Researching Food Habits

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

“This is a useful and challenging collection. In many places, it has relevance beyond research into food habits and even beyond applied research into food habits and even beyond applied research, and parts could be usefully employed in general research methods training.”  · Anthropological Notebooks“... represents a chest of intellectual tools for would-be researchers to pick up and use and develop as interest in the topic continues to rise.”   · Sirreadalot.org“This book makes an interesting and useful contribution to the somewhat sparse list of texts on the methods of nutritional anthropology.”   ·  Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: How to do Anthropologies of FoodJeremy MacClancy and Helen MacbethChapter 1. Anthropology of Food and PluridisciplinarityIgor de GarineChapter 2. Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food PlantsAttila T. SzabóChapter 3. Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative ApproachAnnie HubertChapter 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 FoodF. Xavier MedinaChapter 5. Food, Identity, IdentificationJeremy MacClancyChapter 6. Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research?Gerald Mars and Valerie MarsChapter 7. Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman PrimatesBruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel HladikChapter 8. Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for AnthropologistsHelen Macbeth and Fiona MowattChapter 9. Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and NutritionStanley J. UlijaszekChapter 10. Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for AnthropologistsJeya Henry and Helen MacbethChapter 11. The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy ExpenditurePatrick PasquetChapter 12. Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyIsabel González Turmo and José Mataix VerdúChapter 13. Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall IslandsNancy J. PollockChapter 14. Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based IdentityEllen MesserEpilogue: Some Final HintsHelen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancyGlossaryIndex