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Food in zones of conflict : cross-disciplinary perspectives
The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel operating in conflict zones is another important issue. These themes unite this collection, the chapters of which span different geographic areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number of different disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition, political science, development studies and international relations, as well as practitioners working in the private and public sectors, who are currently concerned with food-related issues in the field.
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Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice
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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Liquid bread
Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used in antiquity and in traditional societies; the social and symbolic roles of beer-drinking; the beliefs and activities associated with it; the health-promoting effects as well as the health-damaging risks; and analyses the modern role of large multinational companies, which own many of the breweries, and the marketing techniques that they employ.
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Food in Zones of Conflict
The availability of food is an especially significant issue in
zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the
production and the distribution of food, and causes increased
competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production
of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists
in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel
operating in conflict zones is another important issue. These
themes unite this collection, the chapters of which span different
geographic areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number
of different disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition,
political science, development studies and international relations,
as well as practitioners working in the private and public sectors,
who are currently concerned with food-related issues in the
field.
eBook
La antropología de la alimentación en España : perspectivas actuales
La alimentación es un universo de conocimientos, de leyes y de reglas, al mismo tiempo natural y sociocultural, un lugar de encuentro y de síntesis de lo biológico, lo económico, lo social y lo cultural. A pesar de que la alimentación es una necesidad primaria de la especie humana, la inclusión de este tema en la investigación sistemática en el campo de la antropología ha sido, sin embargo, relativamente tardía. Las precursoras fueron en su día Margaret Mead y Audrey Richards. Esta última fue la primera en considerar una posible colaboración entre las ciencias humanas y biológicas. Este libro conmemora los 25 años de la sección española de la International Commission on the Antropolgy of Food and Nutrition (ICAF), una institución que lleva todo este tiempo produciendo conocimiento en materia de alimentación desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar: antropología sociocultural, biología, medicina y nutrición, psicología social, historia... Los diferentes artículos que componen este libro cumplen con estas premisas: rigor, interdisciplinariedad y visión transversal de la temática alimentaria. Mucho más allá de los tópicos, la alimentación queda situada, sin duda, dentro del marco de las relaciones sociales de los individuos y los grupos.
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Researching food habits : methods and problems
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.
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Food preferences and taste : continuity and change
Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes social and biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.
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