Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods (Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition, 1)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods. Introduction to the three-volume set research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition / Janet Chrzan -- Introduction to food research : nutritional anthropology and archaeological methods / Janet Chrzan -- Research ethics in food studies / Sharon Devine and John Brett -- Design in biocultural studies of food and nutritional anthropology : section introduction / Darna Dufour and Barbara Piperata -- Nutritional anthropometry and body composition / Leslie Sue Lieberman -- Measuring energy expenditure in daily living : established methods and new directions / Mark Jenike -- Dietary analyses / Andrea Wiley -- Ethnography as a tool for formative research and evaluation in public health nutrition : illustrations from the world of infant and young child feeding / Sera Young and Emily Tuthill -- Primate nutrition and foodways / Jessica Rothman and Caley Johnson -- Food episodes/social events : measuring the nutritional and social value of commensality / Janet Chrzan -- Archaeological food and nutrition research : section introduction / Patti Wright -- Researching plant food remains from archaeological contexts : macroscopic, microscopic, chemical, and molecular approaches / Patti Wright -- Methods for reconstructing diet / Bethany Turner and Sarah Livengood -- Nutritional stress in past human groups / Alan Goodman -- Research on direct food remains / Katherine Moore -- If there is food, we will eat : an evolutionary and global perspective on human diet and nutrition / Janet Monge -- Experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and the application of archaeological data to the study of subsistence, diet, and nutrition / Karen Bescherer Metheny The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health