Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Volume 6, Consuming the Inedible
edited by Jeya Henry, fl. 1983, Jeremy MacClancy, 1953- and Helen Macbeth, fl. 2004, in Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Volume 6 (New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2009, originally published 2007), 257 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, inter-disciplinary 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.
- Field of Interest
- Food Studies Online
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2007 by Berghahn Books
- Content Type
- Book
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- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2007
- Page Count
- 257
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Place Published / Released
- New York, NY
- Series Number
- Volume 6
- Subject
- Food Studies Online, Social Sciences, Health and Nutrition, Food in Anthropology, Diet and food, Eating disorders, Nutrition, Food habits, Food preferences, Salud y Nutrición, Saúde e Nutrição, Antropología de la Alimentación, Antropologia da Alimentação, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
- Series / Program
- Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Salud y Nutrición, Saúde e Nutrição, Antropología de la Alimentación, Antropologia da Alimentação