Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice (Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Band 5)

Buch 5 von 11: Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
 
9781845453534: Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice (Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Band 5)
ISBN 10: 1845453530 ISBN 13: 9781845453534
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845453530
ISBN 13 
9781845453534
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
258
Herausgeber
Macclancy Jeremy M., Henry Jeya, Macbeth Helen
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