Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice: 6 (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition, 6)

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9781845453534: Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice: 6 (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition, 6)
ISBN 10: 1845453530 ISBN 13: 9781845453534
Editorial: Berghahn Books, 2007

Sinopsis

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.

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Acerca de los autores

Jeremy M. MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Consuming Culture, and prize-winning investigator of Basque cuisine.



Jeya Henry is Professor of Human Nutrition at the School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, and Visting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a board member of the UK Food Standards agency between 2000-2003 and has published extensively on energy regulation and obesity.



Helen Macbeth is Chair of ICAF (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University.

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Editorial
Berghahn Books
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1845453530
ISBN 13 
9781845453534
Encuadernación
Encuadernación de biblioteca
Número de páginas
258
Editor
Henry C. Jeya, Macbeth Helen, MacClancy Jeremy
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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9781845456849: Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice: v. 6 (Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)

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ISBN 10:  184545684X ISBN 13:  9781845456849
Editorial: Berghahn Books, 2009
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