Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Past Meets Present

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2010
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-765-5 (ISBN)

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Integration of studies on human diet and nutrition from both the past and present

Use of the biocultural perspective by the authors to explore questions relating to human nutrition, past and present food and nutrition

Organised around central themes in anthropology in a wide variety of geographical regions

There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and direction of human societies. Using a biocultural approach, the contributors to this volume investigate the ways in which food is both an essential resource fundamental to human health and an expression of human culture and society. The chapters deal with aspects of diet and human nutrition through space and time and span prehistoric, historic, and contemporary societies spread over various geographical regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia to highlight how biology and culture are inextricably linked.

Tina Moffat is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her research focuses on child health and nutrition in relation to environmental health and urban ecosystems. She has authored and co-authored numerous scholarly journal publications on child growth and infant feeding in Nepal and nutritional well-being and obesity among North American school-children.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and Nutrition

T. Moffat and T. Prowse

PART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITION

Chapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain Evolution

W. R. Leonard, M. L. Robertson and J. J. Snodgrass

Chapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past

S. Pfeiffer and L. Harrington

Chapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution

D. W. Sellen

PART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE

Chapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns

T. L. Dupras

Chapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96

L. A. Sawchuk, E. K. Bryce and S. D. A. Burke

PART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION

Chapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice

T. Moffat and E. Finnis

Chapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel

R. E. Casiday, K. R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick and K. Kilpatrick

PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASE

Chapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome

T. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli and R. Macchiarelli

Chapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in Bioarchaeology

S. C. Agarwal and B. Glencross

Chapter 11. Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North America

P. T. Katzmarzyk

PART V: CONCLUSION

Chapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the Future

T. Prowse and T. Moffat

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	25 Maps; 25 Illustrations; 25 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84545-765-X / 184545765X
ISBN-13	978-1-84545-765-5 / 9781845457655
Zustand	Neuware