Food Research

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.

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