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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University. He is also Chair of ICAF (UK), author of Consuming Culture, and prize-winning investigator of Basque cuisine. Klappentext The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology. 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.A" * 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.A" * Sirreadalot.org This book makes an interesting and useful contribution to the somewhat sparse list of texts on the methods of nutritional anthropology.A" * Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics Zusammenfassung The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables 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 Pri...
