Nutritional Anthropology : Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition

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

Kathleen A. Galvin, D. Layne Coppock, and Paul W.

Leslie, Diet, Nutrition, and the Pastoral Strategy

Gretel H. Pelto, Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico

Part III. Why Do We Eat What We Eat?

Explaining Foodways: Materialist Approaches

Marvin Harris, India's Sacred Cow

Michael Harner, The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice

Timothy Johns, Well-Grounded Diet

Explaining Foodways: Ideology, Symbolism, and Social Power

C. Paige Gutierrez, The Social and Symbolic Uses of Ethnic/ Regional Foodways: Cajuns and Crawfish in South Louisiana

Mary J. Weismantel, The Children Cry for Bread: Hegemony and the Transformation of Consumption

Anne Allison, Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch- Box as Ideological State ApparatusConrad P. Kottak, Rituals at McDonald's

Adapting Foods to People and People to Foods

Darna L. Dufour, A Closer Look at the Nutritional Implications of Bitter Cassava Use

Solomon H. Katz, M. L. Hediger, and L. A. Valleroy, Traditional Maize Processing Techniques in the New World

Norman Kretchmer, Genetic Variability and Lactose Tolerance

Barry Bogin, The Tall and the Short of It

Food as Medicine

E. N. Anderson, Chinese Nutritional Therapy

Jill Dubisch, You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Foods Movement

Part IV. Too Little and Too Much: Nutrition Problems in the Contemporary World

Undernutrition: Counting, Classifying, and Consequences

David L. Pelletier, The Potentiating Effects of Malnutrition on Child Mortality: Epidemiologic Evidence and Policy Implications

Adolfo Chávez, Celia Martínez, and Beatriz Soberanes, The Effect of Malnutrition on Human Development: A 24-Year Study of Well-Nourished and Malnourished Children Living in a Poor Mexican Village

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Iron Deficiency

Reynaldo Martorell, Body Size, Adaptation, and Function

Dietary “Delocalization” and Development

Gretel H. Pelto and Pertti J. Pelto, Diet and Delocalization: Dietary Changes Since 1750

Sidney W. Mintz, Time, Sugar, and SweetnessBernard Nietschmann, When the Turtle Collapses, the World Ends

Debbie Mack, Food for All

Biocultural Perspectives on Breastfeeding

Gretel Pelto, Perpectives on Infant Feeding: Decision-Making and Ecology

Katherine A. Dettwyler, More Than Nutrition: Breastfeeding in Urban Mali

Nancy E. Levine, Women's Work and Infant Feeding: A Case from Rural Nepal

Undernutrition, Overnutrition, and Hunger in Lands of Plenty

Janet M. Finchen, Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States: Some Observations on Their Social and Cultural Context

Peter J. Brown and Melvin Konner, An Anthropological Perspective on Obesity

Malcolm Gladwell, The Pima Paradox

Appendix A: Current U.S. RDAs

Appendix B: Some Principles: Nutrition ABCs, Measurement, and Classification

Index