FOOD AND CULTURE
Australia and Oceania

"Lunch chez les Danis" (Papua New Guinea; © Carlo Ottaviano Casana)

Abbott I (1991) Polynesian Uses of Seaweed. in P Cox; S Banack (eds) Islands, Plants, and Polynesians: An Introduction to Polynesian Ethnobotany: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored the the Institute for Polynesian Studies, pp. 135-145 [Oceania].

Abbott I (1992) The Staple Crops, Kalo and 'Uala La'au Hawai'i: Traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants. Bishop Museum Press, pp. 23-32 [foodstuff; Oceania].

Agyei W (1984) Breastfeeding and Sexual Abstinence in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Biosocial Science. 16:451-461 [infant feeding; Oceania].

Recommended -- click for detailsBarlow K (1984) The Social Context of Infant Feeding in the Murik Lakes of Papua, New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:61-72 [social relations; infant feeding; Oceania; New Guinea].

Becker AE; Burwell RA; Navara K, et al. (2003) Binge Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in a Small-Scale, Indigenous Society: The View from Fiji. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 34:423-431 [eating disorder; Oceania; Fiji].

Bindon JR (1982) Banana, Breadfruit, Beef, and Beer: Modernization of the Samoan Diet. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 12:49-60 [dietary change; Oceania; Samoa].

Bindon JR (1984) An Evaluation of the Diet of Three Groups of Samoan Adults: Modernization and Dietary Adequacy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:105-115 [dietary change; Oceania; Samoa].

Bindon JR (1988) Taro or Rice, Plantation or Market; Dietary Choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways. 3:59-78 [food choice; dietary change; Oceania; Samoa].

Bindon JR (1994) Some Implications of the Diet of Children in American Samoa. Collegium Anthropologicum. 18 [change; ecology; child nutrition; Oceania; Samoa].

Bliege BR; Bird D (1997) Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft. Current Anthropology. 38:49-78 [food sharing; behavioral ecology; Australia; Torres Straits; Nerian].

Boyd DJ (2001) Life without Pigs: Recent Subsistence Changes among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea. Human Ecology. 29:259-282 [dietary change; Oceania].

Brand-Miller JC (1998) Australian Aboriginal Plant Foods: A Consideration of Their Nutritional Composition and Health Implications. Nutrition Research Reviews. 11:5-23 [prehistoric diet; food use; vegetable foraging; hunter-gatherer; Australia; ].

Burns C (2004) Effect of Migration on Food Habits of Somali Women Living as Refugees in Australia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 43:213-229 [migration; economic transition; acculturation; diet; overweight; obesity; food habits; Africa; Somalia; Australia].

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].

Connell J; Hamnett M (1987) Famine or Feast: Sago Production in Bougainville. Journal of the Polynesian Society. 87:231-241 [food species; Oceania].

Conton L (1985) Social, Economic and Ecological Parameters of Infant Feeding in Usino, Papua New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 16:39-54 [nutrition; ecology; infant feeding; Oceania; New Guinea; Usino].

Cook PH; Wyndham AJ (1953) Patterns of Eating Behavior. Human Relations. 6:141-160 [social relations; industrial workers; lunchtime; Western culture; Australia].

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].

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

Recommended -- Click for detailsDennett G; Connell, J (1988) Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Dissent on Diversity, Diets, and Development. Current Anthropology. 29:273-299 [food habit change; Oceania].

Dixon J (2002) The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture. University of New South Wales Press [foodstuff; history; food system; marketing; culinary culture; change; Australia].

Dornstreich M; Morren GEB (1974) Does New Guinea Cannibalism Have Nutritional Value? Human Ecology. 2:1-12 [cannibalism; nutritional value; Oceania; New Guinea].

Dyson LE (2002) How to Cook a Galah: Celebrating Australia's Culinary Heritage. Lothian Books [history; food habits; cookery; Australia].

Ferro-Luzzi G (1962) Food Patterns and Nutrition in French Polynesia. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 11:299-311 [food habits; dietary patterns; nutrition; Oceania; Polynesia].

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

Fitzgerald TM (1986) Dietary Change among Cook Islanders in New Zealand. in L Manderson (ed) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania. Cambridge University Press [change; Oceania; Cook Islands; New Zealand].

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. 99:184-190 [modernization; dietary change; Oceania; American Samoa; Western Samoa].

Gibson J (2000) Migration and Dietary Change: Highlanders and the Demand for Staples in Urban Png. Aciar Proceedings.88-93 [urbanization; Oceania; Papua New Guinea].

Gittelsohn J; Haberle H; Vastine AE, et al. (2003) Macro- and Microlevel Processes Affect Food Choice and Nutritional Status in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Journal of Nutrition. 133:310S-313S [food system; Westernization; obesity; child nutrition; Oceania].

An Eccentric Treasure Chest -- click for detailsGracey M (2000) Historical, Cultural, Political, and Social Influences on Dietary Patterns and Nutrition in Australian Aboriginal Children. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72:1361s- [child nutrition; Australia; Aborigine].

Ishige N (1977) Roasting Dog in an Earth Oven (Ponape). in J Kuper (ed) The Anthropologists' Cookbook. Universe Books, pp. 203-205 [food use; cookery; Oceania; Micronesia; Ponape].

Jenkins C; Milton K (1993) Diet and Survival among the Hagahai of Papua New Guinea. in CM Hladik (ed) Tropical Forests, People and Food Man and the Biosphere Series [nutritional status; health; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Hagahai].

Joseph FG (1981) Commentary: Influence of Development Factors on Nutritional Patterns in the Solomon Islands. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 10:187-191- [social development and culture change; Oceania; Solomon Islands].

Kahn M (1986) Always Hungry, Never Greedy. Waveland [symbolism; appetite expression; social relations; sharing; Oceania; New Guinea].

Lako JV (2001) Dietary Trend and Diabetes: Its Associations among Fijians from 1952 to 1994. Asian Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 10:183-187 [diet and disease; diabetes; Oceania; Fiji].

Leach H (2003) Did East Polynesians Have a Concept of Luxury Foods? World Archaeology. 34:442-457 [Oceania; Polynesia ??].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsLemonnier P (1996) Food, Competition, and the Status of Food in New Guinea. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 219-234 [social relations; pig feasts; Oceania].

Lewis ND (2000) The Pacific Islands. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1351-1366 [history; food habits; food systems; processing; urbanization and change; nutrition and health; Oceania].

Manderson L (1986) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture, and Society in Oceania. Cambridge University Press [collected essays; Oceania].

Marshall LB (1984) Wage Employment and Infant Feeding: A Papua New Guinea Case. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:170-190 [economic and social change; infant feeding; Oceanian; Papua New Guinea].

Marshall LB (1985) Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. Gordon and Breach [infant feeding practices; Oceania; Fiji; Papua New Guinea; Samoa].

McKnight D (1973) Sexual Symbolism of Food among the Wik-Mungkan. Man. 8:194-210 [symbolism; sex; Oceania; New Guinea].

Mead M (1934) How the Papuan Plans His Dinner. Natural History. 34:377-388 [ethnic foodways; Oceania; Papua New Guinea].

Milligan RAK; Burke V; Gracy MP (1998) Influence of Gender and Socio-Economic Status on Dietary Patterns and Nutrient Intakes in 18-Year-Old Australians. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 22:485- [dietary patterns; Australia].

Murton B (2000) Australia and New Zealand. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1339-1350 [history; contemporary food habits; modernization; Oceania; European immigrants; Australians Aborigines; Maori].

Nardi B (1984) Infant Feeding and Women's Work in Western Samoa: A Hypothesis. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:277-28- [infant feeding; Oceania; Western Samoa].

Page LB (1987) Diet and Nutrition. in JS Friedlander (ed) The Solomon Island Project: A Long-Term Study of Health, Human Biology, and Culture Change. Oxford University Press, pp. 65-88- [diet; change; Oceania; Solomon Islands].

Palmer K; Brady M (1991) Diet and Dust in the Desert an Aboriginal Community, Maralinga Lands, South Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press [food habits; nutrition and health; Australia; Pitjantjatjara].

Parkinson S (1961) Influence of Food Patterns on the Nutrition of Pacific Islanders. Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of Dietetics.16-22 [food habits; nutritional status; Oceania].

Peterson N (1978) The Traditional Pattern of Subsistence to 1975. in BS Hetzel; HJ Frith (eds) The Nutrition of Aborigines in Relation to the Ecosystem of Central Australia [food habits; Australia; Aborigines].

Pollock NJ (1974) Breadfruit or Rice? Dietary Choice on a Micronesian Atoll. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 3:107-115 [food selection; Oceania].

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].

A Great Masterpiece -- click for detailsPowdermaker H (1932) Feast in New Ireland: The Social Function of Eating. American Anthropologist. 34:236-247 [feast; social relations; Oceania; New Ireland].

Rappaport R (1967) Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People [ecology; food use; pork; ritual; Oceania; New Guinea; Tsembaga Maring].

Rappaport R (1971) The Flow of Energy in an Agricultural Society. Scientific American. 225:116-132 [ecology; Oceania; New Guinea; Tsembaga Maring].

Ravuvu A (1991) A Fijian Cultural Perspective on Food. in A Janese; S Parkinson; A Robertson (eds) Food and Nutrition in Fiji, pp. 622-636 [food habits; symbols and meanings; Oceania].

Richardson K (2003) Vegemite, Soldiers, and Rosy Cheeks. Gastronomica. 3:60-62 [foodstuff; social identity; Australia].

Rody N (1978) Things Go Better with Coconuts -- Program Strategies in Micronesia. Journal of Nutrition Education. 10:19-22 [food species; change; Oceania; Micronesia].

Ross H (1976) Bush Fallow Farming, Diet and Nutrition: A Melanesian Example of Successful Adaptation. in E Giles; J Friedlander (eds) The Measures of Man: Methodologies in Biological Anthropology, pp. 550-615 [ecology; Oceania; Melanesia; Malaita; Baegu].

Rozin P; Siegal M (2003) Vegemite as a Marker of National Identity. Gastronomica. 3:63-67 [social identity; Australia].

Schiefenhoveal W (1997) Good Taste and Bad Taste: Preferences and Aversions as Biological Principles. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 55-64 [disgust and aversion; physiology; ethology; ecology; Oceania; Trobriand Islands].

Schiefenhovel W; Bell-Krannhals I (1996) Of Harvests and Hierarchies: Securing Food and Social Position in the Trobriand Islands. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 235-251 [social relations; food gifts and sharing; Oceania].

Schieffelin E (1976) The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancer [symbolism; social relations; fighting with food; Oceania; New Guinea].

Schmied V; Lupton D (2001) Blurring the Boundaries: Breastfeeding and Maternal Subjectivity. Sociology of Health and Illness. 23:234-250 [infant feeding; social relations; mother-infant bond; Australia].

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

Shack K; Grivetti LE; Dewey K (1990) Cash Cropping, Subsistence Agriculture and Nutritional Status among Mothers of Children in Lowland Papua New Guinea. Social Science and Medicine. 31:61-72 [maternal nutrition; economy; Oceania; Papua New Guinea].

Sjostedt J; Schmaker J; Nathawat SS (1998) Eating Disorders among Indian and Australian University Students. Journal of Social Psychology. 138 [disturbed behavior; students; South Asia; India; Australia].

Sorenson ER; Gadjusek DC (1969) Nutrition in the Kuru Region I Gardening, Food Handling, and Diet of the Fore People. Acta Tropical. 26:281-330 [dietary patterns; food processing; nutritional status; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Fore].

Symons M (1982) One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia [history; Australia].

Thaman R (1982) Deterioration of Traditional Food Systems, Increasing Malnutrition and Food Dependency in the Pacific Islands. Journal of Food and Nutrition. 39:109-125 [dietary change; malnutrition; Oceania].

Thaman R (1990) The Evolution of the Fiji Food System. in A Janese; S Parkinson; A Robertson (eds) Food and Nutrition in Fiji, pp. 23-107 [food habit change; Oceania].

Tietjen AM (1984) Infant Care and Feeding Practices and the Beginnings of Socialization among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:39-48 [infant feeding practices; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Maisin].

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

Tuzin D (1972) Yam Symbolism in the Sepik: An Interpretative Account. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 28:230-254 [symbolism; social relations; sex; Oceania; New Guinea].

Ulijaszek SJ (2003) Trends in Body Size, Diet and Food Availability in the Cook Islands in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Economics and Human Biology. 1:123-137 [weight; obesity; diet; energy expenditure; Oceania; Cook Islands].

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].

Recommended -- click for detailsWenkan NS; Wolff RJ (1970) A Half Century of Changing Food Habits among Japanese in Hawaii. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 57:29-32 [change; Oceania; United States; Hawaii; Japanese Americans].

Whitehead H (2000) Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. University of Michigan Press [social relations; sharing; gender; taboo; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Seltaman].

Yen DE (1974) The Sweet Potato and Oceania. Bishop Museum [food specie; Oceania].

Yen DE (1975) Indigenous Food Processing in Oceania. in ML Arnott (ed) Gastronomy: The Anthropology of Food and Nutrition [ethnic foodways; processing; cookery; Oceania].

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

Young M (1986) The Worst Disease: Cultural Definition of Hunger in Kalauna. in L Manderson (ed) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press [hunger; meaning; Oceania; Melanesia; Kalaun].

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