FOOD AND CULTURE

South America Untitled (© Clara Natoli)

Aguirre P (2004) Socioanthropological Aspects of Obesity in Poverty. Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge. 1:11-22(12) [obesity; poverty; social and economic conditions; women; South America; Argentina].

Amorozo CD (1984) The Effect of Income and Length of Urban Residence on Food Patterns, Food Intake and Nutrient Adequacy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:307-323 [food habit change; urbanization; poverty; South America; Brazil; Amazonia].

Archetti E (1997) Guinea Pigs: Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador. Berg [food species; symbolic meaning; South America; Ecuador].

Behrens C (1986) Shipibo Food Categorization and Preference: Relationships between Indigenous and Western Dietary Concepts. American Anthropologist. 88:647-657 [classification of foods; preferences; South American Indians; Peru; Shipibo].

Borigato E; Martinez F (1998) Iron Nutritional Status Is Improved in Brazilian Infants Fed Food Cooked in Iron Pots. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:855- [infant nutrition; iron; South America; Brazil].

Burchand RE (1992) Coca Chewing and Diet. Current Anthropology. 33:1-24 [drugs; food consumption; South America; Andes].

Recommended -- click for detailsCarney J (2001) Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Harvard University Press [food species; history; Atlantic World; Africa; Gambia; North America; South Carolina; Georgia; South America; Eastern Amazon].

Recommended -- click for detailsClastres P (1998) Cannibals. The Sciences. 38 [cannibalism; meaning; South America; Paraguay; Ache].

Coe SD (1994) America's First Cuisines. University of Texas Press [prehistory; history; eating habits; food systems; Central America; Mexico; South America; Aztec; Maya; Inca].

Conklin BA (2001) Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. University of Texas [cannibalism; South America; Amazon; Wari].

Delgado L (1991) Food Aid in Peru: Refusal and Acceptance in a Peasant Community of the Central Andes. Food and Foodways. 5:57-77 [food assistance; South America; Peru; central Andes].

Dole G (1978) The Use of Manioc among the Kuikuru: Some Interpretations. in I Ford (ed) The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany. Museum of anthropology University of Michigan Anthropological Papers No 67, pp. 21-247 [food specie; South America; Kuikuru].

Dufour DL (1985) Manioc as a Dietary Staple: Implications for the Budgeting of Time and Energy in the Northwest Amazon. in D Cattle; K Schwerin (eds) Food Energy in Tropical Ecosystems. Gordon and Breach, pp. 1-20 [food specie; ecology; South America; Brazil; Amazonia].

Dufour DL (1987) Insects as Food: A Case Study from the Nothwest Amazon. American Anthropologist. 89:383-397 [food species; South American Indians; Brazil; Amazonia].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsDufour DL (1988) Cyanide Content of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta, Eurphorbiaceae) Cultivars Used by Tukanoan Indians in Northwest Amazonia. Economic Botany. 42:255-266 [foodstuff; manioc; South America; Amazonia; Tukanoan Indians].

Important Collection -- click for detailsGade DW (2000) South America. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food, pp. 1254-1260 [history; food habits; nutrition; South America].

Good KR (1987) Limiting Factors in Amazonian Ecology. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 407-426 [ecology; South America; Amazonia].

Graham MA (2003) Adaptation of the Weighed Food Record Method to Households in the Peruvian Andes and Ethnographic Insights on Hunger. Field Methods. 15:143-160 [research methods; South America].

Greene L (1977) Hyperendemic Goiter, Cretinism and Social Organization in Highland Ecuador. in a Greene (ed) Malnutrition, Behavior, and Social Organization. New York: Academic Press, pp. 55-94- [malnutrition; disease; social 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 LS Greene; FE Johnston (eds) Social and Biological Predictors of Nutritional Status. Academic Press, pp. 223-256- [malnutrition; social relations; South America; Ecuador].

Gross D (1975) Protein Capture and Cultural Development in the Amazon Basin. American Anthropologist. 77:526-549 [ecology; protein; South America; Amazonia].

Gross D; Underwood B (1971) Technological Change and Caloric Costs: Sisal Agriculture in Northeastern Brazil. American Anthropologist. 73:725-740 [industrialization; poverty; South America; Brazil].

Guerron-Montero C; Moreno-Black G (2001) Household Structure and Dietary Patterns in the Afro-Ecuadorian Highlands. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 22:23-30 [social relations, domestic; diet; South America; Ecuador; Afro-Ecuadorian].

Gurven M; Hill K; Lyles R (2000) Food Transfers among Hiwi Foragers of Venezuela: Tests of Reciprocity. Human Ecology. 28:171- [social relations; exchange; South America; Venezuela; Hiwi].

Hawkes K (1991) Showing Off: Tests of a Hypothesis About Men's Foraging Goals. Ethnology and Sociobiology. 2:29-54 [food sharing; evolution; behavioral ecology; hunter-gatherer; South America; Paraguay; Ache].

Hawkes K; Hill K; O'Connell J (1982) Why Hunters Gather, Optimal Foraging Theory and the Ache of Eastern Ache Paraguay. American Ethnologist. 9:379-398 [ecology; optimal foraging theory; diet selection; hunters and gatherers; South American Indians; Paraguay; Ache].

Hill K; Kaplan H; Hawks K, et al. (1984) Seasonal Variance in the Diet of Ache Hunters-Gatherers in Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology. 12:145-180 [ecology; dietary intake; hunters and gatherers; South American Indians; Paraguay; Ache].

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

Hurtado AM; Hawkes K; Hill K, et al. (1985) Female Subsistence Strategies among Ache Hunter-Gatherers of Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology. 13:1-28 [ecology; females; hunters-gatherers; South American Indians; Paraguay; Ache].

Johannessen S; Hastorf CA (1994) Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World. West View Press [collected papers; prehistory; food use; Central America; North America; South America].

Johnson A; Baksh M (1987) Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two Machinguenga Communities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press [ecology; food gathering; dietary patterns; South American Indians; Machiguenga].

Johnson O (1980) The Social Context of Intimacy and Avoidance: A Videotape Study of Machiguenga Meals. Ethnology. 14:353-366 [social relations; commensal pattern; South American Indian; Machiguenga].

Johnsson M (1988) Food and Culture among the Bolivian Aymara. Uppsala University Press [social relations; foodways; diet; South American Indian; Bolivia; Aymara].

Kaplan H; Hill K (1985) Food Sharing among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses. Current Anthropology. 26:223-246 [social relations; evolution; behavioral ecology; South America; Paraguay].

Katz S; Hediger ML; Valleroy LA (1975) The Anthropological and Nutritional Significance of Traditional Maize Processing Techniques in the New World. in E Watts; F Johnston; G Lasker (eds) Biosocial Interrelations in Population Adaptation. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 195-231 [food processing; North American Indian, South American Indian].

Keegan WF (2000) The Caribbean, Including Northern South America and Lowland Central America: Early History. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1260-1278 [history; Caribbean; Central America; South America; Taino; Lucayan; African-Caribbean; Garifuna].

Kensinger K; Kracke W (1981) Working Papers on South American Indians: Food Taboos in Lowland South America

Ladio A; Lozada M (2000) Edible Wild Plant Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwestern Patagonia. Human Ecology. 28:53- [food species; vegetable gathering; South America; Chile; Patagonia; Mapuche].

Ladio AH; Lozada M (2004) Summer Cattle Transhumance and Wild Edible Plant Gathering in a Mapuche Community of Northwestern Patagonia. Human Ecology. 32:225-240 [food species; vegetable gathering; South America; Patagonia; Mapuche].

Lentz C, editor (1998) Changing Food Habits: Case Studies from Africa, South America, and Europe. Gordon and Breach [collected papers; change; Africa; South America; Europe].

Leonard W; Thomas RB (1988) Changing Dietary Patterns in the Peruvian Andes. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 21:245-263 [change; dietary patterns; South America; Peru].

Leonard W; Thomas RB (1989) Biosocial Responses to Seasonal Food Stress in Highland Peru. Human Biology. 61:65-85 [ecology; physiology; social relations; hunger; South America; Peru].

Leonard WR (1989) Protection of Children from Seasonal Nutritional Stress in an Andean Agricultural Community. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 43:597-602 [seasonal hunger; children; South America; Andes; Peru].

MacDonald BA; Watts B; Fitzpatrick D (1993) Comparison of Taste Thresholds in Selected Canadian and Peruvian Populations. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 30:241-251 [physiology; taste; North America; South America; Canada; Peru].

Marquis GS; Diaz J; Barolini R (1998) Recognizing the Reversible Nature of Child Feeding Decisions: Breastfeeding, Weaning, and Relactation Patterns in a Shanty Town Community of Lima, Peru. Social Science and Medicine. 47:645-656 [infant feeding; South America].

Martorell R; Khan LK; Grummer-Strawn L (1998) Obesity in Latin American Women and Children. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:1464- [obesity; women; children; South America].

Mazess RB (1968) Hot-Cold Food Beliefs among Andean Peasants. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 53:109-113 [food classification; hot-cold system; South America; Andes].

McClelland DA (1992) Good as Gold: Foods the Americas Gave the World. Smithsonian [history; foodstuffs; diffusion; Central America; North America; South America].

Milton K (1984) Protein and Carbohydrate Resources of the Maku Indians of Northwestern Amazonia. American Anthropologist. 86:7-27 [ecology; dietary resources; South American Indians; Brazil; Columbia; Maku].

Milton K (1991) Comparative Aspects of Diet in Amazonian Forest-Dwellers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. 334:253-263 [diet; food taboos; South American Indians; Amazonia].

Important Collection -- click for detailsNellin E (1955) Maternal and Infant Feeding Practices in a Peruvian Village. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 31:889-894 [maternal diet; infant feeding; South America; Peru].

Orlove BS (1987) Stability and Change in Highland Andean Dietary Patterns. in MRE Harris (ed) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 481-516- [dietary acculturation; South America; Andean peasants; Peru].

Orlove BS (1997) Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Food Riot. Cultural Anthropology. 12:234-268 [social relations; political conflict; food prices; South America; Chile].

Piperno D; Pearsall D (1998) The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics. Academic Press [prehistory; origins of agriculture; South America].

Pollock DK (1985) Food and Sexual Identity among the Culina. Food and Foodways. 1:25-42 [social relations; division of labor; South America; Brazil; Amazon].

Price R (1991) Subsistence on the Plantation Periphery: Crops, Cooking, and Labour among Eighteenth-Century Suriname Maroons. Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies. 12 (special issue):107-127 [history; food habits; Caribbean; South America].

Reichel-Dolmatoff G (1971) Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. University of Chicago Press [food habits; meanings; South America; Tukano (Tucano)].

Reichel-Dolmatoff G (1979) Desana Animal Categories, Food Restrictions and the Concept of Color Energies. Journal of Latin American Folklore. 4:243-291 [categories; taboo; symbolic meaning; South America; Columbia; Desana].

Reichel-Dolmatoff G; Reichel-Dolmatoff A (1961) The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village [social relations; personality; South America; Columbia; mestizo].

Ross E (1978) Food Taboos in Amazon Cultural Ecology. Current Anthropology. 19:1-36 [taboo; ecology; South American Indian; Amazonia].

Rubin J; Flowers NM; Gross DR (1986) The Adaptive Dimensions of Leisure. American Ethnologist. 13:524-536 [ecology; food habits; diet; change; South American Indians].

Sawaya AL; Martins P; Hoffman D, et al. (2003) The Link between Childhood Undernutrition and Risk of Chronic Diseases in Adulthood: A Case Study of Brasil. Nutrition Reviews. 61:168-175 [child nutrition; obesity; chronic degenerative disease; nutritional transition; South America].

Recommended -- click for detailsScheper-Hughes N (1984) Infant Mortality and Infant Care: Cultural and Economic Constraints on Nuturing in Northern Brazil. Social Science and Medicine. 19:535-546 [infant nutrition; economy; South America].

Scheper-Hughes N (1992) Death without Weeping. University of California Press [malnutrition; children; South America; Brazil].

Super JC. 1988. Food, Conquest, and Colonization in 16th Century Spanish America. [history; Central America; South America].

Super JC; Wright TC (1985) Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America. University of Nebraska Press [food system; South America; Central Recommended -- click for detailsAmerica; Mexico].

Victora C (1986) Child Malnutrition and Land Ownership in Southern Brazil. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 18:251-264 [malnutrition; children; South America; Brazil].

Weismantel MJ (1988) Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Waveland [symbolism; social relations; cultural change; South America; Ecuador; Zumbagua].

Werge RW (1979) Potato Processing in the Central Highlands of Peru. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 7:229-234 [food processing, potato; South America; Peru].

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