Nutritional Anthropology

Preface to 2nd edition
Contributors of Original Essays
1. Gretel H. Pelto, Darna L. Dufour, Alan H. Goodman: The Biocultural Perspective in Nutritional Anthropology
Part I A Taste of Nutritional Anthropology
2. Richard B. Lee: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
3. Miriam Chaiken: No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs: The Evolution of Personal Food Taboos
4. Penny Van Esterik: From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR
5. John T. Omohundro: Rough Food
Part II The Quest for Food: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives
The Biological Baseline
6. Peter S. Ungar and Matt Sponheimer: The Diets of Early Hominins
7. Richard B. Lee: What Hunters do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce resources
8. Ann Gibbons: Food for Thought: Did The First Cooked Meals Help Fuel The Dramatic Evolutionary Expansion of The Human Brain?
9. S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner: Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications
Agriculture: The Great Revolution
10. Mark Nathan Cohen: Agriculture, Origins of
11. Solomon H. Katz and Mary M. Voigt: Bread and Beer: The Early Use of Cereals in The Human Die
12. Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos: Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds
Variation in Contemporary Food Systems: Pluses and Minuses
13. Darna L. Dufour: Use of Tropical Rainforests by Native Amazonians
14. J. Terrence McCabe, Paul W. Leslie and Laura DeLuca: Adopting Cultivation to Remain Pastoralists: The Diversification of Maasai Livelihoods in Northern Tanzania
15. Elizabeth Finnis: "Now It Is an Easy Life": Women's Accounts of Cassava, Millets, and Labor in South India
16. Michael Pollan: Power Steer
17. David A. Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza and Charlotte A. Noble: Anthropological Perspectives on the Global Food Crisis
Part III Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
Explaining Foodways #1: Materialist Approaches
18. Marvin Harris: India's Sacred Cow
19. Darna L. Dufour: Insects as Food: A Case Study from the Northwest Amazon
20. Sera L.Young. Paul W. Sherman, Julius B. Lucks, and Gretel H. Pelto: 2011 Why on Earth?: Evaluation Hypotheses about the Physiological Functions of Human Geophagy
Explaining Foodways #2: Ideology, Symbolism, and Social Power
21. Mary J. Weismantel: The Children Cry for Bread: Hegemony and the Transformation of Consumption
22. Anne Alison: Japanese Mothers and Obents: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus
23. Chaia Heller: Techne Versus Technoscience: Divergent (and Ambiguous) Notions of Food "Quality" in The French Debate over GM Crops
Adapting Foods to People and People to Foods
24. Darna L. Dufour: A Closer Look at the Nutritional Implications of Bitter Cassava Use
25. Barrett P. Brenton: Pellagra, Sex and Gender: Biocultural Perspectives on Differential Diets and Health
26. Andrea S. Wiley: "Drink Milk for Fitness": The Cultural Politics of Human Biological Variation and Milk Consumption in the United States
27. Barry Bogin: The Maya in Disneyland.
28. Barry Bogin: !Kung nutritional status and the original "affluent society" - a new analysis
Foods as Medicine
29. Nina Etkin: Spices: The Pharmacology of the Exotic
30. Lauren S. Blum, Gretel H. Pelto and Pertti J. Pelto: Coping with a Nutrient Deficiency: Cultural Models of Vitamin A Deficiency in Northern Niger
31. Louis E. Grivetti: From Aphrodisiac to Health Food: A Cultural History of Chocolate
32. Jill Dubisch: You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of The Health Food Movement
Part IV Too Little and Too Much: Nutrition in the Contemporary World
Undernutrition and Its Discontents
33. Adolfo Ch vez, Celia Mart¡nez and Beatriz Soberanes: The Effect of Malnutrition on Human Development: A 24-Year Study of Well-Nourished and Malnourished Children Living in a Poor Mexican Village
34. Reynaldo Martorell: Body Size, Adaptation and Function
35. Richard Bender and Darna Dufour: Hungry But Not Starving: Functional Consequences of Undernutrition in Adults
36. Alex de Waal and Alan Whiteside: New Variant Famine: AIDS and Food Crisis in Southern Africa
37. Catherine Panter-Brick, Rachel Casiday, Katherine Hampshire and Kate Kilpatrick: Child Malnutrition and Famine in the Nigerien Sahel
Dietary Transitions and Globalization
38. Gretel H. Pelto and Pertti J. Pelto: Diet and Delocalization: Dietary Changes Since 1750
39. Bernard Nietschmann: When the Turtle Collapses, the World Ends
40. Theodore C. Bestor: How Sushi Went Global
41. Darna L. Dufour and Richard Bender: Nutrition transitions: A View from Anthropology
42. Thomas L. Leatherman and Alan Goodman: Coca-colonization of Diets in The Yucatan
Cultural Ecology of Infant and Young Child Feedin
43. Daniel W. Sellen: Evolution of Infant and Young Child Feeding: Implications for Contemporary Public Health
44. Gretel H. Pelto, Yuanyuan Zhang and Jean-Pierre Habicht: Premastication: The Second Arm of Infant and Young Child Feeding for Health and Survival?
45. Gretel H. Pelto, Emily Levitt and Lucy Thairu: Feeding Babies: Practices, Constraints and Interventi
Overnutrition and Hunger in Lands of Plenty
46. Carol L. Connell, Kristi L. Lofton, Kathy Yadrick and Timothy A. Rehner: Children's Experiences of Food Insecurity Can Assist in Understanding Its Effect on Their Well-Being
47. Deborah L. Crooks: Trading Nutrition for Education: Nutritional Status and the Sale of Snack Foods in an Eastern Kentucky School
48. Alexandra A. Brewis: Big Fat Myths
49. Malcolm Gladwell: The Pima Paradox
50. Robert M. Sapolsky: Junk Food Monkeys
51. Leslie Sue Lieberman: Evolutionary and Anthropological Perspectives on Optimal Foraging in Obesogenic Environments
Looking for Solutions
52. Gaia Vince: From One Farmer, Hope - and Reason for Worry
53. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, Christopher D. Merrett and Patrick McLaughlin: Direct from Farm to Table: Community Supported Agriculture in Western Illinois
54. Erik Stokstad: Could Less Meat Mean More Food?
55. Kerin O'Dea: Marked Improvement in Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Diabetic Australian Aborigines After Temporary Reversion to Traditional Lifes
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
Index

Darna L Dufour is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has conducted long term field research on food and nutrition with Tukanoan Indians in the Amazon, and economically disadvantaged women in urban Colombia. Alan Goodman is Vice President of Academic Affairs/Dean of faculty and Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. He teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes such as poverty, inequality and racism. Goodman co-directs the American Anthropological Association's public education project on race and is a past president of that association. Gretel Pelto is a Graduate Professor (retired from active teaching). She is currently active in research on infant and young child feeding, as well as maternal health and nutrition. She has conducted research in Mexico, the Philippines, and most recently in Ghana.

Special Features

• Substantive section introductions with maps provide both instructors and students with a broad overview of the topic and the location of case studies referred to.
• A wide range of articles that vary in length, complexity and intended audience for accessiblity to all undergraduates. Many of the articles are foundational for graduate students.
• Suggested readings for each section provide a brief guide to the literature for instructors and interested students.
• Exercises for "Thinking and Doing" in each section provide the instructor with ideas for activities in experiential learning that expand on the topic of each section.

• Seven original essays written specifically for this book.
• Completely revised sets of readings, section introductions, and pedagogical material.
• Maps showing the locations of case studies.
• A new section, "Looking for Solutions," helps students solve issues relating to food and nutrition.