Food, ecology, and culture : readings in the anthropology of dietary practices / edited by J. R. K. Robson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robson, John R. K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits.

Primitive societies--Food.

Primitive societies.

Physical Description:

ix, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Gordon and Breach, 1980.

Contents:

Robson, J. R. K. and Yen, D. E. Some nutritional aspects of the Philippine Tasaday diet.

Schlegel, S. A. and Guthrie, H. A. Diet and the Tiruray shift from swidden to plow farming.

Townsend, P. K. New Guinea sago gatherers.

Newman, J. L. Dimensions of Sandawe diet.- Wright-St. Clair, R. E. Diet of the Maoris of New Zealand.

Waldmann, E. The ecology of the nutrition of the Bapedi, Sekhukuniland.

McKay, D. A. Food, illness, and folk medicine: insights from Ulu Trengganu, West Malaysia.

Wilson, C. S. Food taboos of childbirth: the Malay example.- Lippe-Stokes, S. Eskimo story-knife tales: reflections of change in food habits.

Simoons, F. J. The determinants of dairying and milk use in the Old World.

Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances at puberty and during menstruation in Tamilnad.

Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances of pregnant women in Tamilnad.

Ferro-Luzzi, G. E. Food avoidances during the puerperium and lactation in Tamilnad.

Simoons, F. J. The

Notes:

Articles first published in Ecology of food and nutrition.

Includes index.

OCLC:

5354596