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.

Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carli“All chapters are brief and very well focused, outlining the methods and current issues with each specific approach to data collection…This book set will be an excellent guide for all food scholars.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“By sharing best-practice like the material summarised in this volume, anthropologists can contribute to ensuring that the work carried out, and out- comes it achieves, is as high-quality as possible. For this reason, the volume reviewed here, which brings together the inputs of many senior practitioners into a succinct and easy-to-read manual, may do its best work when shared well beyond the academic sphere.” • Anthropos

• INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICSIntroduction and Research DesignJanet ChrzanResearch Ethics in Food StudiesSharon Devine and John BrettPART I: NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGYChapter 1. Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional AnthropologyDarna Dufour and Barbara PiperataChapter 2. Nutritional Anthropometry and Body CompositionLeslie Sue LiebermanChapter 3. Measuring energy expenditure in daily living: Established methods and new directionsMark JenikeChapter 4. Dietary AnalysesAndrea WileyChapter 5. Ethnography as a tool for formative research and evaluation in public health nutrition: illustrations from the world of infant and young child feedingSera Young and Emily TuthillChapter 6. Primate Nutrition and FoodwaysJessica Rothman and Caley JohnsonChapter 7. Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of CommensalityJanet ChrzanPART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF FOOD AND FOOD HABITSChapter 8. Archeological Food and Nutrition ResearchPatti WrightChapter 9. Researching Plant Food Remains from Archeological Contexts: Macroscopic, Microscopic, Chemical and Molecular ApproachesPatti WrightChapter 10. Methods for Reconstructing DietBethany Turner and Sarah LivengoodChapter 11. Nutritional Stress in Past Human GroupsAlan GoodmanChapter 12. Research on Direct Food RemainsKatherine MooreChapter 13. If there is food, we will eat: an evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutritionJanet MongeChapter 14. Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to Contemporary Households and CommunitiesKaren Metheny