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Aborampah O. 1985. Determinants of
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Bahuchet K. 1988. Food Supply and Uncertainty among the Alca Pygmies. In
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Carael M. 1978. Relations between Birth Intervals and Nutrition in Three
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Africa; Zaire]
Clay J, Holcomb B. 1986. Politics and the Ethiopian Famine, 1984-1985
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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]
Cove J. 1978. Survival or Extinction: Reflections on the Problem of Famine in
Tsimshian and Kaguru Mythology. In Extinction and Survival in Human
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Curry J. 1989. Occupation and Drought Vulnerability: Case Studies from a
Village in Niger. In African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One:
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Dirks R. 1989. Famine, Hunger Seasons, and Relief-Induced Agonism. In
African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. R Huss-Ashmore,
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relief-induced agonism; rituals of conflict; Africa]
Dyson-Hudson R, Dyson-Hudson N. 1969. Subsistence Herding in Uganda.
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Fleuret P, Fleuret A. 1980. Nutritional Implications of Staple Food Crop
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Tanzania; Usambara Mountains]
Flueret P, Flueret A. 1980. Nutrition, Consumption, and Agricultural Change.
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Fortes M, Fortes SL. 1936. Food in the Domestic Economy of the Tallensi.
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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]
de Garine I. 1976. Food, Tradition and Prestige. In Food, Nutrition, and
Evolution: Food as an Environmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability.
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Glantz M. 1987. Drought and Hunger in Africa. [famine; undernutrition;
Africa]
Guyer J. 1987. Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History.
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Hansen A. 1986. Coping with Famine, Drought, and War in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Natural Disasters and Cultural Responses. Studies in Third World Societies
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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
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den Hartog AP. 1974. Tropical Africa. Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. [bibliography; Africa]
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, Katz S. 1989. African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One:
Microperspectives. Gordon and Breach. [famine; disaster; seasonal hunger;
ecology; social relations; Africa]
Jardine C. 1967. List of Foods Used in Africa. Food and Agricultural
Organization of the United Nations. [foodstuffs]
Jones WO. 1959. Manioc in Africa. Stanford University Press. [food
use; cassava; 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.
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hunter-gatherers; Africa; Kung]
Laughlin C, Jr. 1978. Adaptation and Exchange in So: A Diachronic Study of
Deprivation. In Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. C Laughlin,
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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
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pregnancy; Africa]
Lee R. 1968. What Hunters Do for a Living, or How to Make out on Scarce
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[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]
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]
Mackintosh M. 1989. Gender, Class, and Rural Transition: Agribusiness and
the Food Crisis in Senegal. Zed Books. [hunger; gender relations;
development; agribusiness; Africa; Senegal]
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 African Food
Systems in Crisis. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, eds. Gordon and Breach. [hunger;
undernutrition; Africa; Sudan; Nubia]
McAlpin M. 1987. Famine Relief Policy in India: Six Lessons for Africa.
[famine; relief; government policy; South Asia; Africa]
Mellor JW, Gavian S. 1987. Famine: Causes, Prevention, and Relief. Science
235(4788):539-545. [food shortage; Africa]
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
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etc ); population density; hunger; Logoli; Gusii; Kipsigis; East Africa]
Netting R. 1986. Cultural Ecology. Waveland. [ecology; subsistance
systems; Africa (Kung San, East African Pastoralists); North America (Northwest
Coast Indians); Europe (Swiss)]
Nurse GT. 1975. Seasonal Hunger among the Ngoni and Ntumba of Central Malawi.
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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.
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Oguntona CRB, Razaq MA, Akintola TT. 1998. Pattern of Dietary Intake and
Consumption of Street Foods among Nigerian Students. Nutrition and Health
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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]
Oni G, Brown K. 1988. Force Feeding: A Traditional Feeding Practice of
Infants and Young Children in Kwara State Nigeria. In Toward More Efficacy in
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Nigeria]
Orwell S, Clayton D, Douglas AE. 1984. Infant Feeding in Nigeria. Ecology of
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Pankhurst R. 1966. The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892. Journal of the
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[famine; Ethiopia; Africa]
Paque C. 1984. Infant Salt Taboos in Morocco. Current Anthropology
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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;
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Quinn PJ. 1959. Food and Feeding Habits of the Pedi: With Special
Reference to Identification, Classification, Preparation and Nutritional Value.
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Richards A. 1939. Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. Lit
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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.
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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]
Shack D. 1969. Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the
Gurage of Ethiopia. Ethnology 8(3):292-300. [social relations; childrearing;
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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]
Shofield S. 1974. Seasonal Factors Affecting Nutrition in Different Age
Groups and Especially Pre-School Children. Journal of Development Studies
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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]
Simoons F. 1974. Rejection of Fish as Human Food in Africa: A Problem in
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Africa]
Sukkary-Stolba S. 1989. Indigenous Institutions and Adaptation to Famine: The
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East Africa]
Tripp 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]
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]
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]
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]