| Description |
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 6
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Evidence for the consumption of the inedible : who, what, when, where and why? / Sera L.Young -- Consuming the inedible : pica behaviour / Carmen Strungaru -- The concepts of food and non-food : perspectives from Spain / Isabel Gonzalez Turmo -- Food definitions and boundaries : eating constraints and human identities / Ellen Messer -- A vile habit? the potential biological consequences of geophagia, with special attention to iron / Sera L. Young. |
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The discovery of human zinc deficiency : a reflective journey back in time / Ananda S. Prasad -- Geophagia and human nutrition / Peter Hooda and Jeya Henry -- Consumption of materials with low nutritional value and bioactive properties : non-human primates vs. humans / Sabrina Krief -- Lime as the key element : a 'non-food' in food for subsistence / Ricardo Avila, Martin Tena and Peter Hubbard -- Salt as a 'non-food': to what extent do gustatory perceptions determine non-food vs. food choices? / Claude Marcel Hladik. |
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Non-food food during famine : the Athens famine survivor project / Antonia-Leda Matalas and Louis E. Grivetti -- Eating garbage : socially marginal food provisioning practices / Rachel Black -- Eating cat in the north of Spain in the early twentieth century / F. Xavier Medina -- Insects : forgotten and rediscovered as food. entomophagy among the Eipo, highlands of West New Guinea, and in other traditional societies / Wulf Schiefenhovel and Paul Blum. |
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Eating snot : socially unacceptable but common. why? / Maria Jesus Portalatin -- Cannibalism : no myth, but why so rare? / Helen Macbeth, Schiefenhovel, and Paul Collinson -- From edible to inedible : social construction, family socialisation, and upbringing / Luis Cantarero -- The use of waste products in the fermentation of alcoholic beverages / Rodolfo Fernandez and Daria Deraga. |
| Subject |
Food habits.
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Food preferences.
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Diet.
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Nutrition.
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Food Habits -- ethnology. |
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Anthropology -- methods. |
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Cultural Characteristics. |
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Food Preferences -- ethnology. |
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Pica -- ethnology. |
| Added Author |
MacClancy, Jeremy.
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Henry, C. J. K.
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Macbeth, Helen M.
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| ISBN |
1845453530 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781845453534 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101319171 |
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NZ1 11612781 |
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