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FOOD AND CULTURE

Meat-eating and Vegetarianism

Abrams HL. 1987. The Preference for Animal Protein and Fat. IN Food and Evolution. M Harris, E Ross (editors). 207-223. Temple University Press. [preference; meat; fat]

Abrams HL. 1980. Vegetarianism: An Anthropological / Nutritional Evaluation. Journal of Applied Nutrition. 12:53-87. [nutritional value; vegetarianism]

Abrams HL. 2000. Vegetarianism: Another View. IN The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas (editors). 1564-1571. Cambridge University Press. [vegetarianism and health; primate diets; hunter gatherers; importance of meat in nutrition]

Abrams HL. 1986. Fire and Cooking As a Major Influence on Human Cultural Advancement. Journal of Applied Nutrition. 38:24-29. [meat and vegetables in diet; human evolution]

Beardsworth A, Keil T. 1992. The Vegetarian Option -- Varieties, Conversions, Motives and Careers. Sociological Review. 40:253-293. [vegetarians; North America; United States]

Black KW, Glasgow M. 1981. Social Networks and Psychological Conditions in Diet Preferences: Gormets and Vegetarians. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 2:1-9. [social relations; eating attitudes; vegetarians]

Bwibo NO, Neumann CG. 2003. The Need for Animal Source Foods By Kenyan Children. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3936S-3940S. [child nutrition; malnutrition; meat eating; Africa; Kenya]

Delgado CL. 2003. Rising Consumption of Meat and Milk in Developing Countries Has Created a New Food Revolution. Journal of Nutrition. 113:3907S-3910S. [change; nutritional transition; meating eating]

Dwyer JT. 1974. The New Vegetarians: The Natural High? Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 65:529-536. [social relations; vegetarian; taboo; North America; United States]

Dwyer JT. 1974. The New Vegetarians: Group Affiliation and Dietary Strictures Related to Attitudes and Life Style". Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 64:376-382. [social relations; vegetarian; taboo; North America; United States]

(© Dinu Lazar)Fiddes N. 1992. Meat: A Natural Symbol. Routledge. [meat; symbolism]

Fiddes N. 1994. Social aspects of meat eating. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 53(2):271-279. [symbolic meaning; cultural importance of meat]

Gade DW. 1976. Horsemeat As Human Food in France. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 5:1-11. [food use, horsemeat; Europe; France]

Gittelsohn J, Vastine AE. 2003. Sociocultural and Household Factors Impacting on the Selection, Allocation and Consumption of Animal Source Foods: Current Knowledge and Application. Journal of Nutrition. 133:4036S-4041S. [food choice; proscriptions; meat eating; mother & child nutrition]

Hamilton W. 1987. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat. IN Food and Evolution. M Harris, E Ross (editors). 117-132. Temple University Press. [non-human primates; evolution, food preference; meat]

Harding RO. 1973. Predation By a Troop of Olive Baboons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 38:587-592. [non-human primates; meat eating; baboon]

Memorable Classic -- click for detailsHarris M. 1985. The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture. Simon and Schuster. [taboos; materialist theory; ecology; cannibalism; meat eating]

Harris M. 1998. Good to Eat. Waveland. [materialist theory; taboos; ecology; food system; meat eating; cannibalism]

Harris M, Ross E. 1978. How Beef Became King. Psychology Today. 12:88-94. [meat eating; food use, beef; North America; United States]

Henneberg M, Sarafis V, Mathers K. 1998. Human Adaptation to Meat Eating. Human Evolution. 13:229 [evolution; meat eating]

Johns T. 1990. With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine. University of Arizona. [evolution; diet; plant (vegetarian) species]

Key T.J. 2006. Health Effects of Vegetarian and Vegan Diets. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 65:35-41(37). [vegetarian; vegan; health]

Kim E, Schroeder K, Dwyer J. 1999. Two Small Surveys, 25 Years Apart, Investigating Motivations of Dietary Choice in 2 Groups of Vegetarians in the Boston Area. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:598 [food choice; vegetarian diet; North America; United States; Boston]

(© Dinu Lazar)Larsen CS. 2003. Animal Source Foods and Human Health During Evolution. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3893S-3897S. [meat eating; physical anthropology]

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]

Mann N. 2000. Dietary Lean Red Meat and Human Evolution. European Journal of Nutrition. 39:71-79. [meat eating; behavioralImportant Collection evolution]

McDonaugh C. 1997. Breaking the Rules: Changes in Food Acceptability among the Tharu of Nepal. IN Food Preferences and Taste. H Macbeth (editor). 155-166. Berghahn. [change; social relations; food use -- buffalo meat; South Asia]

Messer E. 1977. The Ecology of a Vegetarian Diet in a Modernizing Mexican Community. IN Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. TK Fitzgerald (editor). [ecology; vegetarian; Mexico]

Milton K. 2003. The Critical Role Played By Animal Source Foods in Human (homo) Evolution. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3893S-3897S. [meat eating; paleoanthropology]

Milton K. 1999. A Hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat-eating in Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology. 8:11 [evolution; Recommended -- click for detailsmeat eating]

Murphy SP, Allen LH. 2003. Nutritional Importance of Animal Source Foods. Journal of Nutrition. 133:3932S-3935S. [meat eating]

Nestle M. 1999. Animal V. Plant Foods in Human Diets and Health: Is the Historical Record Unequivocal? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 58:211-218. [optimal diets; meat eating; paleolithic diet; dietary recommendations]

Peterson D. 2003. Eating Apes. University of California Press. [meat eating; food use, 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]

(© )Pliner P, Pelchat M. 1991. Neophobia in Humans and the Special Status of Foods of Animal Origin. Appetite. 16:205-218. [meat eating; psychology of preference]

Pyke M. 1978. The Evolution of Animal Protein in the Human Diet. IN New Protein Foods. Vol. 5 Seed Storage Proteins. AM Altshul, HL Wilcke (editors). 47-57. Academic Press. [meat eating; evolution; history; prehistory]

Rifkin J. 1992. Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of Cattle Culture. New York. [food use, meat; beef; North America

Rose L, Marshall F. 1996. Meat Eating, Hominid Sociality, and Home Bases Revisited. Current Anthropology. 37:307-338. [evolution; meat eating]

Roth L.K. 2005. "Beef. It's What's for Dinner": Vegetarians, Meat-Eaters and the Negotiation of Familial Relationships. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 8:181-200(120). [vegetarianism; social effect; family; conflict]

Rozin P, Markwith M, Stoess C. 1997. Moralization and Becoming a Vegetarian: The Transformation of Preferences Into Values and the Recruitment of Disgust. Psychological Science. 8:67-73. [vegetarian; preference; taboo]

Sarri K.O. 2005. Is Religious Fasting Related to Iron Status in Greek Orthodox Christians? British Journal of Nutrition 94:198-203. [iron status; deficiency; fasting; vegetarian diet; Europe; Orthodox Christians]

Simoons F. 1978. Traditonal Use and Avoidance of Foods of Animal Origin: A Culture-historical View. Bioscience. 28:178-184. [taboo; meat]

Singh K. 1996. Fried Chicken's Fearsome Foes. Far Eastern Economic Review. 159:30 [change; Kentucky Fried Chicken; vegetarianism; South Asia; India]

Recommended -- click for detailsSpencer C. 1993. The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism. [history; vegetarian diet]

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Spiering M. 2006. Food, Phagophobia and English National Identity. European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics 22:31-48. [history; imagry; meating eating; beef consumption; Europe]

Stanford C. 1999. The Hunting Ape: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Princeton University Press. [meat eating; behavior evolution; non-human primates]

Stefansson V. 1960. Food and Food Habits in Alaska and Northern Canada. IN Human Nutrition Historic and Scientific. I Galdston (editor). 23-60 [food habits; dietary patterns; meat; fat; North America; Alaska; Canada; Inuit (Eskimo)]

Stefansson V. 1937. Food of the Ancient and Modern Stone Age Man. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 13:102-129. [diet; meat eating; cooking practices; Arctic; North America; Inuit]

Tambiah SJ. 1969. Animals Are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit. Ethnology. 5:423-459. [food taboos; meat eating]

Teleki G. 1973. The Omnivorous Chimpanzee. Scientific American. 228:32-42. [non-human primates; meat eating; chimpanzee]

Whorton JC. 2000. Vegetarianism. IN The Cambridge History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas (editors). 1553-1564. Cambridge University Press. [history; vegetarianism in America; animal rights]

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