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Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS Introduction Janet Chrzan Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett PART I: PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION Chapter 1. Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
Ellen Messer Chapter 2. Identifying and using indicators to assess program effectiveness: Food intake, biomarkers, and nutritional evaluation
Alyson Young and Meredith Marten Chapter 3. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation
Gretel Pelto Chapter 4. Methods for Community Health Involvement
David Himelgreen, Sara Arias Steele, and Nancy Romero-Daza Chapter 5. Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
Miriam Chaiken Chapter 6. Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
Joan Gross Chapter 7. Food Praxis as Method
Penny Van Esterik PART II: TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSIS Chapter 8. Using technology and measurement tools in nutritional anthropology of food studies
John Brett Chapter 9. Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology
Barry Brenton Chapter 10. Photo-Video Voice
Helen Vallianatos Chapter 11. Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy
Marty Otanez Chapter 12. Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet
James Wilson and Kristen Borre Chapter 13. Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
Kristen Borre and James Wilson Chapter 14. Designing food insecurity scales from the ground up: An introduction and working example of building and testing food insecurity scales in anthropological research
Craig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver
About the author
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.
John Brett is retired faculty in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver with a research focus on global and local food systems, food security and food justice.
Summary
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.
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Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
