FOOD AND CULTURE
South Asia
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Achaya
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Bagchi T (1994) Profile of Some Indian Tribes: An Anthropo-Nutritional Micro
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Seagull Books [cookery; food habits; gender relations; religion; South Asia;
India].![]()
Banerji C (2006) Feeding the Gods: Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal.
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Bhowmik DC (1984) Food Habits of the Khasi People: A Study of Tradition and Change. Journal of the Anthropology Survey of India. 33:263-269 [change; South Asia; India; Khasi].
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Boyce J; Hartman B (1979) Needless Hunger, Voices from a Bangladesh Village.
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Breckenridge C (1986) Food, Politics, and Pilgrimage in South India,
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Chakraborty DK (1992) Turtle Eating Ceremony among the Great Andamese. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India. 41:11-17 [feast; food use; symbol and meaning; South Asia; India; Adaman Islands].
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Chatterjee M (1989) Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural Influences on Women's Nutritional Status and Roles. in C Gopalan; S Kaur (eds) Women and Nutrition in India. Nutritional Foundation of India [nutritional status; women; South Asia; India].
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Diener P (1978) The Dialectics of the Sacred Cow: Ecological Adaptation Versus Political Appropriation in the Origins of India's Cattle Complex. Dialectical Anthropology. 3:221-242 [taboo; sacred cow; ecology; politics; South Asia; India].
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Ferro-Luzzi G (1977) Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings. Current Anthropology. 18:507-514 [symbol; ritual; South Asia; India].
Ferro-Luzzi G (1980) Food Avoidances at Puberty and Menstruation in Tamilnad.
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Ferro-Luzzi G (1980) Food Avoidances During the Pueriperium and Lactation in
Tamilnad. in JRK Robson (ed) Food, Ecology and Culture. Gordon and
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Gittelsohn J (1991) Opening the Box: Intrahousehold Food Allocation in Rural Nepal. Social Science and Medicine. 33:1141-1154 [food sharing; distribution; family relations; South Asia; Nepal].
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Asia; India; Bengal].![]()
Griffiths P; Matthews Z; Hinde A (2002) Gender, Family, and the Nutritional Status of Children in Three Culturally Contrasting States of India. Social Science and Medicine. 55:775-790 [child nutrition; South Asia].
Gupta SP (1975) Changes in the Food Habits of Asian Indians in the United States: A Case Study. Sociology and Social Research. 60:87-99 [food habit change; South Asia; India; North America; United States].
Hanchett S (1975) Hindu Potlatches: Ceremonial Reciprocity and Prestige in Karnataka. in HE Ullrich (ed) Competition and Modernization in South Asia. Abhinav, pp. 27-59 [feasts; social relations; prestige; South Asia; India].
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Harris B (1990) Food Distribution, Death and Disease in South Asia. in GA
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Societies. Cambridge University Press, pp. 290-306 [malnutrition; South
Asia].![]()
Harris M (1966) The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle. Current Anthropology. 7:51-60 [taboo; beef eating; ecology; South Asia; India].
Hartman B; Boyce J (1983) A Quiet Violence, View from a Bangladesh Village.
Food First Books [poverty; hunger; South Asia; Bangladesh].![]()
Hassan R; Ahmad K (1984) Studies on Food and Nutrient Intake by Rural Population of Bangladesh: Comparison between Intakes of 1962-64, 1975-76 and 1981-82. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:143-158 [dietary intake; change; South Asia].
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Khare RS (1976) The Hindu Hearth and Home. Vikas Publishing House [symbol;
commensal relations; nutritional anthropology; South Asia; India].![]()
Khare RS (1992) Annambrahman: Cultural Models, Meanings, and Aesthetics of
Hindu Food. Albany: State of New York Press [symbol; perference; aversion; South
Asia; India].![]()
Khare RS (1992) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and
Buddhists. State University of New York Press [collected essays; theory;
nutritional anthropology; symbol; social identity; South Asia; India].![]()
Khare RS (1992) Food with Saints: An Aspect of Hindu Gastrosemantics. in S
Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and
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Asia].![]()
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Nair KN (1987) Animal Protein Consumption and the Sacred Cow Complex in
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Nichter M (1986) Modes of Food Classification and the Diet -- Health
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Nichter M; Nichter M (1983) The Ethnophysiology and Folk Dietetics of Pregnancy: A Case Study from South India. Human Organization. 42:235-246 [folk knowledge; folk dietetics; classification; maternal nutrition; pregnancy; South Asia; India].
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Ramanujan AK (1992) Food for Thought: Toward an Anthology of Hindu
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Rao MSA (1986) Conservatism and Change in Food Habits among the Migrants in
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Rizvi N (1986) Food Categories in Bangladesh and Its Relationship to Food
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Toomey P (1992) Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion of the
Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic
Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State University of New York
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Northern India; Braj].![]()
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Hindu. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of
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