Researching Food Habits

Helen Macbeth is Chair of ICAF (Europe) and Honorary Research Fellow of the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University.

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Preface

List of Contributors



Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food

Jeremy MacClancy and Helen Macbeth



Chapter 1. Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity

Igor de Garine



Chapter 2. Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants

Attila T. Szabó



Chapter 3. Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach

Annie Hubert



Chapter 4. ‘Tell me what you eat and you will tell me who you are’: Methodological Notes on the Interaction between Researcher and Informants in the Anthropology of Food

F. Xavier Medina



Chapter 5. Food, Identity, Identification

Jeremy MacClancy



Chapter 6. Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research?

Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars



Chapter 7. Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates

Bruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel Hladik



Chapter 8. Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists

Helen Macbeth and Fiona Mowatt



Chapter 9. Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition

Stanley J. Ulijaszek



Chapter 10. Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists

Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth



Chapter 11. The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure

Patrick Pasquet



Chapter 12. Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Isabel González Turmo and José Mataix Verdú



Chapter 13. Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands

Nancy J. Pollock



Chapter 14. Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based Identity

Ellen Messer



Epilogue: Some Final Hints

Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy



Glossary

Index