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This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work is to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore the methods.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS Introduction and Research Design Janet Chrzan Research Ethics in Food Studies Sharon Devine and John Brett PART I: SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACHES Chapter 1. The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology: A Sociocultural Perspective
Geraldine Moreno Black Chapter 2. Interviewing Epistemologies: From Life History to Kitchen Table Ethnography
Ramona Lee Perez Chapter 3. Body Image
Mimi Nichter and Nichole Taylor Chapter 4. Visual Anthropology Methods
Helen Vallianatos Chapter 5. On the Lookout: The Use of Direct Observation in Nutritional Anthropology
Barbara Piperata and Darna Dufour Chapter 6. Participant-observation and Interviewing Techniques
Heather Paxson Chapter 7. Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed Methods Research
Ramona L. Perez Chapter 8. Studying Food and Culture: Ethnographic Methods in the Classroom
Carole Counihan PART II: LINGUISTICS AND FOOD TALK Chapter 9. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Food Research Methods
Jillian Cavanaugh and Kate Riley Chapter 10. Food Talk: Studying Food and Language in Use Together
Jillian Cavanaugh and Kate Riley Chapter 11. An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research: Free Lists and Pile Sorts
Ariela Zycherman Chapter 12. Food and Text(ual) Analysis
Kate Riley Chapter 13. Analysis of Primary Historic Sources
Ken Albala PART III: FOOD STUDIES Chapter 14. Introduction to Food Studies Methods
Amy Trubek Chapter 15. Meaning Centered Food Research
Lucy Long Chapter 16. Food and Place
William Woys Weaver Chapter 17. Sensory Ethnography: methods and research design for Food Studies research
Rachel Black Chapter 18. Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and Alternative Trade
Catherine Tucker Chapter 19. The Single Food Approach: A Research Strategy in Nutritional Anthropology
Andrea Wiley and Janet Chrzan
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.
