Food, Obesity and Eating Posts
Posted by dlende on September 2, 2008
So I am back teaching. This semester I have an intensive qualitative methods course after teaching medical anthropology in the spring. I am planning to have several assignments revolve around the issue of food, health and eating. So the list below is meant first for my methods students. But I also thought some of you other folks might like a refresher on what got posted last spring. Hopefully the categories will help you find what interests you most…
My Main Pieces
Ethnography and the Everyday: Knapp’s Appetites
Comfort Food and Social Stress
Culture
Culture and Inequality in the Obesity Debate
The Family Dinner Deconstructed
Interactions
On the Causes of Obesity: Common Sense or Interacting Systems
Diet, Weight and Health Round Up
Live Healthy, Turn On Your Genes
“Willpower” and Effort
Tightening Your Belt on Your Mind
Glucose, Self Control and Evolution
General Biology
Human Biology and Models for Obesity
Obesity: Mortality, Activity and More
Obesity and Some Behavioral Biology
Red Meat, Neandertals Were Meant to Eat It
Biological Mechanisms
Calories Not Diets « Neuroanthropology said
[...] Lifestyles can be considered anthropologies, not individuals or cultures. And anthropologies of food and eating require the development of a whole range of analyses. [...]
Death Becomes Us « Neuroanthropology said
[...] the integrated dimensions of post-traumatic stress disorder to examining different components of food, obesity and eating and understanding the complexities of video games and other modern [...]
Fostering Fat « Neuroanthropology said
[...] those who want a little anthropology, you can go to the Food, Obesity and Eating page, which rounded up a lot of the writing I did on this early on. For some relevant pieces, go [...]