FOOD AND CULTURE

Classification of Foods: linguistic categories, folk taxonomies, scientific typologies

Anderson EN (1987) Why Is Humoral Medicine So Popular? Social Science and Medicine. 15:133-145 [folk classification; food and medicine].

beaten corn for making cachupa rica, a dish regarded as "rich families' food" in the Cape Verde Islands (caboverde.com)Axelson ML; Brinberg D (1989) A Social-Psychological Perspective on Food-Related Behavior [choice; classification; psychology; methods].

Behrens C (1986) Shipibo Food Categorization and Preference: Relationships between Indigenous and Western Dietary Concepts. American Anthropologist. 88:647-657 [classification of foods; preferences; South American Indians; Peru; Shipibo].

Chau P; Lee H; Tseng R, et al. (1990) Deitary Habits, Health Beliefs, and Food Practices of Elderly Chinese Women. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 90:579-580 [foodways; categories; United States; San Francisco area; Chinese Americans].

Currier RL (1966) The Hot-Cold Syndrome and Symbolic Balance in Mexican and Spanish American Folk Medicine. Ethnology. 5:251-263 [folk classification; medicine; Mexico; Central America].Fun Classic -- Click for details

Dournes J (1977) Time and Menu. in J Kuper (ed) The Anthropologists Cookbook. Universe Books, pp. 161-164 [folk classification; structure; mealtimes; table manners; Southeast Asia; Vietnam; Jorai].

Foster G (1953) Relationships between Spanish and Spanish-American Folk Medicine. Journal of American Folklore. 66:210-217 [classification; medicine; Europe; Latin America; Spain].

Foster G (1984) The Concept of Neutral in Humoral Medical Systems. Medical Anthropology. 8:180-194 [folk classification; medical; Latin America].

Foster G (1987) On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 1:355-393 [folk classification; folk medicine; history; Latin America].

Hertzler A; Standal B (1980) Classifying Cultural Food Habits and Meanings. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 82:421-425 [classification of foods; food habits; symbolic meanings; preference, selection and taste].

Hertzler A; Wenkan N; Standal B (1991) Classifying Cultural Food Habits and Their Meanings. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 82:421-425 [classification; meaning].

Jelliffe D (1967) Parallel Food Classification in Developing and Industrial Countries. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 20:279-281 [symbolism; scientific classification; cross-cultural].

Lander H (1964) Seven Navaho Verbs of Eating. International Journal of American Linguistics. 30:94-98 [classification; language; North America; North American Indians; Navaho].Lucid Discussion, Important Ideas -- click for details

Laudan R (2000) Birth of the Modern Diet. Scientific American. 283:76-81 [history; symbolic meaning; classification of foods; Europe].

Leach E (1970) Claude Levi-Strauss. Viking [classification of foods; structural theory and analysis; Claude Levi-Strauss].

Lehrer A (1969) Semantic Cuisine. Journal of Linguistics. 5:39-56 [linguistic categories; comparative taxonomies of cooking methods].

Lehrer A (1972) Cooking Vocabularies and the Culinary Triangle of Levi-Strauss. Anthropological Linguistics. 14:155-171 [language; folk classification; cookery; structural theory].

Lehrer A (1975) Talking About Wine. Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. 51:901-923 [lexicology; foodstuff; classification].

Lehrer A (1990) As American as Apple Pie -- and Sushi and Bagles: The Semiotics of Food and Drink. in T Sebeok; J Umiker-Sebeok; EP Young (eds) Recent Developments in Theory and History: The Semiotic Web. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 389-401 [food names; lexicology; categories].

Lehrer A (1992) Wine Vocabulary and Wine Description. Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. 18:13-15 [foodstuff; terminology; classification].

Ludman E; Newman J (1984) Yin and Yang in the Health-Related Food Practices of Three Chinese Groups. Journal of Nutritional Education. 16:3-5 [food classification; health and disease; East Asia; China].

Manderson L (1986) Food Classification and Restriction in Peninsular Malaysia: Nature, Culture, Hot and Cold? in L Manderson (ed) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press [food classification; Southeast Asia; Malaysia].

Mathews H (1983) Context-Specific Variation in Humoral Classification. American Anthropologist. 85:826-847 [food classification; humoral (hot-cold) system; North America; Mexico]].

Mazess RB (1968) Hot-Cold Food Beliefs among Andean Peasants. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 53:109-113 [food classification; hot-cold system; South America; Andes].

Messer E (1981) Hot-Cold Classification: Theoretical and Practical Implications of a Mexican Study. Social Science Medicine. 15 B:133-145 [classification; hot-cold; Mexico].

Messer E (1987) The Hot and Cold in Mesoamerican Indigenous and Hispanicized Thought. Social Science and Medicine. 25:346-399 [food classification; hot and cold categories; Central America; Mexico; Europe].

Nichter M (1985) Cultural Interpretations of the States of Malnutrition among Children: A South Indian Case Study. Medical Anthropology. winter:25-48 [malnutrition; folk classification and meaning; South Asia; India].

Nichter M (1986) Modes of Food Classification and the Diet -- Health Contingency: A South Indian Case Study. in RS Khare (ed) Food, Society and Culture, pp. 185-220- [food classification; health; South Asia; India].

Nichter M; Nichter M (1983) The Ethnophysiology and Folk Dietetics of Pregnancy: A Case Study from South India. Human Organization. 42:235-246 [folk knowledge; folk dietetics; classification; maternal nutrition; pregnancy; South Asia; India].

Pollock NJ (1985) The Concept of Food in Pacific Society: A Fijian Example. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 17:195-203 [food classification; Oceania; Fiji].

Pollock NJ (1986) Food Classification in Three Pacific Societies: Fiji, Hawaii and Tahiti. Ethnology. 25:107-117 [food categories; Oceania].

Pollock NJ (1992) These Roots Remain: Food Habits in Islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific since Western Contact. Institute for Polynesian Studies [food categories; change; Oceania; Micronesia; Polynesia].

Reichel-Dolmatoff G (1979) Desana Animal Categories, Food Restrictions and the Concept of Color Energies. Journal of Latin American Folklore. 4:243-291 [categories; taboo; symbolic meaning; South America; Columbia; Desana].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsRizvi N (1986) Food Categories in Bangladesh and Its Relationship to Food Beliefs and the Practices of Vulnerable Groups. in S Khare; M Rao (eds) Food, Society and Culture. Durham: Carolina Academic Press [classification; food categories; beliefs; South Asia].

Rozin P (2000) The Psychology of Food Choice. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1476-1486 [categories; preferences; selection; neophobia; disgust].

Rozin P; Fallon AE (1980) The Psychological Categorization of Foods and Non-Foods: A Preliminary Taxonomy of Food Rejections. Appetite. 1:193-201- [psychological categories; taste and preference; food avoidance].

Sukkary-Stolba S (1987) Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt. Social Science and Medicine. 25:401-404 [food categories; infant & child nutrition; Middle East; Egypt].

Trankell IB (1995) Cooking, Care, and Domestication: A Culinary Ethnography of the Tai Yong, Northern Thailand. Uppsala University Press [food categories; processing; gender relations; ritual and meaing; Southeast Asia].

Wandel M (1977) Heaty and Cooling Foods in Relation to Food Habits in a Southern Sri Lankan Community. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:93-104 [classification; hot-cold dichotamy; South Asia; Sri Lanka].

Wassmann J (1993) When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: The Classification of Food among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea. Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. 15:30-40 [food categories; Oceania].

Watson JB (1943) How the Hopi Classify Their Food. Plateau. 15:49-52 [folk classification; North American Indian; Hopi].

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