FOOD AND CULTURE
Nutritional diseases and eating disorders
Abate N, Chandalia M. 2001. Ethnicity and Type 2 Diabetes. Journal of Diabetes Complications 15:320-7. [disease]
Abdollahi
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Journal of Eating Disorders 30:259-68. [Middle East; North America; Iran;
Iranian Americans]
Banks CG. 1992. Culture in Culture-bound Syndromes: The Case of Anorexia Nervosa. Social Science and Medicine 34:867-84. [disordered eating]
Batur S, Kabakci E, Gulol C. 2003. Maladaptive eating attitudes of elite and amateur Turkish dancers: Are they at risk? Eating and Weight Disorders 8:263-7. [eating disorder; Europe; Turkey]
Becker
AE, Burwell RA, Navara K, Gillman SE. 2003. Binge Eating and Binge Eating
Disorder in a Small-scale, Indigenous Society: The View From Fiji. International
Journal of Eating Disorders 34:423-31. [eating disorder; Oceania; Fiji]
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Bediako SM, Kwate NO, Rucker R. 2004. Dietary Behavior among African Americans: Assessing Cultural Identity and Health Consciousness. Ethnicity and Disease 14:527-32. [eating habits; ethnic identity; North America; United States; African Americans]
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[history; women; fasting; appetite expression; eating disorder; anorexia;
Europe]![]()
Bemporad J. 1996. Self-starvation Through the Ages: Reflections on the Pre-history of Anorexia Nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders 19:217-37-. [history; eating disorder; anorexia nervosa]
Blum L, Pelto G, Pelto P. 2004. Coping With a Nutrient Deficiency: Cultural Models of Vitamin a Deficiency in Northern Nigeria. Medical Anthropology 23:195-227. [disease; nightblindness; xerophthalmia; medical beliefs; Africa; Hausa]
Bordo S. 1985. Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology As the Crystalization of Culture. The Philosophical Forum 17:73-105. [disordered eating]
Bourne LT, Lambert EV, Steyn K. 2002. Where does the black population of South Africa stand on the nutrition transition? Public Health Nutrition 5:157-62. [dietary change; disease; obesity; physical activity; hypertension;diabetes; Africa]
Brandes S. 1992. Maize As a Culinary Mystery. Ethnology 31:331-6. [malnutrition; pellagra; Europe]
Brenton B. 1998. Pellagra and Nutrition Policy: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine to the New South Africa. Nutritional Anthropology 22:1-11. [malnutrition; diet and disease; pellagra; Africa; Europe; South Africa; Mozambique; Malawi; Ireland]
Brown
A. 1988. Diet and Nutritional Stress. In The King Site: Continuity and
Contact in Sixteenth Century Georgia, ed. R Blakely. Athens: University of
Georgia Press. [history; diet and disease; North America; Georgia; Spanish
settlement]![]()
Brumberg JJ. 1990. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. New
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Burgess A, Dean RFA. 1962. Malnutrition and Food Habits. [nutritional disease; conference report]
Burghart R. 1996. The Cultural Context of Diet, Disease and the Body. In
Diet and Disease in Traditional and Developing Societies, ed. GA Harrison,
JC Waterlow, pp. 307-25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [nutritional
disease]![]()
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Caporael
L. 1976. Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? Science 192:21-6. [disease;
ergotism; history; witchcraft; North America; United States]
Carpenter KJ. 2000. Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a
Cause and a Cure. University of California Press. [nutritional disease]![]()
Cash TF. 2005. The Influence of Sociocultural Factors on Body Image: Searching for Constructs. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 12:438-42. [body image; eating pathology; psychological internalization; media; body dissatisfaction; eating disorder]
Cassidy C. 1982. Protein Energy Malnutrition As a Culture Bound Syndrome. Journal of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 6:325-45. [starvation; malnutrition]
Cederstrom T. 2000. Addressing the Immediate Causes of Malnutrition: The Positive Deviance Approach to Household Food Security. Nutritional Anthropology 22:10-14. [malnutrition; causes and cures; applied nutritional anthropolog]
Chakravarthy MV, Booth FW. 2004. Eating, exercise, and "thrifty" genotypes: connecting the dots toward an evolutionary understanding of modern chronic diseases. Journal of Applied Physiology 96:3-10. [chronic disease; human evolution; genotype]
Chernin K. 1981. The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness.
New York: Harper and Row. [body image; eating disorder; Western culture; North
America; United States]![]()
Chernin K. 1985. The Hungry Self: Women, Eating, and Identity. New
York: Time Books. [body image; eating disorder; Western culture; North America;
United States]![]()
Counihan CM. 1985. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female in the United States? Date of Input: 7/26/2004 1:77-94. [body image; disordered eating; women; North America; United States]
Counihan CM. 1999. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and
Power. New York: Routledge. [body image; gender; disordered eating]![]()
Crisp AH, Burns T. 1990. Primary Anorexia Nervosa in the Male and Female: A
Comparison of Clinical Features and Prognosis. In Males With Eating Disorders,
ed. A Anderson, pp. 77-99. New York: Bunner/Mazel. [disordered eating]![]()
Crittendon R, Baines J. 1986. Seasonal Factors Influencing Child Malnutrition on the Nembi Plateau. Human Ecology 14:191-223. [malnutrition; seasonal hunger; children; Oceania; New Guinea; Nembi]
Curry J. 1989. Occupation and Drought Vulnerability: Case Studies From a
Village in Niger. In African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One:
Microperspectives, ed. R Huss-Ashmore, S Katz, pp. 230-60-. New York: Gordon
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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]
Diamond J. 1987. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. Discover May. [prehistory; origin of agriculture; diet and disease]
Diamond J. 1999. Evolutionary Biology: Dirty Eating for Healthy Living. Nature 400:120-. [health and disease; geophagy; behavioral evolution]
Dirks
R. 1979. Relief Induced Agonism. Disasters 3:195-8. [seasonal hunger;
starvation; behavioral disease; social relations]
Dirks R. 1993. Famine and Disease. In The Cambridge World History of Human
Disease, ed. KF Kiple, pp. 157-63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[physiology; social relations; history]![]()
Dreyfuss M, Stoltzfus R, West K. 2000. Hookworms, Malaria, and Vitamin a Deficiency Contribute to Anemia and Iron Deficiency among Pregnant Women in the Plains of Nepal. Journal of Nutrition 130:2527-. [malnutrtion; disease; maternal nutrition; South Asia; Nepal]
Dunkley TL, Wertheim EH, Paxton SJ. 2001. Examination of a Model of Multiple Sociocultural Influences on Adolescent Girls' Body Dissatisfaction and Dietary Restraint. Adolescence 36:265-80. [body image; media; eating habits; disordered eating; North America]
E'Auili E, Mihalik GJ. 1977. Malnutrition: Its Effect on Psychological
Development and Cultural Evolution. In Malnutrition, Behavior, and Social
Organization, ed. LS Green, pp. 233-52. New York: Academic Press.
[malnutrition; psychological development; culture history]![]()
Elmes M. 2002. Earth-eating. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 95:274-. [diet and disease; geophagy]
Faer LM. 2005. The evolutionary psychology of eating disorders: Female competition for mates or for status? Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 78:397-417. [eating disorder; anorexia nervosa; bulimia; female competition]
Ferzacca S. 2004. Lived Food and Judgements of Taste at a Time of Disease. Medical Anthropology 23:41-67. [medical nutritional therapy; disease; type 2 diabetes; reseach method; life history]
Few M. 2005. Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52:673-87. [history; eighteenth century; beverage; women; ritual; conflict; magic; ceremonial power; Central America; Guatemala]
Fitchen JM. 1988. Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States: Some Observations on Their Social and Cultural Context. Food and Foodways 2:309-33. [undernutrition; malnutrition; North American; United States]
Forrester T. 2004. Historic and Early Life Origins of Hypertension in Africans. Journal of Nutrition 134:211-6. [cardovascular disease; salt intake; fetal programming; Africa]
Friedl J. 1981. Lactase Deficiency Distribution, Associated Problems, and Implications for Nutritional Policy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 11:37-48. [nutrition and health; milk; lactase; deficiency disease; nutrition policy]
Galanis DJ, McGarvey ST, Quested C, et al. 1999. Dietary Intake of Modernizing Samoans: Implications for Risk of Cardiovascular Disease. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 99:184-90. [modernization; dietary change; Oceania; American Samoa; Western Samoa]
Gilday K. 1994. The Famine Within. Santa Monica: Direct Cinema Limited. [body image; disordered eating; anorexia nervosa; North America]
Girard R. 1996. Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire. Contagion, Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 3:1-20. [body image; disordered eating]
Gittelsohn
J, Wolever T, Zinman B. 1998. Specific Patterns of Food Consumption and
Preparation Are Associated With Diabetes and Obesity in a Native Canadian
Community. The Journal of Nutrition 128. [nutrtional disease; North
American Indians; Canada]
Gordon R. 1990. Eating Disorders:Anatomy of a Social Epidemic.
Cambridge: Blackwell. [disease; anorexia nervosa; bulimia]![]()
Goto R. 2002. Poor intestinal permeability in mildly stunted Nepali children: associations with weaning practices and Giardia lamblia infection. British Journal of Nutrition 88:141-9. [ breastfeeding; lactose digestion; growth; malnutrition; malabsorption; disease; diarrhoea; South Asia; Nepal]
Greene L. 1977. Hyperendemic Goiter, Cretinism and Social Organization in
Highland Ecuador. In Malnutrition, Behavior, and Social Organization, ed.
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relations; South America; Ecuador]![]()
Greene L. 1980. Social and Biological Predictors of Physical Growth and Neurological Development in an Area Where Iodine and Protein-energy Malnutrition Are Endemic. In Social and Biological Predictors of Nutritional Status, ed. LS Greene, FE Johnston, pp. 223-56-. New York: Academic Press. [malnutrition; social relations; South America; Ecuador]
Greiner T, Latham M. 1981. Factors Associated With Malnutrition in the Children of Western Jamaica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 10:135-42. [nutritional disease; children; Caribbean; Jamaica]
Gunewardene A, Huon GF, Zheng R. 2001. Exposure to Westernization and Dieting: A Cross-cultural Study. The International Journal of Eating Disorders 29:289-. [culture change; eating disorders]
Hall RL. 1992. From Blackstrap Molasses to Smokeless Tobacco: A Chronicle of
Assaults on the Dental Health of Native Americans in the Northwest. In Health
and Lifestyle Change, ed. R Huss-Ashmore, J Schall, M Hediger. Philadelphia:
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[food habit change; diet and disease; North American Indians; Northwest Coast]![]()
Handler JS, Aufderheide AC, Corruccini RS. 1986. Lead Content and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves. Social Science History 10:399-425. [history; slave diet and disease; lead poisoning; Caribbean; Barbados]
Harris B. 1990. Food Distribution, Death and Disease in South Asia. In
Diet and Disease in Traditional and Developing Societies, ed. GA Harrison,
JC Waterlow, pp. 290-306. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [malnutrition;
South Asia]![]()
Harrison GA, Waterlow JC. 1990. Diet and Disease in Traditional and
Developing Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [diet and
disease; developing societies]![]()
Harrison GG. 1975. Primary Lactase Deficiency: A Problem in Anthropological Genetics. American Anthropologist 77:812-35. [milk; human evolution; diet and disease]
Hawk A. 2006. The Great Disease Enemy, Kakke (Beriberi) and the Imperial Japanese Army. Military Medicine 171:333-9(7). [history; diet and disease; East Asia]
Haworth-Hoeppner S. 2000. The Critical Shapes of Body Image: The Role of Culture and Family in the Production of Eating Disorders. Journal of Marriage and the Family 62:212-. [disordered eating]
Helweg-Larsen P. 1952. Famine Disease in German Concentration Camps, Complications and Sequels. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard. [starvation; Europe]
Herzog DB. 1985. Eating Disorders. New England Journal of Medicine 313:295-303. [disturbed behavior]
Howard
M. 1994. Socio-economic Causes and Cultural Explanations of Childhood
Malnutrition among the Chagga of Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine
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Howard M, Millard A. 1997. Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and
Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. New York: Routledge. [child malnutrition;
poverty; social relations; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga]![]()
Hunter J. 1973. Geophagy in Africa and the U S : A Culture-nutrition Hypothesis. Geography Review 1973:171-95. [disease; geophagy; dirt-eating; Africa; North America; United States]
Jelliffe D. 1957. Social and Cultural Nutrition: Cultural Blocks and Protein Malnutrition in Early Childhood in Rural West Bengal. Pediatrics 20:128-38. [food habits; malnutrition; children; South Asia; India]
Jenkins C. 1980. Geophagy in Fayette County, Tennessee: A Symbolic Interpretation. Tennessee Anthropologist 5:73-91. [disease; geophagy; symbolism; North America; United States]
Johns
T. 1991. Well-grounded Diet. The Sciences. [health and disease; dirt
eating; geophagy]
Joos S. 1984. Economic, Social, and Cultural Factors in the Analysis of
Disease: Dietary Change and Diabetes Mellitus among the Florida Seminole
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[dietary change; disease; diabetes mellitus; North American Indians; Florida;
Seminole]![]()
Katona-Apte J, Mokdad A. 1998. Malnutrition of Children in the Democratic People's Korea. The Journal of Nutrition 128:1315-. [malnutrition; children; East Asia; North Korea]
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Kehoe A, Gileti D. 1981. Women's Preponderance in Possession Cults: The Calcium-deficiency Hypothesis Extended. American Anthropologist 83:549-61. [malnutrition; deficiency disease; calcium; religion; possession cults]
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Kilbourne J. 1994. Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising and the Obsession With Thinness. In Feminist Perspectices on Eating Disorders, ed. P Fallon, MA Katz, SC Wooley, pp. 395-418-. New York: Guildford. [body image; eating attitudes; disordered eating; advertising and food choice; North America]
Knowler WC, Pettitt DC, Bennett PH, Williams RC. 1981. Diabetes Incidence among the Pima Indians. American Journal of Epidemiology 113:144-56. [obesity; human evolution; genetic disease; diabetes mellitus]
Knowler WC, Pettitt DC, Bennett PH, Williams RC. 1983. Diabetes Incidence among the Pima Indians: Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113:144-56. [disease; diabetes; physical anthropology; North American Indians; Pima]
Knowler WC, Pettitt DC, Bennett PH, Williams RC. 1983. Diabetes Mellitus in the Pima Indians: Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1983:107-14. [human evolution; genetic disease; obesity; diabetes mellitus]
Koo LC. 1984. Use of Food to Treat and Prevent Disease in Chinese Culture. Social Science and Medicine 18:757-66. [food, health, disease; East Asia; China]
Kosulwat V. 2002. The nutrition and health transition in Thailand. Public Health Nutrition 5:183-9. [dietary change; disease; Southeast Asia]
Lackey C. 1978. Pica -- a Nutritional Anthropology Concern. In
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Lake AJ, Staiger PK, Glowinski H. 2000. The Effects of Western Culture on Women's Attitudes to Eating and Perceptions of Body Shape. The International Journal of Eating Disorders 27:83-. [attitudes towards eating; body image]
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Landy D. 1985. Publoktog (hysteria) and Inuit Nutrition: Possible Implications of Hypervitaminosis a. Social Science and Medicine 21:173-85. [malnutrition; disease; hysteria; North America; Inuit (Eskimo)]
Lang G. 1989. "Making Sense" About Diabetes: Dakota Naratives of Illness. Medical Anthropology 11:305-27. [diet and disease; diabetes; North American Indian; Dakota]
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Liberman
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anthropology; cardiovascular disease; type 2 diabetes; metabolic syndrome]
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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]
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quality and health status of expectant mothers: case studies
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Scrimshaw N, Cosminsky S. 1991. The Impact of Health on Women's Food
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