Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming m…
Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming m…
Habitat management efforts for the New England cottontail, a species of conservation concern, are primarily focused on creating and maintaining dense understory vegetation. Native shrublands and forest types on Cape Cod provide large expanses of potential habitat for New England…
Nutrition can be complicated. How do you know what foods are healthy and what aren't? How much should you eat? What exactly should you eat? During your lifetime, starting right now, you'll have to make a lot of decisions about food. You'll need to choose whether or not to eat br…
Nutrition can be complicated. How do you know what foods are healthy and what aren't? How much should you eat? What exactly should you eat? During your lifetime, starting right now, you'll have to make a lot of decisions about food. You'll need to choose whether or not to eat br…
People were once restricted to food native to their region and produced locally. Today, however, food from any place in the world is available, or can be made available, anywhere else. Often there is no or very little information about the nutritional and health aspects of these…
"Drawing on the extensive writings that have grown up around, food, body image, nutrition theory and gender, she draws an altogether more voluptuous picture of the state of our relationship to our bodies"--Susie Orbach, Times Literary Supplement.
"Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. …
Insects provide food at low environmental cost, contribute positively to livelihoods, and play a fundamental role in nature. This publication marks the first attempt by FAO to document all aspects of the insect food and feed value chain, with the aim of enabling a comprehensive …
Introduction: setting the anthropological table -- Part 1. Edibility -- Omnivorousness: defining food -- Part 2. Ingredients -- Settled ingredients: domestic food production -- Mobile ingredients: global food production -- Part 3. Cooking -- Cooks and kitchens -- Recipes and dis…
"Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology - as the study of human beings, their culture, and society - has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustra…
"Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology--as the study of human beings, their culture, and society--has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrate…
