Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice

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Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice

edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry, and Helen Macbeth

(The anthropology of food and nutrition, v. 6)

Berghahn Books, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Evidence for the consumption of the inedible : who, what, when, where and why? / Sera L.Young
  • Consuming the inedible : pica behaviour / Carmen Strungaru
  • The concepts of food and non-food : perspectives from Spain / Isabel González Turmo
  • Food definitions and boundaries : eating constraints and human identities / Ellen Messer
  • A vile habit? the potential biological consequences of geophagia, with special attention to iron / Sera L. Young
  • The discovery of human zinc deficiency : a reflective journey back in time / Ananda S. Prasad
  • Geophagia and human nutrition / Peter Hooda and Jeya Henry
  • Consumption of materials with low nutritional value and bioactive properties : non-human primates vs. humans / Sabrina Krief
  • Lime as the key element : a 'non-food' in food for subsistence / Ricardo Ávila, Martín Tena and Peter Hubbard
  • Salt as a 'non-food': to what extent do gustatory perceptions determine non-food vs. food choices? / Claude Marcel Hladik
  • Non-food food during famine : the Athens famine survivor project / Antonia-Leda Matalas and Louis E. Grivetti
  • Eating garbage : socially marginal food provisioning practices / Rachel Black
  • Eating cat in the north of Spain in the early twentieth century / F. Xavier Medina
  • 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
  • Eating snot : socially unacceptable but common. why? / María Jesús Portalatín
  • Cannibalism : no myth, but why so rare? / Helen Macbeth, Schiefenhövel, and Paul Collinson
  • From edible to inedible : social construction, family socialisation, and upbringing / Luis Cantarero
  • The use of waste products in the fermentation of alcoholic beverages / Rodolfo Fernández and Daria Deraga

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