Food, Ecology and Culture

Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

John R.K. Robson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317949732
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 1980. The following papers represent a selection of studies which provide such an insight into human food behavior during development. It is hoped that readers will be encouraged to participate in this new quest for knowledge. The time has surely come to document carefully the food practices of different societies. The authors' hope there will be similar and parallel attempts to evaluate the health and disease status so that the relationships between diet and disease may be clarified.

Index

Aboriginal

Alaskan Eskimos 75

Aborigines

Australian 6, 26, 86

contemporary 1

populations 5

abortion 26, 54, 69

food avoidance 102, 105, 107

abstention

temporary 98

accidents 81

acculturation

Eskimo 79

agatti kirai (Sesbania grandiflora) 107

agricultural practices 9, 19

farming 11

methods 49

modern vii

potential 28

agriculture 52

ahimsa 84, 99, 121

Alaska

Aboriginal Eskimos 75

alcoholic beverages 31, 41, 44, 63

beer 53

liquor 36, 39

alcoholism 81

amino acids 32

Andes 83

Andhra Pradesh 97

anemia 47

animal foods 14, 17, 18, 116

wild viii, 27, 28, 29, 33

animal husbandry 28, 52

animal products 29

anthropology of food ix

arable allotment 49

ascorbic acid 17

ash-pumpkin (Benincasa hispida) 107

dangerous vegetable 114

atherosclerosis 17

attitude

nonmilking 84

avoidance period

food 110

avoidances

by husband during pregnancy 67

fish 101

non-vegetarian foods 101

pineapple 105

puberty and menstruation, Tamilnad 93

ayurvedic doctor 105, 109

baby clinic 49

Badaga 99, 100

bananas 105, 107

cooked 69

Banks, Joseph 35, 36, 44

Bantu 47

agriculturalists 86

lactose malabsorption 88

Bantustans 49

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Some Nutritional Aspects of the Philippine Tasaday Diet
• Diet and the Tiruray Shift from Swidden to Plow Farming
• New Guinea Sago Gatherers
• Dimensions of Sandawe Diet
• Diet of the Maoris of New Zealand
• The Ecology of the Nutrition of the Bapedi, Sekhukuniland
• Food, Illness and Folk Medicine: Insights from Ulu Trengganu, West Malaysia
• Food Taboos of Childbirth: The Malay Example
• Eskimo Story-knife Tales: Reflections of Change in Food Habits
• The Determinants of Dairying and Milk Use in the Old World: Ecological, Physiological, and Cultural
• Food Avoidances at Puberty and Menstruation in Tamilnad
• Food Avoidances of Pregnant Women in Tamilnad
• Food Avoidances during the Puerperium and Lactation in Tamilnad
• The Sacred Cow and the Constitution of India
• INDEX