This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work is to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore the methods.

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Publisher

Berghahn Books

Year

2017

Print ISBN

9781789205244, 9781785332890

eBook ISBN

9781785332906

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Agricultural Public Policy

Index

Social Sciences

CHAPTER 

1

The

Anthropology 

of

Food 

and

Food 

Anthropology

A

Sociocultural 

Perspective

Geraldine 

Moreno-Black



Method 

is

about 

choice. 

—H. 

Russell 

Bernard, 

Handbook 

of

Methods 

in

Cultural 

Anthropology

Another 

nice 

thing 

about 

methods 

is

that 

disciplines 

cannot 

own

them.

—H. 

Russell 

Bernard, 

Handbook 

of

Methods 

in

Cultural 

Anthropology

Introduction

Food 

as

a

topic 

of

study 

has

deep 

roots 

and

a

long 

history 

in

anthropology; 

some 

suggest 

it

is

probably 

as

old

as

the

discipline 

itself 

(Mintz 

and

Dubois 

2002; 

Murcott 

1998; 

Ulijaszek 

and

Strickland 

1993). 

Food 

represents 

an

integral 

part 

of

human 

culture, 

livelihood, 

and

biology, 

so

the

study 

of

food 

has

relevance 

for

all

subﬁelds 

of

anthropology—sociocultural 

anthropology, 

biological 

anthropology, 

archaeol-

ogy, 

and

linguistics. 

During 

past 

decades, 

the

development 

of

food- 

and

nutrition-

focused 

scholarship 

in

anthropology 

has

raised 

fundamental 

challenges 

to

the

way

many 

anthropologists 

formulate 

hypotheses, 

collect 

and

analyze 

data, 

and

develop 

theories. 

In

this 

chapter, 

I

present 

an

overview 

of

sociocultural 

anthro-

pology 

methods 

as

a

way

to

introduce 

more 

speciﬁc 

sections 

on

what 

methods 

cultural 

anthropologists 

employ 

to

understand 

food 

use

and

how

they 

“work” 

within 

a

food 

and

nutrition 

framework.

FOOD CULTURE
Contents
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set
Introduction to Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food Studies
Research Ethics in Food Studies
SECTION IV. Socio-Cultural Approaches
CHAPTER 1. The Anthropology of Food and Food Anthropology
CHAPTER 2. Interviewing Epistemologies
CHAPTER 3. Studying Body Image and Food Consumption Practices
CHAPTER 4. Visual Anthropology Methods
CHAPTER 5. On the Lookout
CHAPTER 6. Participant-Observation and Interviewing Techniques
Chapter 7. Focus Groups in Qualitative or Mixed-Methods Research
CHAPTER 8. Studying Food and Culture
SECTION V. Linguistics and Food Talk
CHAPTER 9. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Food Research Methods
CHAPTER 10. Food Talk
CHAPTER 11. An Introduction to Cultural Domain Analysis in Food Research
CHAPTER 12. Food and Text(ual) Analysis
CHAPTER 13. Analysis of Historic Primary Sources
SECTION VI. Food Studies
CHAPTER 14. Introduction to Food Studies Methods
CHAPTER 15. Meaning-Centered Research in Food Studies
CHAPTER 16. Food and Place
CHAPTER 17. Sensory Ethnography
CHAPTER 18. Methods for Examining Food Value Chains in Conventional and Alternative Trade
CHAPTER 19. The Single Food Approach
Index

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