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Nutritional anthropology is a field growing in scope and number of practitioners.
It adds another dimension to epidemiological and evaluation studies and can contribute importantly to the design, evaluation, and improvement of interventions. This book admirably fills that need. Its chapters cover anthropological perspectives on nutritional adaptation, fertility, pregnancy, lactation, seasonality, human growth, food consumption, and climatic adaptation. Implicit in anthropological approaches to nutrition is an understanding that problems usually arise from the interaction of hierarchically organized variables that can be identified by a combination of open and guided interviews, conversations, participant observations, and well designed questionnaires. This book will be useful for nutritionists interested in learning anthropological principles and will also serve as a reference text for courses in nutritional anthropology.