Synopses & Reviews
This collection of readings exposes students to the breadth of theoretical viewpoints and issues in the field of nutritional anthropology.
Table of Contents
Preface
Gretel H. Pelto, Alan Goodman, and Darna Dufour, The Biocultural Perspective in Nutritional Anthropology
Part I. A Taste of Nutritional Anthropology
Richard B. Lee, Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
John Grossman, How Many Calories Are There in a 230- Calorie Dinner?
Lavinia Edmonds, The Magic Bullet?
Part II. The Quest for Food: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives
The Biological Baseline
Pat Shipman, Scavenger Hunt
Richard B. Lee, What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources
Katherine Milton, Diet and Primate Evolution
Agriculture: The Great Revolution
Alan Goodman and George J. Armelagos, Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds
S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner, Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications
Robert M. Sapolsky, Junk Food Monkeys
Variations in Contemporary Food Systems: Pluses and Minuses
Darna L. Dufour, Use of Tropical Rainforests by Native Amazonians
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