..".contains fascinating material on the social, political,
nutritional, and evolutionary aspects of human food
choice...Scholars and students in food studies will find Consuming
the Inedible useful for its variety of approaches to 'unusual'
eating practices, and several of the chapters should also find
their way onto reading lists for courses in the anthropology of
food." . JRAI
Throughout the world, everyday, millions of people eat earth,
clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like
these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary
manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors,
utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological
and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously
comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded
as inedible by most Westerners.
This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists
and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological
information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across
a diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys
scientific and local views about the consequences--biological,
mineral, social or spiritual--of these food practices, and probes
to what extent we can generalize about them.
Jeremy M. MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology, C. Jeya Henry
is Professor of Nutrition and Helen M. Macbeth is an Honorary
Research Fellow in Anthropology, all at Oxford Brookes
University."
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