Ebook: Researching food habits: methods and problems

Introduction: How to do Anthropologies of Food Jeremy / MacClancy and Helen Macbeth -- Anthropology of Food and Pluridisciplinarity / Igor de Garine -- Definitions, Concepts and Methods in the Ethnobotany of Food Plants / Attila T. Szabó -- Qualitative Research in the Anthropology of Food: A Comprehensive Qualitative/Quantitative Approach / Annie Hubert -- "Tell me what you eat and you will tell me who you are": Methodological Notes on the Interaction between Researcher and Informants in the Anthropology of Food / F. Xavier Medina -- Food, Identity, Identification / Jeremy MacClancy -- Doing it Wrong: Why Bother to do Imperfect Research? / Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars -- Methods for Assessing Taste Abilities and Hedonic Responses in Human and Nonhuman Primates / Bruno Simmen, Patrick Pasquet and Claude Marcel Hladik -- Researching Food Preferences: Methods and Problems for Anthropologists / Helen Macbeth and Fiona Mowatt -- Dietary Intake Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Studying Food Intake Frequency: A Macrosurvey Technique for Anthropologists / Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth -- The Concept of Energy Balance and the Quantification of Time Allocation and Energy Expenditure / Patrick Pasquet -- Methods for Obtaining Quantitative Data on Food Habits in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Isabel González Turmo and José Mataix Verdú -- Reconstructing Diets for Compensation for Nuclear Testing in Rongelap, Marshall Islands / Nancy J. Pollock -- Food, Culture, Political and Economic Identity: Revitalising the Food-systems Perspective in the Study of Food-based Identity / Ellen Messer -- Epilogue: Some Final Hints / Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy.;The term 'Anthropology of Food' has become an accepted abbreviation for the study of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition, an increasingly important subdivision of anthropology that encompasses a rich variety of perspectives, academic approaches, theories, and methods. Its multi-disciplinary nature adds to its complexity. This is the first publication to offer guidance for researchers working in this diverse and expanding field of anthropology.