FOOD AND CULTURE

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Famine, Hunger, Starvation

Alamgir M (1980) Famine in South Asia: Political Economy of Mass Starvation [disaster].

Alamgir M (1981) An Approach toward a Theory of Famine. in JRK Robson (ed) Famine: Its Causes, Effects and Management. Gordon and Breach, pp. 19-40 [mass starvation].

Arnold D (1988) Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change. Blackwell [history; food shortage].

Aykroyd WR (1975) The Conquest of Famine [history, disaster; case studies].

Barrett D; Frank D (1987) The Effects of Undernutrition on Children's Behavior. Gordon and Breach [starvation; children].

Recommended -- click for detailsBearak B (2003) Why People Still Starve New York Times Magazine, pp. 32-52 [famine; seasonal hunger; economic causes; Africa; Malawi].

Becker J (1999) Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. Henry Holt [disaster; East Asia; China].

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

Binyan L (1993) An Unnatural Disaster. New York Review of Books. XI:3-6 [cannibalism; famine; East Asia; China; cultural revolution].

Bishop C (1975) Northern Algonkian Cannibalism and Windigo Psychosis. in T Williams (ed) Psychological Anthropology [famine; cannibalism; windigo; North American Indians; Algonkian].

Bishop C (1978) Cultural and Biological Adaptations to Deprivation: The Northern Ojibwa Case. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 208-230 [famine; starvation; social relations; North American Indians; Ojibwa].

Blix G (1971) Famine: A Symposium Dealing with Nutrition and Relief Operations in Times of Disaster. Almqvist and Wiksells [disaster; relief].

Bongaarts J; Cain M (1981) Demographic Responses to Famine. The Population Council [mass starvation].

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

Burger GCE; Drummond JC; Sandstead HR (1948) Malnutrition and Starvation in Western Netherlands, September 1944 -- July 1945. General State Printing Office [famine; Europe; Netherlands].

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. 27:377-475 [food shortage;insecurity; Africa; Kenya].

Caplan P (1992) Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought. Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology (inaugural lecture, Goldsmith's College, 1992) [feasting; fasting; mass starvation].

Carlin M; Rosenthal JT (1998) Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. Hambleton Press [collected essays; history; feasts; famine; food habits; Europe].

Carr LG (1943) Survival Foods of the American Aborigine. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 19:845-847 [famine; food habits; North American Indians].

Cassidy C (1982) Protein Energy Malnutrition as a Culture Bound Syndrome. Journal of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 6:325-345 [starvation; malnutrition].

Cawte J (1978) Gross Stress in Small Islands: A Study in Macro-Psychiatry. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 95-121 [famine; social relations; Oceania; Australian Aborigines].

Chatwin ME (1997) Socio-Cultural Transformation and Foodways in the Republic of Georgia. Nova Science [famine; history; barter; Europe].

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].

Cohen MN (1977) The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. Yale University Press [prehistory; origins of agriculture; population; starvation; famine].

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].

Commission aI (1945) Report on Bengal. Government of India Press [mass starvation; India; Bengal].

Chilling History -- click for detailsConnell KH (1955) Marriage in Ireland after the Famine. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. 19:82-103 [mass starvation; social relations; Europe; Ireland].

Conquest R (1986) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. Oxford University Press [history; mass starvation; political causes; Europe; Ukraine; Russia].

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].

Cox G (1978) Famine Symposium--the Ecology of Famine: An Overview. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 6:207-220 [disaster; food system].

Extraordinary Scholarship -- click for detailsCurrey B (1980) Famine in the Pacific: Losing the Chances for Change. Geojournal 4:447-466 [hunger; history; geography; Oceania].

Dando W (1980) The Geography of Famine [disaster, mass starvation, history].

Dasgupta P (1993) An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press [hunger; famine; economy; physiology of starvation].

Davis M (2001) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso [history; famine].

de Garine I (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].

de Garine I; de Garine GA (1988) Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply [food shortage; insecurity; famine; collected papers].

Devereux S (1993) Theories of Famine: From Malthus to Sen. Harvester Wheatsheaf [mass starvation].

Dirks R (1979) Relief Induced Agonism. Disasters. 3:195-198 [seasonal hunger; starvation; behavioral disease; social relations].

Dirks R (1980) Social Responses During Severe Food Shortage and Famine. Current Anthropology. 21:21-44 [starvation; social relations].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsDirks 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 (1993) Starvation and Famine among Societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Cross-cultural Research. 27:28-69 [starvation; cross-cultural patterns].

Dirks R (1994) Hunger and Famine. in C Ember; M Ember (eds) Research Frontiers in Anthropology. Prentice Hall [undernutrition; mass starvation; cross-cultural patterns].

Dirks R (1994) Starvation and Famine among Sccs Societies. World Cultures. Vol 8:35-45 [starvation; cross-cultural patterns].

Dirks R (1999) Political Rights and Famine. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia (ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional. La Val de Onsera, pp. 711-728 [mass starvation, political relations].

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].

Ea M (1984) War and Famine: The Example of Kampuchea. in B Currey; G Hugo (eds) Famine as a Geographical Phenomenon, pp. 33-47 [mass starvation; Southeast Asia; Kampuchea].

Recommended -- click for detailsEmber CR; Ember M (1992) Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 36:246-262 [effects of famine; food insecurity; mistrust; war].

Fagan B (1998) Floods, Famines, and Emporers: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations. Basic Books [nutritional disasters; prehistory and history of civilization].

Favaro A; Rodella FC; Santonastasco P (2000) Binge Eating and Eating Attitudes among Nazi Concentration Camp Survivors. Psychological Medicine. 30:463- [starvation; appetite expression].

Firth R (1959) Social Change in Tikopia. Macmillan [famine; behavioral effects; social relations; Oceania; Polynesia; Tikopia].

Franke R; Chasin B (1980) Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel. Osmun Recommended -- click for detailsPublishers [mass starvation; ecology; Africa; Western Sahel].

Frankova S (1977) Starvation and Behavior. Progress in Food and Nutritional Science. 2:323-331 [effects of starvation].

Garnsey P (1988) Famine and Food Supply in the Greaco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis. Cambridge University Press [history; starvation; causes; social and political responses; Europe; Greece; Rome].

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

Golkin A (1987) Famine: A Heritage of Hunger: A Guide to Issues and References. Regina Books [mass starvation; relief; case studies; bibliography of famine studies].

Greenough P (1982) Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal [famine; South Asia; India; Bengal].

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].

Hassig R (1981) The Famine of One Rabbit: Ecological Causes and Social Consequences of a Pre-Columbian Calamity. Journal of Anthropological Research. 37:172-182 [disaster; mass starvation; economic effects; agricultural intensification; Mexico; Aztec????].

Helweg-Larsen P (1952) Famine Disease in German Concentration Camps, Complications and Sequels. Ejnar Munksgaard [starvation; Europe].

Holmberg A (1950) Nomads of the Long Bow [food shortage; hunger; social relations; South American Indians; Siriono].

An Informative Collection -- click for detailsHugo G (1984) The Demographic Impact of Famine. in B Currey; G Hugo (eds) Famine as a Geographic Phenomenon, pp. 7-31 [mass starvation].

Huss-Ashmore R; Johnston SL (1997) Wild Plants as Famine Foods: Food Choice under Conditions of Scarcity. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 83-100 [food shortage; choice].

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].

Recommended -- click for detailsHuss-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].

Jordan WC (1996) The Great Famine: Norther Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century [history; food shortage; Europe].

Kelleher M (1997) The Feminization of Famine: Representations of Women in Famine Naratives. Duke University Press [images and symbols; famine; gender; history; Europe; South Asia; Ireland; India; Bengal].

Keys A (1950) The Biology of Human Starvation 2 Vols. University of Minnesota Press [famine; starvation].

Kinealy C (1995) This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52. Gill and Macmillan [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Kulkarni SN (1990) Famines, Droughts, and Scarcities in India. South Asia Books [famine; South Asia].

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].

Li L (1982) Introduction: Food, Famine and the Chinese State. Journal of Asian Studies. 41:687-707 [famine; East Asia; China].

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].

Masefield GB (1963) Famine: Its Prevention and Relief. Oxford University Press [famine; prevention; relief].

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. 235:539-545 [food shortage; Africa].

Murton B (2000) Famine. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1411-1427 [famine; history; causes; responses; prevention; relief].

Newman L; Crossgrove W; Kates R (1990) Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation. Blackwell [collected papers; prehistory; origins of agriculture; change; malnutrition; famine].

Nicol B (1971) Causes of Famine in the Past and in the Future. in G Blix (ed) Famine: A Symposium Dealing with Nutrition and Relief Operations. Almqvist and Wiksells, pp. 10-14 [famine--causes].

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

O'Grada C (1989) The Great Irish Famine. MacMillan [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Pankhurst R (1966) The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences. 21:95-124, 271-94- [famine; Ethiopia; Africa].

Patnaik U (1991) Food Availability and Famine: A Longer View. Journal of Peasant Studies. 19 [famine; South Asia; India; Bengal].

Peerson MS; Love J; Achterberg C, et al. (2001) Food Insecurity Is Positively Related to Overweight in Women. Journal of Nutrition. 131:1738-1745 [overweight; hunger; food shortage].

Poirteir C (1995) The Great Irish Famine. Mercier [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Prindle P (1979) Peasant Society and Famine: A Nepalese Example. Ethnology. 18:49-60 [famine; social relations; South Asia; Nepal].

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

Robson J (1987) Famine: Its Causes, Effects and Management [famine--causes, effects, intervention; collected papers].

Ross E (1986) Potatoes, Population, and the Irish Famine: The Political Economy of Demographic Change. in WP Handwerker (ed) Culture Recommended -- click for detailsand Reproduction: An Anthropological Critique of Demographic Transition Theory. Westview, pp. 196-220 [famine; potato; human ecology; food system; Europe; Ireland].

Scally RJ (1995) The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration. Oxford University Press [history; disaster; Europe].

Schneider DM (1957) Typhoons on Yap. Human Organization. 16:10-15 [starvation; disaster response; social relations; Oceania; Micronesia; Yap].

Scrimshaw N (1987) The Phenomenon of Famine. Annual Review of Nutrition. 7:1-21 [famine; starvation].

Seaton R (1962) Hunger in Groups: An Arctic Experiment. Quartermaster Food and Container Institute, United States Army [starvation; behavior; social relations].

Seavoy R (1986) Famine in Peasant Societies. Greenwood Press [famine; economics; peasant societies; case studies].

Sen A (1981) Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Oxford University Press [famine; economics; poverty].

Sen A (1993) The Economics of Life and Death. Scientific American. 268:40-47 [famine; economy; mortality data; health].

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

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

Sorokin P (1975) Hunger as a Factor in Human Affairs. The University Presses of Florida [hunger; famine; history; sociology].

Stansbury JP; Barrios RE; Rojas C, et al. (2000) After the Hurricane: Child Nutrition in Honduran Reconstruction. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:3-7 [child nutrition, malnutrition; disaster; Central America; Honduras].

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].

Taylor CE (1983) Synergy among Mass Infections, Famines and Mortality. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14 [famine; disease].

Great but Controversial Ethnography -- click for detailsTilly LA (1983) Food Entitlement, Famine, and Conflict. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14:333-349 [history; famine; social relations; Europe; England; France].

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].

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

Watts D (1984) Cycles of Famine in Islands of Plenty: The Case of the Colonial West Indies in the Pre-Emancipation Period. in B Currey; G Hugo (eds) Famine as a Geographic Phenomenon, pp. 49-70 [famine; history; Caribbean].

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].

Recommended -- click for detailsWebb 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].

Woodham-Smith C (1962) The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

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

Young M (1971) Fighting with Food [social relations; famine; seasonal hunger; conflict; fighting with food; appetite expression; Oceania; New Guinea; Goodenough Island].

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