to Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health | 7 | ||
| Research Ethics in Food Studies | 13 | ||
| Section VII — Public Health and Nutrition | 27 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods | 29 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation | 42 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development | 54 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Methods for Community Health Involvement | 71 | ||
| Chapter 5 — Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies | 91 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research | 106 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Food Praxis as Method | 118 | ||
| Section VIII — Technology and Analysis | 125 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Using Technology and Measurement Tools in Nutritional Anthropology of Food Studies | 127 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology | 134 | ||
| Chapter 10 — Photo-Video Voice | 154 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy | 165 | ||
| Chapter 12 — Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet | 181 | ||
| Chapter 13 — Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research | 203 | ||
| Chapter 14 — Designing Food Insecurity Scales from the Ground Up: An Introduction and Working Example of Building and Testing Food Insecurity Scales in Anthropological Research | 217 | ||
| Index | 232 |