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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].

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

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

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

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

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Recommended -- click for detailsCarael M (1978) Relations between Birth Intervals and Nutrition in Three Central African Populations. in WH Moseley (ed) Nutrition and Human Reproduction. Plenum Press, pp. 355-384 [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].

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

Clay J; Holcomb B (1987) The Ethiopian Famine. Anthropology Today. 3 [mass starvation; Africa; Ethiopia].

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

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Cove J (1978) Survival or Extinction: Reflections on the Problem of Famine in Tsimshian and Kaguru Mythology. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 231-244 [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 R Huss-Ashmore; S Katz (eds) African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. Gordon and Breach, pp. 230-260- [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 R Huss-Ashmore; S Katz (eds) African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 295-302 [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 RaN (1969) Subsistence Herding in Uganda. Scientific American. 220:76-89 [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. 30:397-416 [food choice; ecology; 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. 8:175-201 [hunger; poverty; homeless; social relations; Africa].

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

Forrester T (2004) Historic and Early Life Origins of Hypertension in Africans. Journal of Nutrition. 134:211-216 [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. 32:531-559 [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. 40:729-735 [sedentarization; dietary change; nomads; East Africa; Kenya; Ariaal; Rendille].

Fruzzetti L; Ostor A; Ross S (2002) Fishers of Dar. in r L.; s A.; o S. (eds). Filmakers Library [food use; fish; change; Africa; Tanzania; Dar es Salaam].

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

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

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

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

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

Glantz M (1987) Drought and Hunger in Africa [famine; undernutrition; 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; Wet JMJd; Stemler ABL (1976) Origins of African Plant Domestication [collected essays; origins of agriculture; Africa].

Harrison G; Zaghloul S; Galal O, et al. (1993) Breastfeeding and Weaning in a Poor Urban Neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt: Maternal Beliefs and Perceptions. Social Science and Medicine. 36:1063-1069 [infant feeding; North Africa].

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

Hartog AP den (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. 104:1041-1058 [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. 38:239-251 [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. 38:183- [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. 30:240- [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. 31:53-74 [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. 54:447-456 [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. 37:73- [seasonal hunger; Africa; Kenya].

Kuhnlein HV; Johns T (2003) Northwest African and Middle Eastern Food and Dietary Change of Indigenous Peoples. Asian Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 12:344-349 [traditional knowledge; urbanization; food systems; Africa; Middle East].

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Laughlin C, Jr. (1978) Adaptation and Exchange in So: A Diachronic Study of Deprivation. in C Laughlin, Jr.; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 76-94 [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 R Lee; I DeVore (eds) Man the Hunter. Aldine, pp. 30-48 [ecology; Africa; !Kung].

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

Lee R (1969) Kung Bushman Subsistence: An Input-Output Analysis. in AP Vayda (ed) Environment and Cultural Behavior. Natural History Press, pp. 47-79 [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, editor (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 I de Garine; G Harrison (eds) Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply. Oxford University Press, pp. 290-317 [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. 51:91-107 [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. 10:220-227 [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. 10:220-227 [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].

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].

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 R Huss-Ashmore; S Katz (eds) African Food Systems in Crisis. Gordon and Breach [hunger; undernutrition; Africa; Sudan; Nubia].

McAllister P (2004) Domestic Space, Habitus, and Xhosa Ritual Beer-Drinking. Ethnology. 43:117-136 [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. 235:539-545 [food shortage; Africa].

Miller NF; Wetterson W (2000) The Beginnings of Agriculture: The Ancient near East and North Africa. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food, 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].

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. 10:161-171 [symbolic meaning; expressive culture (stories, dreams, etc ); population density; hunger; Logoli; Gusii; Kipsigis; East Africa].

Negash A; Niehof A (2004) The Significance of Enset Culture and Biodiversity for Rural Household Food and Livelihood Security in Recommended -- click for detailsSouthwestern Ethiopia. Agriculture and Human Values. 2004:1-61 [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 KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1330-1339 [prehistory; origins of agriculture; history; diet and disease; Africa].

Nurse GT (1975) Seasonal Hunger among the Ngoni and Ntumba of Central Malawi. Africa. 45:1-11 [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. 43:317-332 [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 M Rosaldo; L Lamphere (eds) Women, Culture, and Society [taboo; symbolism; women; Africa; Mbum].

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

Informative -- click for detailsOrwell 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. 21:95-124, Recommended -- click for details271-94- [famine; Ethiopia; Africa].

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

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].

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].

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; Hartog APd; 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. 55:562-570 [foodstuffs, street foods; Africa; Kenya; Nairobi].

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

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

Scott EM (2001) Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation. American Anthropologist. 103:671-691 [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. 41:642-654 [prehistory; hunter-gatherer; food foraging; Africa; Khoisani].

Shack D (1969) Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia. Ethnology. 8:292-300 [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:38-53 [famine; Africa; Somalia, 1992-93].

Shellie-Dessert K; osfield; L. e (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. 11:22-40 [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].

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 R Huss-Ashmore; S Katz (eds) African Food Systems in Crisis Part One: Microperspectives. Gordon and Breach, pp. 281-294- [famine; cultural adaptations; Africa; Sudan].

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 C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 49-75 [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. 56:367-375(9) [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 A de 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].

Recommended -- click for detailsWhittemore RD; Beverly EA (1996) Mandinka Mothers and Nurslings: Power and Reproduction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 10:45-62 [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].

Worthwhile -- click for detailsWright CA (1999) A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow [history; cookery; Europe; Middle East; North Africa].

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. 31:147-171 [infant feeding; cultural values; ecology; Africa; Cameroon; Nso; Fulani].

Zohary D; Hopf M (2000) Dometication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley. Clarendon Press [prehistory; origins of domestications; Europe; Middle East; North Africa (Nile Valley); West Asia].

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