Consuming the inedible
Subtitle: neglected dimensions of food choice
By: edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry, and Helen Macbeth.
Contributors: MacClancy, Jeremy.; Henry, C. J. K.; Macbeth, Helen M.
Series: The anthropology of food and nutrition -- v. 6
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781845453534
Subjects: Food habits; Food preferences; Diet; Nutrition; Food Habits -- ethnology; Anthropology -- methods; Cultural Characteristics; Diet; Food Preferences -- ethnology; Pica -- ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evidence for the consumption of the inedible : who, what, when, where and why? / Sera L.Young; title: Consuming the inedible : pica behaviour / Carmen Strungaru; title: The concepts of food and non-food : perspectives from Spain / Isabel González Turmo; title: Food definitions and boundaries : eating constraints and human identities / Ellen Messer; title: A vile habit? the potential biological consequences of geophagia, with special attention to iron / Sera L. Young; title: The discovery of human zinc deficiency : a reflective journey back in time / Ananda S. Prasad; title: Geophagia and human nutrition / Peter Hooda and Jeya Henry; title: Consumption of materials with low nutritional value and bioactive properties : non-human primates vs. humans / Sabrina Krief; title: Lime as the key element : a 'non-food' in food for subsistence / Ricardo Ávila, Martín Tena and Peter Hubbard; title: Salt as a 'non-food': to what extent do gustatory perceptions determine non-food vs. food choices? / Claude Marcel Hladik; title: Non-food food during famine : the Athens famine survivor project / Antonia-Leda Matalas and Louis E. Grivetti; title: Eating garbage : socially marginal food provisioning practices / Rachel Black; title: Eating cat in the north of Spain in the early twentieth century / F. Xavier Medina; title: Insects : forgotten and rediscovered as food. entomophagy among the Eipo, highlands of West New Guinea, and in other traditional societies / Wulf Schiefenhövel and Paul Blum; title: Eating snot : socially unacceptable but common. why? / María Jesús Portalatín; title: Cannibalism : no myth, but why so rare? / Helen Macbeth, Schiefenhövel, and Paul Collinson; title: From edible to inedible : social construction, family socialisation, and upbringing / Luis Cantarero; title: The use of waste products in the fermentation of alcoholic beverages / Rodolfo Fernández and Daria Deraga.