Food, ecology, and culture
Subtitle: readings in the anthropology of dietary practices
By: edited by J. R. K. Robson.
Contributors: Robson, John R. K.
Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Food habits.; Primitive societies -- Food.
Other titles: Ecology of food and nutrition.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Articles first published in Ecology of food and nutrition.
Table of contents: title: Robson, J. R. K. and Yen, D. E. Some nutritional aspects of the Philippine Tasaday diet.; title: Schlegel, S. A. and Guthrie, H. A. Diet and the Tiruray shift from swidden to plow farming.; title: Townsend, P. K. New Guinea sago gatherers.; title: Newman, J. L. Dimensions of Sandawe diet.; title: Wright-St. Clair, R. E. Diet of the Maoris of New Zealand.; title: Waldmann, E. The ecology of the nutrition of the Bapedi, Sekhukuniland.; title: McKay, D. A. Food, illness, and folk medicine: insights from Ulu Trengganu, West Malaysia.; title: Wilson, C. S. Food taboos of childbirth: the Malay example.; title: Lippe-Stokes, S. Eskimo story-knife tales: reflections of change in food habits.; title: Simoons, F. J. The determinants of dairying and milk use in the Old World.; title: Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances at puberty and during menstruation in Tamilnad.; title: Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances of pregnant women in Tamilnad.; title: Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances during the puerperium and lactation in Tamilnad.; title: Simoons, F. J. The sacred cow and the constitution of India.