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

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ISBN 10: 184545684X ISBN 13: 9781845456849

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Throughout the world, 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 a 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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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184545684X
• ISBN 13: 9781845456849
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
• Herausgeber: Macclancy Jeremy M., Henry Jeya, Macbeth Helen
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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