ترجیحات غذایی و طعم: تداوم و تغییر

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic. CONTENTS FIGURES AND MAPS TABLES FOREWORD PREFACE 1. FOOD PREFERENCES AND TASTE 2. PRIMATE MODELS FOR TASTE AND FOOD PREFERENCES 3. FOOD PREFERENCES IN NEOTROPICAL PRIMATES IN RELATION TO TASTE SENSITIVITY 4. NEURAL PROCESSING UNDERLYING FOOD SELECTION 5. GOOD TASTE AND BAD TASTE 6. DISGUST 7. WILD PLANTS AS FAMINE FOODS 8. THREE CENTURIES OF CHANGING EUROPEAN TASTES FOR THE POTATO 9. THE PATHWAYS OF TASTE 10. EVOLUTION IN EATING HABITS IN THE ALTO DOURO OF NORTHERN PORTUGAL 11. NATIONALITY AND FOOD PREFERENCES IN THE CERDANYA VALLEY, EASTERN PYRENES 12. BREAKING THE RULES 13. CHOICES OF FOOD AND CUISINE IN THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL SPACE AMONG THE YAO OF THAILAND 14. TASTE AND EMBODIMENT 15. FOOD PREFERENCES AND TASTE IN AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes social and biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic