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Aborampah O. 1985. Determinants of Breast-Feeding and Post-Partum Sexual Abstinence: Analysis of a Sample of Yoruba Women, Western Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science 17:461-469. [infant feeding; Africa]

Recommended -- click for detailsAcho-Chi C. 2002. The Mobile Street Food Service Practice in the Urban Economy of Kumba, Cameroon. Singpore Journal of Tropical Geography 23(2):131-148. [food distribution; Africa]

Almedom AM. 1991. Infant Feeding in Urban Low-Income Households in Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 25:97-109. [infant nutrition; Africa]

Anigbo OA. 1987. Commensality and Human Relationship among the Igbo. University of Nigeria Press. [social relations; African; Nigeria; Igbo]

Aunger R. 1994. Are Food Avoidances Maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire? Journal of Anthropological Research 50:277-310. [proscriptions; Africa]

Aunger R. 1994. Sources of Variation in Ethnographic Interview Data: Food Avoidances in the Ituri Forest. Ethnology 33(1):65-99. [food proscriptions; Africa; Zaire]

Bahuchet K. 1988. Food Supply and Uncertainty among the Alca Pygmies. In Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply. I de Garine, G Harrison, eds. pp. 118-149. [food insecurity; hunger; Pygmies; Africa]

Bearak B. 2003. Why People Still Starve. New York Times Magazine:32-52. [famine; seasonal hunger; economic causes; Africa; Malawi]

Becker L. 2000. Garden Money Buys Grain: Food Procurement Patterns in Malian Village. Human Ecology 28(22):219-. [food system; Africa; Mali]

Bentley M, Pelto G. 1991. The Household Production of Nutrition. Social Science and Medicine 33:1101-1102. [change; household; child nutrition; Africa; Nigeria]

Bernus E. 1988. Seasonality, Climate Fluctuations, and Food Supplies. In Coping with Uncertainity in Food Supply. I de Garine, GA Harrison, eds. pp. 318-336. Oxford University Press. [change; ecology; nomadic pastoral food systems; Africa; Sahel]

Berry L, Downing TE. 1994. Drought and Famine in Africa. In The Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons Learned. J Field, ed pp. 35-58. Kumarian Press. [disaster; Africa]

Biassoni P, Ravera G, Bourdoux P. 1998. Influence of Dietary Habits on Thyroid Status of a Nomadic People. European Journal of Endocrinology 138(6):681-. [nutritional deficiency; Africa; Bororo]

Blum L, Pelto G, Pelto P. 2004. Coping with a Nutrient Deficiency: Cultural Models of Vitamin a Deficiency in Northern Nigeria. Medical Anthropology 23(3):195-227. [disease; nightblindness; xerophthalmia; medical beliefs; Africa; Hausa]

Bourne LT, Lambert EV, Steyn K. 2002. Where Does the Black Population of South Africa Stand on the Nutrition Transition? Public Health Nutrition 5:157-162. [dietary change; disease; obesity; physical activity; hypertension;diabetes; Africa]

Brenton B. 1998. Pellagra and Nutrition Policy: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine to the New South Africa. Nutritional Anthropology 22(1):1-11. [malnutrition; diet and disease; pellagra; Africa; Europe; South Africa; Mozambique; Malawi; Ireland]

Brown EP. 1991. Sex and Starvation: Famine and Three Chadian Societies. In The Political Economy of African Famine. R Downs, D Kerner, S Reyna, eds. pp. 293-321. [disaster; social class; gender; Africa; Chad]

Burns C. 2004. Effect of Migration on Food Habits of Somali Women Living as Refugees in Australia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 43(3):213-229. [migration; economic transition; acculturation; diet; overweight; obesity; food habits; Africa; Somalia; Australia]

Bwibo NO, Neumann CG. 2003. The Need for Animal Source Foods by Kenyan Children. Journal of Nutrition 133(11):3936S-3940S. [child nutrition; malnutrition; meat eating; Africa; Kenya]

Campbell D. 1999. Response to Drought among Farmers and Herders in Southern Kajiado District, Kenya: A Comparison of 1972-1976 and 1994-1995. Human Ecology 27(3):377-475. [food shortage;insecurity; Africa; Kenya]

Caputo A, Foraita R, Pigeot I. 2003. Undernutrition in Benin -- an Analysis Based on Graphical Models. Social Science and Medicine 56(8):1677-1691. [hunger; Africa]

Recommended -- click for detailsCarael M. 1978. Relations between Birth Intervals and Nutrition in Three Central African Populations. In Nutrition and Human Reproduction. WH Moseley, ed pp. 355-384. Plenum Press. [maternal nutrition; reproduction; Africa; Zaire]

Carney J. 2001. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Harvard University Press. [history; Atlantic World; Africa; Gambia; North America; South Carolina; Georgia; South America; Eastern Amazon]

Christensen D, Orech F, Mungai M, et al. 2006. Entomophagy among the Luo of Kenya: A Potential Mineral Source? International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 57(3-4):198-203. [food use; insects; mineral nutrition; Africa; Kenya; Luo]

Clay J, Holcomb B. 1986. Politics and the Ethiopian Famine, 1984-1985 (Cultural Survival Report). Cultural Survival. [mass starvation; Africa; Ethiopia]

Colson E. 1979. In Good Years and Bad: Food Strategies of Self-Reliant Societies. Journal of Anthropological Research 35:18-29. [famine; hunger; social relations; Africa]

Conelly WT, Chaiken M. 2000. Intensive Farming, Agro-Diversity, and Food Security under Condition of Extreme Population Pressure in Western Kenya. Human Ecology 28(1):19-. [food system; Africa; Kenya]

Cosminsky S, Mhloyi M, Ewbank D. 1993. Child Feeding Practices in a Rural Area of Zimbabwe. Social Science and Medicine 36:937-947. [child feeding; Africa; Zimbabwe]

Cove J. 1978. Survival or Extinction: Reflections on the Problem of Famine in Tsimshian and Kaguru Mythology. In Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. C Laughlin, I Brady, eds. pp. 231-244. Columbia University Press. [starvation; mythology; North American Indian; Africa; Tsimshian; Kuguru]

Curran HV. 1994. Nigerian Children: Developmental Perspectives. Routledge & Kegan Paul. [collected essays; infant feeding; nutrition; Africa]

Curry J. 1989. Occupation and Drought Vulnerability: Case Studies from a Village in Niger. In African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, eds. pp. 230-260. Gordon and Breach. [drought and hunger; malnutrition; Africa; Niger]

Recommended -- click for detailsDavies-Adetaghs AA. 1997. Sociocultural Factors and the Promotion of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rual Yoruba Communities of Osun State Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine 45:113-125. [infant nursing; Africa]

Dettwyler K. 1993. Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Waveland. [nutritional anthropology; childhood nutrition; nutritional status; ethnography; Africa; Mali; Bambara]

Dettwyler KA. 1991. Growth Status of Children in Rural Mali: Implications of for Nutrition Education Programs. American Journal of Human Biology 3:447-462. [child nutrition; growth status; nutritional education; Africa; Mali]

Dettwyler KA. 1992. The Biocultural Approach in Nutritional Anthropology: Case Studies of Malnutrition in Mali. Medical Anthropology 15:17-39. [biocultural anthropology; nutritional anthropology; diet and disease; Africa; Mali]

Dirks R. 1989. Famine, Hunger Seasons, and Relief-Induced Agonism. In African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, eds. pp. 295-302. New York: Gordon and Breach. [seasonal starvation; relief-induced agonism; rituals of conflict; Africa]

Dirks R. 2003. Diet and Nutrition in Poor and Minority Communities in the United States 100 Years Ago. Annual Review of Nutrition 23:81-100. [nutritional history; poverty; immigrants; North America; United States; African-Americans; Appalachia]

Downs RE, Kerner D, Reyna S. 1991. The Political Economy of African Famine. Gordon and Breach. [history; mass starvation; political economy; international relations; development; Africa]

Dyson-Hudson R, Dyson-Hudson N. 1969. Subsistence Herding in Uganda. Scientific American 220(2):76-89. [ecology; pastoralists; Africa; Uganda]

Fa JE, Juste JL, Burn RW, et al. 2002. Bushmeat Consumption and Preferences of Two Ethnic Groups in Bioko Island, West Africa. Human Ecology 30(3):397-416. [food choice; Equatorial Guinea; Bubi; Farg]

Feyisetan BJ. 1990. Postpartum Sexual Abstinence, Breastfeeding, and Child Spacing among Yoruba Women in Urban Nigeria. Social Biology 37:110-127. [infant feeding; contraception; Africa]

Fleuret P, Fleuret A. 1980. Nutritional Implications of Staple Food Crop Successions in Usambara, Tanzania. Human Ecology 8:311-327. [ecology; Africa; Tanzania; Usambara Mountains]

Flueret P, Flueret A. 1980. Nutrition, Consumption, and Agricultural Change. Human Organization 39:250-260. [change; nutritional effects; Africa]

Important Reading -- click for detailsFlynn KC. 1999. Food, Gender, and Survival among Street Adults in Mwanza, Tanzania. Food and Foodways 8(3):175-201. [hunger; poverty; homeless; social relations; Africa]

Flynn KC. 2005. Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City. Palgrave Macmillan. [gender; migration; exchange; sex; charity; entitlement; social relations; hunger; Tanzania; Mwanza]

Forrester T. 2004. Historic and Early Life Origins of Hypertension in Africans. Journal of Nutrition 134(1):211-216. [cardovascular disease; salt intake; fetal programming; Africa]

Fortes M, Fortes SL. 1936. Food in the Domestic Economy of the Tallensi. Africa 9:237-276. [social relations; family; household; food habits; Africa; Tallensi]

Franke R, Chasin B. 1980. Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel. Osmun Publishers. [mass starvation; ecology; Africa; Western Sahel]

Fratkin E, Roth E, Nathan M. 2004. Pastoral Sedentarization and Its Effects on Children’s Diet, Health, and Growth among Rendille of Northern Kenya. Human Ecology 32(5):531-559. [pastoralism; sedentarization; child nutrition; growth; East Africa]

Fratkin E, Roth EA, Nathan M. 1999. When Nomads Settle: The Effects of Commoditization, Nutritional Change, and Formal Education on Ariaal and Rendille Pastoralists. Current Anthropology 40(5):729-735. [sedentarization; dietary change; nomads; East Africa; Kenya; Ariaal; Rendille]

Galvin KA, Coppock DL, Leslie PW. 1994. Diet, Nutrition, and Pastoral Strategy. In African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach. E Fratkin, KA Galvin, EA Roth, eds. pp. 113-131. Lynne Rienner. [ecology; nutritional status; Africa; Kenya; Ethiopia; Turkana; Borana]

de Garine I. 1976. Food, Tradition and Prestige. In Food, Nutrition, and Evolution: Food as an Environmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability. D Walcher, ed pp. 151-173. [social relations; prestige; Africa]

de Garine I. 1991. Seasonal Food Shortage, Famine and Socio-Economic Change among the Massa and Mussey of Northern Cameroon. In Famine and Food Security in Africa and Asia: Indigenous Responses and External Intervention to Avoid Hunger. HG Bohle, T Canon, G Hugo, et al, eds. pp. 83-99. [starvation; hunger; development; Africa; Cameroon]

An Informative Collection -- click for detailsde Garine I. 1996. Food and the Status Quest in Five African Cultures. In Food and the Status Quest. P Wiessner, W Schiefenhovel, eds. pp. 193-217. Berghahn. [social relations; Africa; Cameroon; Massa; Mussey; Koma; Yassa; Mvae]

de Garine I. 1997. Food Preferences and Taste in an African Perspective: A Word of Caution. In Food Preferences and Taste. H Macbeth, ed pp. 187-207. Berghahn. [cultural affects on food choice; Africa; Cameroon; Massa; Muzey; Yassa; Mvae]

Glantz M. 1987. Drought and Hunger in Africa. [famine; undernutrition; Africa]

Glew RS. 2006. Coping Strategies and Nutritional Health in Rural Niger: Recommendations for Consumption of Wild Plant Foods in the Sahel. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 57:314-324. [food use; plant foods; emergency foods; Africa]

Gray S. 1996. Ecology of Weaning among Nomadic Pastoralists of Kenya: Maternal Thinking, Maternal Behaviour, and Human Adaptive Strategies. Human Biology 68:437-462. [infant feeding; food systems; Africa]

Gray SJ. 1995. Correlates of Breastfeeding Frequency among Nomadic Pastoralists of Turkana, Kenya: A Retrospective Study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98:239-255. [infant feeding; Africa]

Guyer J. 1987. Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. Indiana University Press. [food system; urban markets; supply; Africa]

Hansen A. 1986. Coping with Famine, Drought, and War in Sub-Saharan Africa: Natural Disasters and Cultural Responses. Studies in Third World Societies 36:227-254. [poverty; disaster; mass starvation; indigenous coping strategies; social responses; Africa]

Harlan JR, de Wet JMJ, Stemler ABL. 1976. Origins of African Plant Domestication. [collected essays; origins of agriculture; Africa]

den Hartog AP. 1973. The Use of Rodents as Food in Tropical Africa. Fao Nutrition Newsletter 11(2):1-14. [food species; mice; rats; Africa]

den Hartog AP. 1974. Tropical Africa. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. [bibliography; Africa]

Holtzman J. 2001. The Food of Elders, The "Ration" Of Women: Brewing, Gender, and Domestic Processes among the Samburu of Northern Kenya. American Anthropologist 104(4):1041-1058. [foodstuff; beer; gender; social relations; Africa]

Recommended -- click for detailsHoward M. 1994. Socio-Economic Causes and Cultural Explanations of Childhood Malnutrition among the Chagga of Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine 38(2):239-251. [malnutrition; children; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga]

Howard M, Millard A. 1997. Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. Routledge. [child malnutrition; poverty; social relations; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga]

Hudelson P, Dzikuna H, Kirkwood B. 1999. Dietary Patterns in a Rural Area of Ghana and Their Relevance for Vitamin a Consumption. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 38(2):183-. [dietary; vitamin A; Africa; Ghana]

Hunter J. 1973. Geophagy in Africa and the U S : A Culture-Nutrition Hypothesis. Geography Review 1973:171-195. [disease; geophagy; dirt-eating; Africa; North America; United States]

Huss-Ashmore R. 1996. Livestock, Nutrition, and Intrahousehold Resource Control in Uasin Gishu District, Kenya. Human Ecology 24(2):191-213-. [ecology; intrahousehold food allocation (distribution); Africa; Kenya]

Huss-Ashmore R, Katz S. 1989. African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. Gordon and Breach. [famine; disaster; seasonal hunger; ecology; social relations; Africa]

Huss-Ashmore R, Katz S. 1991. African Food Systems in Crisis, Part Two: Contending with Change. Gordon and Breach. [famine; disaster; seasonal hunger; ecology; social relations; Africa]

Ikpe EB. 1994. Food and Society in Nigeria: A History of Food Customs, Food Economy, and Culture Change, 1900-1989. Franz Steiner Verlag. [modernization; Africa]

Jackson FLC. 1992. Cassava (Manihot Esculenta) in Liberia: History, Geography, Traditional Processing and Cyanogenic Acid Levels. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 28:227-242. [food use; manioc; Africa; Liberia]

Jardine C. 1967. List of Foods Used in Africa. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. [foodstuffs]

Jarosz LA. 1993. Liberian Practices in Feeding Infants Water, Breastmilk and First Food. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 30(221):240-. [infant feeding; Africa]

Jenike M. 1995. Variation in Body Fat and Muscle Mass: Responses to Seasonal Hunger among Tropical Horticulturalists, Zaire. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 1995:227-249. [seasonal hunger; physical responses; Africa; Zaire (Congo)]

Jones WO. 1959. Manioc in Africa. Stanford University Press. [food use; cassava; Africa]

Kerr RB. 2005. Food Security in Northern Malawi: Gender, Kinship Relations, and Entitlements in Historical Context. Journal of Southern African Studies 31(1):53-74. [food habits; gender relations; household organization; Africa; Ekwendeni; Tumbuka-speakers; Ngoni]

Kigutha H, Staveren van W, Hautvast J. 1998. Elderly under Nutritional Stress: A Seasonal Study on Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in Kenya. Internation Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 49:423-433. [season hunger; Africa; Kenya]

Kitabatake N, Gimbi DN, Oi Y. 2003. Traditional Non-Alcoholic Beverage, Togwa, in East Africa, Produced from Maize Flour and Germinated Finger Millet. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 54(6):447-456. [foodstuff; preparation; Africa]

Knutson KE, Selinus R. 1970. Fasting in Ethiopia: An Anthropological and Nutritional Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 23:956-969. [fasting; Africa; Ethiopia]

Kolata G. 1974. !Kung Hunter-Gatherers: Feminism, Diet, and Birth Control. Science 185:932-934. [dietary pattern; women; maternal nutrition; reproduction; hunter-gatherers; Africa; Kung]

Kotler NG. 1992. Frontiers of Nutrition and Food Security in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Smithsonian Institution Press. [collected essays; world hunger]

Kugutha H, Wija A, Hautvast JGAJ. 1998. Effects of Seasonality on Household Food Availability among Smallholder Rural Households in Kenya: Impact of Land Size, Household Size, and Composition. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 37(1):73-. [seasonal hunger; Africa; Kenya]

Kumar S, Siandwazi C. 1994. Maize in Zambia: Effects of Technological Change on Food Consumption and Nutrition. In Agricultural Commercialization, Economic Development, and Nutrition. Jv Braun, E Kennedy, eds. pp. 295-308. [change and development; food use; Africa; Zambia]

Laughlin C, Jr. 1978. Adaptation and Exchange in So: A Diachronic Study of Deprivation. In Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. C Laughlin, Jr., I Brady, eds. pp. 76-94. Columbia University Press. [social relations; disaster; hunger; economic exchange; Africa; Uganda; So]

Lawrence M, Singh J, Lawrence F, et al. 1985. The Energy Cost of Common Daily Activities in African Women: Increased Expenditure in Pregancy? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 42:753-763. [physiology; energy expenditure; women; pregnancy; Africa]

Lee R. 1968. What Hunters Do for a Living, or How to Make out on Scarce Resources. In Man the Hunter. R Lee, I DeVore, eds. pp. 30-48. Aldine. [ecology; Africa; !Kung]

Lee R. 1969. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari. Natural History 78(10):14-22. [social relations; food giving; sharing; Africa; Kung San]

Lee R. 1969. Kung Bushman Subsistence: An Input-Output Analysis. In Environment and Cultural Behavior. AP Vayda, ed pp. 47-79. Natural History Press. [ecology; dietary patterns; Africa; !Kung]

Lee R. 1973. Monogongo: The Ethnography of a Major Wild Food Resource. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 3:89-105. [ecology; foodstuff; nuts; Africa; !Kung]

Lee R. 1979. The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society. Cambridge University Press. [ecology; diet patterns; Africa; !Kung]

Lentz C, ed (1998) Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe. Gordon and Breach. [collected papers; change; Africa; South America; Europe]

Lewicki T. 1974. West African Food in the Middle Ages: According to Arabic Sources. [history; Africa]

Little MA, Galvin K, Leslie PW. 1988. Health and Energy Requirements of Nomadic Turkana Pastoralists. In Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply. I de Garine, G Harrison, eds. pp. 290-317. Oxford University Press. [nutritional need; caloric requirements; Africa; Turkana]

Lockett C, Calvert C, Grivetti L. 2000. Energy and Micronutrient Composition of Dietary and Medicinal Wild Plants Consumed During Drought: Study of Rural Fulani, Northeastern Nigeria. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 51:195-208. [famine; food species; vegetable foraging; social conditions; Africa]

Lockett CT, Grivetti LE. 2000. Food-Related Behaviors During Drought: A Study of Rural Fulani, Northeastern Nigeria. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 51(2):91-107. [food shortage; Africa; Nigeria; Fulani]

Luke A, Cooper RS, Prewitt TE, et al. 2001. Nutritional Consequences of the African Diaspora. Annual Review of Nutrition 21:47-71. [nutritional transition; undernutrition; deficiency disease; overnutrition; Africa; Europe; North America]

Luoba AI. 2005. Earth-Eating and Reinfection with Intestinal Helminths among Pregnant and Lactating Women in Western Kenya. Tropical Medicine and International Health 10(3):220-227. [disease; geophagy; pica; Ascaris; Trichuris; hookworm; Africa]

Luoba AI, Geissler PW, Estambale B, et al. 2005. Earth-Eating and Reinfection with Intestinal Helminths among Pregnant and Lactating Women in Western Kenya. Tropical Medicine and International Health 10(3):220-227. [disease; geophagy; hookworm; Africa; Kenya; Nyanza Province]

Mabilia M. 2000. The Cultural Context of Childhood Diarrhea among Gogo Infants. Anthropology & Medicine 7:191-208. [breastfeeding; disease; beliefs; taboos; Africa; Tanzania; Wagogo]

Mackintosh M. 1989. Gender, Class, and Rural Transition: Agribusiness and the Food Crisis in Senegal. Zed Books. [hunger; gender relations; development; agribusiness; Africa; Senegal]

Manda SOM. 1999. Birth Intervals, Breastfeeding, and Determinants of Childhood Mortality in Malawi. Social Science and Medicine 48:301-312. [infant feeding; Africa]

Mandala E. 2006. Feeding and Fleecing the Native: How the Nyasaland Transport System Distorted a New Food Market, 1890s-1920s. Journal of Southern African Studies 32(3):505-524(520). [history; colonialism; food supply; hunger; Africa]

Mann GV. 1963. Diet and Disease among the Milk and Meat Eating Masai Warriors of Tanganyika. Food and Nutrition 34:104-. [meat eating; Africa; Masai]

Marlowe FW. 2004. What Explains Hadza Food Sharing? Research in Economic Anthropology 23. [food sharing; food collectors; Africa; Hadza]

Marshall L. 1961. Sharing, Talking, and Giving: Relief of Social Tensions among Kung Bushmen. Africa 31:231-249. [social relations; sharing; giving; Africa; Kung San]

Martin DL, Armelagos GJ, Henderson KA. 1989. Peristence of Nutritional Stress in Northeastern African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations. In African Food Systems in Crisis. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, eds. Gordon and Breach. [hunger; undernutrition; Africa; Sudan; Nubia]

McAllister P. 2004. Domestic Space, Habitus, and Xhosa Ritual Beer-Drinking. Ethnology 43(2):117-136. [food use; brew; symbolic space; South Africa; Xhosa]

McAlpin M. 1987. Famine Relief Policy in India: Six Lessons for Africa. [famine; relief; government policy; South Asia; Africa]

McCullough A, Kirksey A, Wachs TD. 1990. Vitamin B Status of Egyptian Mothers: Relation to Infant Behavior and and Maternal-Infant Interaction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 51:108-. [nutritional status; mother-infant behavior; social interaction; Africa; Egypt]

Mellor JW, Gavian S. 1987. Famine: Causes, Prevention, and Relief. Science 235(4788):539-545. [food shortage; Africa]

Miller NF, Wetterson W. 2000. The Beginnings of Agriculture: The Ancient near East and North Africa. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1123-1139. [origins of agriculture]

Milton K. 1985. Ecological Foundations for Subsistence Strategies among the Mbuti Pygmies. Human Ecology 12:71-78. [ecology; food procurement; Africa; Congo; Mbuti Pygmies]

Miracle M. 1961. "Seasonal Hunger:" A Vague Concept and an Unexplored Problem. Bulletin De L'ifan 23 (Series B):173-. [undernutrition; Africa]

Mkumbira J. 2003. Classification of Cassava into `Bitter' and `Cool' in Malawi: From Farmers' Perception to Characterisation by Molecular Markers. Euphytica 132(1):7-22(16). [classification; perception; cassava cultivars; cyanogenic glucosides; molecular markers; Manihot esculenta; Africa]

Munroe R, Munroe R, Nerlove S, et al. 1969. Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 10(3):161-171. [symbolic meaning; expressive culture (stories, dreams, etc ); population density; hunger; Logoli; Gusii; Kipsigis; East Africa]

Recommended -- click for detailsNegash A, Niehof A. 2004. The Significance of Enset Culture and Biodiversity for Rural Household Food and Livelihood Security in Southwestern Ethiopia. Agriculture and Human Values 2004(21):1-61. [ecology; biodiversity; food species, enset; food security; social relations; gender; household; livelihood; Africa]

Netting R. 1986. Cultural Ecology. Waveland. [ecology; subsistance systems; Africa (Kung San, East African Pastoralists); North America (Northwest Coast Indians); Europe (Swiss)]

Newman JL. 2000. Africa South from the Sahara. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1330-1339. Cambridge University Press. [prehistory; origins of agriculture; history; diet and disease; Africa]

Nti CA, Larweh PM, Gyemfua-Yeboah Y. 2002. Food Consumption Patterns, Dietary Quality and Health Status of Expectant Mothers: Case Studies in Suburban and Rural Communities in Ghana. International Journal of Consumer Studies 26(1):7-14(18). [eating habits; dietary quality; disease; anaemia; Africa]

Nurse GT. 1975. Seasonal Hunger among the Ngoni and Ntumba of Central Malawi. Africa 45(1):1-11. [seasonal starvation; Africa; Malawi; Ngoni; Ntumba]

Odebiyi A. 1989. Food Taboos in Maternal and Child Health: The Views of Traditional Healers in Ile-Ife Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine 28:985-996. [taboos; child health; Africa; Nigeria]

Ogbu J. 1973. Seasonal Hunger in Tropical Africa as a Cultural Phenomenon. Africa 43(4):317-332. [seasonal hunger; meaning; Africa]

Oguntona CRB, Razaq MA, Akintola TT. 1998. Pattern of Dietary Intake and Consumption of Street Foods among Nigerian Students. Nutrition and Health 12:247-256. [nutritional intake; food use; students; Africa; Nigeria]

Ojofeitimi EO, Tanimowo CM. 1980. Nutritional Beliefs among Pregnant Nigerian Women. International Journal Gynaecology and Obstetrics 18:66-69. [foodways; beliefs; Africa; Nigeria]

Okere LC. 1983. The Anthropology of Food in Rural Igboland, Nigeria. University Press of America. [food habits; Africa; Nigeria; Igbo]

O'Laughlin B. 1974. Mediation of Contradiction: Why Mbum Women Do Not Eat Chicken. In Women, Culture, and Society. M Rosaldo, L Lamphere, eds. [taboo; symbolism; women; Africa; Mbum]

Informative -- click for detailsOni G, Brown K. 1988. Force Feeding: A Traditional Feeding Practice of Infants and Young Children in Kwara State Nigeria. In Toward More Efficacy in Child Survival Strategies. I Sirogeldin, W Mosley, eds. The Johns Hopkins University Press. [food habits; infant and child feeding practices; Africa; Nigeria]

Orwell S, Clayton D, Douglas AE. 1984. Infant Feeding in Nigeria. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 15:129-141. [infant feeding; Africa; Nigeria]

Osseo-Asari F. 2005. Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenwood. [foods; foodways; regional cuisines; Africa]

Pankhurst R. 1966. The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences 21(2 and 3):95-124, 271-194-. [famine; Ethiopia; Africa]

Paque C. 1984. Infant Salt Taboos in Morocco. Current Anthropology 25:237-238. [infant feeding; food taboo; Africa; Morocco]

Recommended -- click for detailsPawloski L. 2006. A Comparison of Nutritional Indicators from Bambara and Fulani Girls Born in Paris, France and in the Segou Region of Mali. Nutritional Anthropology 27-28(1-2/1-2):13-23. [adolescent nutrition; growth; Europe; Africa]

Peterson D. 2003. Eating Apes. University of California Press. [meat eating; foodstuffs; bushmeat (wild game); hunting; conservation; Africa]

Pi J, Groves C. 1972. The Importance of Higher Primates in the Diet of the Fang of Rio Muni. Man 7:238-244. [food use; ape meat; Africa; Fang]

Pilcher JM. 2000. The Caribbean from 1942 to the Present. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1278-1288. Cambridge University Press. [history; diet and disease; slave diet; modern diet; Caribbean; African-Caribbean; Asian-Caribbean]

Quandt SA, Ritenbaugh C. 1986. Training Manual in Nutritional Anthropology. American Anthropological Association. [nutritional anthropology; methods; regional surveys; East Africa; Middle East; Bangladesh; Amazonia; North America]

Quinn PJ. 1959. Food and Feeding Habits of the Pedi: With Special Reference to Identification, Classification, Preparation and Nutritional Value. Witwatersrand University Press. [food habits; Africa; South Africa; Pedi]

Raschke V, Oltersdorf U, Elmadfa I, et al. 2008. Investigation of the Dietary Intake and Health Status in East Africa in the 1960s: A Systematic Review of the Historic Oltersdorf Collection. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 47:1.

Rau B. 1990. From Feast to Famine: Official Cures and Grassroots Remedies to Africa Food Crisis. [famine; hunger; Africa]

Richards A. 1939. Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. Lit Verlag. [social relations, diet, food habits; Africa; Bemba]

Richards A. 1948. Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe. Routledge. [social relations; food habits; Africa; Bantu-speaking tribes]

Richards A, Widdowson E. 1936. A Dietary Study in Northeastern Rhodesia. Africa 9:166-196. [dietary patterns; Africa; Bemba]

Riet H, den Hartog AP, Mwangi AM, et al. 2001. The Role of Street Foods in the Dietary Pattern of Two Low-Income Groups in Nairobi. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 55(7):562-570. [foodstuffs, street foods; Africa; Kenya; Nairobi]

Salvador ML. 1987. Food for the Holy Ghost: Ritual Exchange in Azorean Festivals. In Time out of Time: Essays on the Festival. A Falassi, ed pp. 244-260. University of New Mexico Press. [food in ritual; festival; religion; symbol and meaning; Europe; Africa; Azores]

Savy M, MartinPrevel Y, Traissac P, et al. 2006. Dietary Diversity Scores and Nutritional Status of Women Change During the Seasonal Food Shortage in Rural Burkina Faso. Journal of Nutrition 136:2625. [nutrition; hunger; diet; Africa]

Schmitt E, Graebner W. 1991. Sukumawiki: Food and Drink in the Nairobi Novels of Meja Mwangi. In Popular Culture in East Africa. W Graebner, ed pp. 133-151. Rodopi. [foodways; Africa]

Scott EM. 2001. Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation. American Anthropologist 103(3):671-691. [history; archaeology; social relations; North America; Louisiana; French; Anglo-American; African-American]

Sealy J, Pfeiffer S. 2000. Diet, Body Size, and Landscape Use among Holocene People in the Southern Cape, South Africa. Current Anthropology 41(4):642-654. [prehistory; hunter-gatherer; food foraging; Africa; Khoisani]

Shack D. 1969. Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia. Ethnology 8(3):292-300. [social relations; childrearing; personality; Africa; Ethiopia; Gurage]

Shack W. 1971. Hunger, Anxiety and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession among the Gurage of Ethiopia. Man 6:30-43. [hunger; culture and personality; ritual; religion; Africa; Ethiopia; Gurage]

Sheehan E. 1993. In the Heart of Somalia. The New York Review of Books XL(1-2):38-53. [famine; Africa; Somalia, 1992-93]

Shellie-Dessert K, Hosfield GL. 1990. Implications of Genetic Variability for Dry Bean Cooking Time and Novel Cooking Methods for Fuelwood Conservation in Rwanda. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 24:195-211. [food processing; legumes; cookery; ecology; Africa; Rwanda]

Shipton P. 1990. African Famines and Food Security: Anthropological Perspectives. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:353-394. [famine; Africa]

Shofield S. 1974. Seasonal Factors Affecting Nutrition in Different Age Groups and Especially Pre-School Children. Journal of Development Studies 11(1):22-40. [seasonal hunger; Africa]

Sih A, Milton K. 1985. Optimal Diet Theory: Should The !Kung Eat Mongongos? American Anthropologist 87:395-401. [ecology; foodstuff; Africa; Namibia; South Africa; !Kung San]

Simon D, Adams AM, Madhavan S. 2002. Women's Social Power: Child Nutrition and Poverty in Mali. Journal of Biosocial Science 34:193-213. [child nutrition; gender relations; social status; Africa; Fulbe]

Recommended -- click for detailsSimoons F. 1974. Rejection of Fish as Human Food in Africa: A Problem in History and Ecology. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 3:89-105. [food taboo; fish; Africa]

Snow LF. 1993. Walkin' over Medicine. Westview. [foodways; food-related beliefs; folk medicine; North America; United States; African-Americans]

Spivey D. 1999. The Pepper, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook: The Global Migration of African Cuisine. University of New York Press. [history; disaspora; Africa]

Sukkary-Stolba S. 1989. Indigenous Institutions and Adaptation to Famine: The Case of the Western Sudan. In African Food Systems in Crisis Part One: Microperspectives. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, eds. pp. 281-294-. Gordon and Breach. [famine; cultural adaptations; Africa; Sudan]

Tonglet R. 1999. How Useful Are Anthropometric, Clinical and Dietary Measurements of Nutritional Status as Predictors of Morbidity of Young Children in Central Africa. Tropical Medicine International Health 4(2):120-130(111). [research method; prognostic value; growth; morbidity; children; Africa]

Trant H. 1954. Food Taboos in East Africa. Lancet 8:703-705. [food taboos; East Africa]

Classic -- click for detailsTripp R. 1982. Farmers and Traders, Some Economic Determinants of Nutritional Status in North Ghana. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 8:3-11. [nutritional status; economy; Africa; Ghana]

Turnbull C. 1972. The Mountain People. Simon and Schuster. [famine; social relations; Africa; Uganda; Ik]

Turnbull C. 1978. Rethinking the Ik: A Functional Non-Social System. In Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. C Laughlin, I Brady, eds. pp. 49-75. Columbia University Press. [famine; social relations; Africa; Uganda; Ik]

Vahatalo L. 2005. Schoolchildren's Food Consumption and Dietary Intake During the Dry Season in North-West Namibia. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 56(6):367-375(369). [food consumption; child nutrition; dietary intake; dry season; seasonal hunger; Africa; Namibia]

Vaughan M. 1987. The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi. Cambridge University Press. [famine; Africa; Malawi]

Vermeer DE. 1971. Geophagy among the Ewe of Ghana. Ethnology 10:56-72. [food habits; geophagy (dirt-eating); health; disease; Africa; Ghana; Ewe]

Vermeer DE, Ferrell RE, Jr. 1985. Nigerian Geophagical Clay: A Tradition Antidiarrheal Pharmaceutical. Science 227:364-366. [food habits; geophagy (dirt-eating); disease; diarrhea; Africa; Nigeria]

Waal Ad. Famine That Kills, Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985. [famine, Africa; Sudan]

Waldemann E. 1973. Seasonal Variations in Malnutrition in Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67:431-. [seasonal hunger; malnutrition; Africa]

Watts M. 1983. Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. University of California Press. [famine; Africa; Nigeria]

Webb P, Habtu Y. 1994. Famine in Africa. National Geographic Research and Exploration 10:158-171. [famine; Africa]

Webb P, von Braun J. 1994. Famine and Food Security in Ethiopia: Lessons for Africa. John Wiley. [famine; Africa; Ethiopia]

Webb P, von Braun J, Yohannes Y. 1992. Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and Household Levels. International Food Policy Research Institute. [famine; political policy; Africa; Ethiopia]

important book -- click for detailsWhittemore RD, Beverly EA. 1996. Mandinka Mothers and Nurslings: Power and Reproduction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(1):45-62. [infant feeding; Africa]

Willis J. 2002. Potent Brews: A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999. Ohio University Press. [history; food use; beer; Africa]

Wilmsen E. 1978. Seasonal Effects of Dietary Intake on Kalahari San. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Proceedings 37:65-72. [dietary intake; food system; ecology; South Africa; Kalahari Desert; San]

Wilmsen E. 1982. Studies in Diet, Nutrition, and Fertility among a Group of Kalahari Buhmen in Botswana. Social Science Information 21:95-125. [diet; nutrition; fertility; Africa; Botswana; San]

Young H, Jaspars S. 1995. Nutrition Matters: People, Food, and Famine. Intermediate Technology Publications. [famine; nutritional stress; Africa; Sudan; Darfur]

Yovsi RD, Keller H. 2003. Breastfeeding: An Adaptive Process. Ethos 31(2):147-171. [infant feeding; cultural values; ecology; Africa; Cameroon; Nso; Fulani]

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