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Nutritional Anthropology Nutritional AnthropologyDATETOPICS AND READINGSJanuary 14.Farb, P. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 3-14. Lee RB. What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources. In: Lee RB, Devore I. (eds.) Man the Hunter, Chicago: Aldine de Gruyter.

30–48.See.(due by Wednesday January 16). (due by the start of class January 28).Additional items for 576:. Harris, M. Foodways: historical overview and theoretical prolegomenon. In: Harris, M.

Nutritional Anthropology Biocultural Perspectives On Food And Nutrition 2nd Edition. Pdf

Ross (eds.) Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 57-90.January 28. Eaton SB, Konner M.

Paleolithic nutrition: a consideration of its nature and current implications. The New England Journal of Medicine, 312(5):283-289. Leonard WR. Food for thought: dietary change was a driving force in human evolution. Scientific American, 287:106-112.Additional items for 576:. Teaford MF, Ungar PS. Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97:1.February 4. (4.8 MB download). Bring yours to class!.Additional items for 576:.Dwyer, J. Concept of nutritional status and its measurement. Himes (ed.) Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status. New York: Wiley-Liss. 5-28.February 11Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition:.

(Due by start of class). Capporael L. Ergotism: The satan loosed in Salem?

Science, 192:21-26. Pelto GH, Goodman AH, Dufour DL. The biocultural perspective in nutritional anthropology.

In: Goodman AH, Dufour DL, Pelto GH. (eds.) Nutritional Anthropology: biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 1-9.Additional items for 576:. Hunter JM. Geophagy in Africa and in the United States: A Culture-Nutrition Hypothesis. Geographical Review, 63:170-195.February 18Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition:.

Katz, S. Food and biocultural evolution: a model for the investigation of modern nutritional problems. Johnston (ed.), Nutritional Anthropology. New York: Alan R.

41-63. Weiss KM. The reluctant calf. Evolutionary Anthropology 14:127–131.Additional items for 576:. Wilson WM, Dufour DL.

Why 'bitter' cassava? Productivity of 'bitter' and 'sweet' cassava in a Tukanoan Indian settlement in the northwest Amazon. Economic Botany, 56:49-57.February 25Writing a Research Paper.March 3: Materialist Approaches, Ideology, Symbolism, and Social Power. RESEARCH PAPER DUE. Farb, P. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 97-161. Harris M 1966. The cultural ecology of India’s sacred cattle. Current Anthropology, 7:51-66.Additional items for 576:. Oths KS. Social status and food preference in southern Brazil.

Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 42:303–324.March 10FIRSTEXAM (NO CLASS MEETING)March 24Variation in Contemporary Food Habits:. Lee RB. What Hunters Do for a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources. In: Lee RB, Devore I. (eds.) Man the Hunter, Chicago: Aldine de Gruyter.

30–48. Johnson, A. Ecological and structural influences on the proportions of wild foods in the diets of two Machiguenga communities. In: Harris, M. Ross (eds.) Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 387-406.Additional items for 576:.March 31Variation in Contemporary Food Habits:.

Pelto GH. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico. In: Harris M, Ross EB (eds.) Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 517-540. (paper reviews), due before class on April 5Additional items for 576:. Pelto GH. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico. In: Harris M, Ross EB (eds.) Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

517-540.April 7. Bindon JR, Gilliland MJ, Dressler WW, Crews DE. A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Obesity and Health in Three Groups of Women: The Mississippi Choctaw, American Samoans, and African Americans.

Collegium Antropologicum, 31:47-54. Brown PJ, Konner M. An anthropological perspective on obesity.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 499: 29-46.Additional items for 576:. Lev-Ran A. Human obesity: an evolutionary approach to understanding our bulging waistline.

Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 17: 347–362.April 14.REVISED PAPER DUE. B indon, J.

Breadfruit, banana, beef, and beer: modernization of the Samoan diet. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 12:49-60.Bindon, J.

An evaluation of the diet of three groups of Samoan adults: modernization and dietary adequacy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 14:105-115.Bindon, J. Taro or rice, plantation or market: dietary choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways, 3:59-78.Bindon, J.R.

Some implications of the diet of children in American Samoa. Collegium Anthropologicum, 18:7-15.April 21Student Presentations.

Presentations will be listed here.All presentations due prior to the start of class.April 28Student Presentations. Presentations will be listed here.May 5SECOND EXAM:Monday, May 5, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.BOOKS on reserve at library:.

Durham WH. Coevolution: genes, culture, and human diversity. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Farb P, Armelagos G. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Core Concepts In Nutritional Anthropology

Harris M, and Ross EB (eds.). Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Himes JH (ed.). Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status.

New York: Wiley-Liss. Johnston FE (ed.). Nutritional Anthropology. New York: Alan R. Liss. Lee RB, and Devore I (eds.) 1968. Man the Hunter, Chicago: Aldine de Gruyter.

Nutritional Anthropology Oxford

Pelto GH, PJ Pelto, E Messer (eds.). Research methods in nutritional anthropology. Tokyo, Japan: The United Nations University.COURSEDESCRIPTION: This course provides a detailed introduction to the study ofhuman nutrition from an anthropological perspective. Biological,ecological, and social factors influencing diet and nutrition are considered.