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Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice
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- Creator
- edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry, and Helen Macbeth
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781845453534, 1845453530
- OCLC
- ocn156834465
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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