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Nutritional Anthropology and Field Research Methods

 

Allport S (2003) The Skinny on Fat. Gastronomica. 3:28-36 [nutritional anthropology; dietary fat; types of fat].

Bagchi T (1994) Profile of Some Indian Tribes: An Anthropo-Nutritional Micro Study. Punthi Pustak [nutritional anthropology; dietary deficiencies; intake patterns; South Asia; India].

Berdanier C (2000) Nutrient-Gene Interactions. Nutrition Today. 35:8- [nutritional anthropology; human evolution; nutrition and health].

Indispensible Reference Book -- click for detailsCassidy CM (1994) Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Culturally Sensitive Food-Habit Research. Amercian Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 59:190s-197s [nutritional anthropology; research methods; North America; United States].

Cohen MN (2000) History, Diet, and Hunter-Gatherers. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-71 [history; nutritional anthropology; diet and disease; food collecters].

Highly Recommended -- click for detailsCrooks D (1999) Understanding Children's Nutritional Status: Combining Anthropological Approaches in Poverty Research. Nutritional Anthropology. 22:1-4 [nutritional anthropology; child nutrition; North America; United States].

Dettwyler K (1993) Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Waveland [nutritional anthropology; childhood nutrition; nutritional status; ethnography; Africa; Mali; Bambara].

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].

Fitzgerald T (1976) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. van Gorcum [miscellaneous papers; nutritional anthropology; method; application; case studies].

Freedman RL (1977) Nutritional Anthropology: An Overview. in T Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. van Gorcum, pp. 1-23 [nutritional anthropology].

Recommended -- click for detailsFrisancho AR (1978) Nutritional Influences on Human Growth and Maturation. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 21:171-191 [physical anthropology; nutritional anthropology; growth and development].

Garine I de; de Garine V de (2001) Drinking: Anthropological Approaches. Berghahn Books [collected essays; beverage use; nutritional anthropology].

Goldman A (2000) Symposium: Bioactivity in Milk and Bacterial Interactions in the Developing Immature Intestine -- Modulation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Infants by Human Milk. Journal of Nutrition. 130:4263- [foodstuff; human milk; child nutrition; human evolution; nutritional anthropology].

Goode J (1989) Cultural Patterning and Group-Shared Rules in the Study of Food Intake. in GH Pelto; PJ Pelto; E Messer (eds) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. United Nations University, pp. 126-161 [nutritional anthropology; method].

Goodman AH; Dufour D; Pelto G (1999) Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Mayfield [collected essays; nutritional anthropology].

Grivetti LE (1981) Cultural Nutrition: Anthropological and Geographical Themes. Annual Review of Nutrition. 1:47-68 [cultural nutrition (nutritional anthropology); general survey; theoretical perspectives].

Grivetti LE; Pangborn RM (1973) Food Habit Research: A Review of Approaches and Methods. Journal of Nutritional Education. 5(3):204-7 [theoretical perspectives; nutritional anthropology; research methods].

Gryboski K (1995) The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Field-Based Nutritional Research. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 62:(1):153-4 [nutritional anthropology; field research; methods].

Harris B (2000) Height and Nutrition. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1427-1438 [nutritional anthropology].

Hass JD; Harrison, GG (1977) Nutritional Anthropology and Biological Adaptation. Annual Review of Anthropology. 6:69-101 [nutritional anthropology; adaptation].

Himmelgreen DA (2002) "You Are What You Eat and You Eat What You Are:" The Role of Nutritional Anthropology in Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition Education. Nutritional Anthropology. 25:2-12 [nutritional anthropology; theory; practice].

Jerome N (1979) Medical Anthropology and Nutrition. Medical Anthropology. 3:339-352 [nutritional anthropology].

Jerome NW (1981) The US Dietary Pattern from an Anthropological Perspective. Food Tech. 35:37-42 [nutritional anthropology; method and theory; North America; United States].

Jerome NW; Kandel RF; Pelto GH (1980) An Ecological Approach to Nutritional Anthropology. in NW Jerome; RF Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) In Nutritional Anthropology. Pleasantville: Redgrave Press, pp. 13-45 [nutritional anthropology; ecology].

Jerome NW; Kandel RF; Pelto GH (1980) Methodological Issues. in NW Jerome; RF Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) Nutritional Anthropology. Pleasantville: Redgrave, pp. 47-59 [nutritional anthropology; methods].

Jerome NW; Kandel RF; Pelto GH (1980) Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture. Redgrave [nutritional Essential Reference -- click for detailsanthropology; collected papers].

Johnston FE (1987) Nutritional Anthropology. Alan R Liss [nutritional anthropology; collected papers].

Kennedy E; Haddad L (2000) The Nutrition of Women in the Developing World. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1439-1443 [nutritional anthropology; maternal, infant nutrition; household relations].

Kuhnlein HV (1989) Culture and Ecology in Dietetics and Nutrition. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 89:1059-1060 [general survey; ecology; nutritional anthropology].

Lieberman LS (2002) Personal Perspectives and Contemporary Trends in Nutritional Anthropology. Appetite. 38:77-78 [nutritional anthropology; college courses].

Lindenbaum S (1977) The Last Course: Nutrition and Anthropology in Asia. in TK Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. Redgrave [nutritional anthropology; Asia].

Mead M (1943) Dietary Patterns and Food Habits. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 19:1-5 [nutritional anthropology].

Mead M (1943) The Factor of Food Habits. Annals of the American Academy of Political Science. 225:136-141 [nutritional anthropology].

Mead M (1945) Manual for the Study of Food Habits: Report of the Committee on Food Habits. National Academy of Sciences [nutritional anthropology; food habits; North America; United States].

Mead M (1964) Food Habits Research: Problems of the 1960's. National Research Council [nutritional anthropology].

Messer E (1984) Sociocultural Aspects of Nutrient Intake and Behavioral Responses to Nutrition. in J Galler (ed) Nutrition and Behavior [general survey; theoretical perspectives; nutritional anthropology].

Messer E (1989) Methods for Studying Determinants of Food Intake. in GH Pelto; PJ Pelto; E Messer (eds) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. United Nations University, pp. 1-33 [nutritional anthropology; research methods; diet].

Messer E (1989) The Relevance of Time-Allocation Analyses for Nutritional Anthropology. in GH Pelto; PJ Pelto; E Messer (eds) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. United Nations University, pp. 83-125 [nutritional anthropology; method; time allocation].

Nydon J; Thomas RB (1989) Methodological Procedures for Analyzing Energy Expenditures. in H Pelto; PJ Pelto; E Messer (eds) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. United Nations University [nutritional anthropology; methods; energy expenditure].

Pelto G (2001) Continuities and Challenges in Applied Nutritional Anthropology. Nutritional Anthropology. 22:16-22 [nutritional anthropology].

Pelto G. 1996. Nutritional Anthropology. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropolgy. D Levinson; M Ember. Henry Holt and Company. [nutritional anthropology; overview]

Pelto G; Pelto P; Messer E (1989) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. The United Nations University [nutritional anthropology; methods].

Pelto GH; Pelto PJ (1989) Small but Healthy? An Anthropological Perspective. Human Organization. 48:11-15 [nutritional anthropology; undernutrition; developmental adaptation].

Pelto GH; Pelto PJ; Lung'aho MS (1981) "Modern" And "Traditional" Food Use in West Finland: An Example of Quantitative Pattern Analysis. Nutritional Research. 1:63-71 [food habit change; nutritional anthropology; research methods; Europe].

Pelto PJ (1989) Strategies of Field Research in Nutritional Anthropology. in G Pelto; P Pelto; E Messer (eds) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. United Nations University, pp. 34-56 [nutritional anthropology; field methods].

Quandt SA (1984) Nutritional Thriftiness and Human Reproduction: Beyond the Critical Body Composition Hypothesis. Social Science and Medicine. 19:177-182 [nutritional anthropology; menstruation].

Quandt SA (1987) Methods for Determining Dietary Intake. in FE Johnston (ed) Nutritional Anthropology. New York: Wiley Liss, pp. 67-84- [nutritional anthropology; research methods].

Quandt SA (2000) Infant and Child Nutrition. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food, pp. 1444-1453 [history; maternal nutrition; nutritional anthropology].

Quandt SA; Ritenbaugh C (1986) Training Manual in Nutritional Anthropology. American Anthropological Association [nutritional anthropology; methods; regional surveys; East Africa; Middle East; Bangladesh; Amazonia; North America].

Quandt SA; Vitolins MZ; DeWalt KM, et al. (1997) Meal Patterns of Older Adults in Rural Communities: Life Course Analysis and Implications for Nutrition. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 16:152=171 [nutritional anthropology; life course; social relations; malnutrition; North America; United States; Kentucky].

Scrimshaw S; Hurtado E (1987) Rapid Assessment Procedures for Nutrition and Primary Health Care: Anthropological Approaches to Improving Programme Effectiveness. United Nations University [nutritional anthropology; methods; collected papers].

Stini W (2001) Nutritional Anthropology And "The Great Protein Fiasco". Nutritional Anthropology. 22:23-28 [nutritional anthropology; protein].

Stinson S (1992) Nutritional Adaptation. Annual Review of Anthropology. 21:Page [nutritional anthropology; physical anthropology; undernutrition].

Tuttle CR (2002) Lessons Learned from Failed Research among the New Zealand Maori. Nutritional Anthropology. 25:13-19 [nutritional anthropology; Oceania].

Ulijaszek SJ; Strickland SS. 1993. Nutritional Anthropology: Prospects and Perspectives. Smith-Gordon. [nutritional anthropology; overview]

Van Willigen J; DeWalt BR (1986) Training Manual in Policy Ethnography. American Anthropological Association [nutritional anthropology; methods and techniques].

Wilson C (1977) Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. in T Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action [nutritional anthropology; research methods].

Wilson C (1985) Nutritionally Beneficial Cultural Practices. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics. 45:68-96 [nutritional anthropology; food habits and health].

Wilson C (1994) Traditional Diets; Their Value and Preservation. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 32:89-90 [nutritional anthropology; eating habits; ethnicity; nutritional policy; nutrition education].

Wilson CS (2002) Reasons for Eating: Personal Experiences in Nutrition and Anthropology. Appetite. 38:63-67 [nutritional anthropology; interdisplinary research].

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