Full Description
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Introduction
Janet Chrzan
Research Ethics in Food Studies
Sharon Devine and John Brett
PART I: PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Chapter 1. Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods
Ellen Messer
Chapter 2. Identifying and using indicators to assess program effectiveness: Food intake, biomarkers, and nutritional evaluation
Alyson Young and Meredith Marten
Chapter 3. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation
Gretel Pelto
Chapter 4. Methods for Community Health Involvement
David Himelgreen, Sara Arias Steele, and Nancy Romero-Daza
Chapter 5. Understanding Famine and Severe Food Emergencies
Miriam Chaiken
Chapter 6. Food Activism: Researching Engagement, Engaging Research
Joan Gross
Chapter 7. Food Praxis as Method
Penny Van Esterik
PART II: TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYSIS
Chapter 8. Using technology and measurement tools in nutritional anthropology of food studies
John Brett
Chapter 9. Mapping Food and Nutrition Landscapes: GIS Methods for Nutritional Anthropology
Barry Brenton
Chapter 10. Photo-Video Voice
Helen Vallianatos
Chapter 11. Digital Storytelling: Using First-Person Videos about Food in Research and Advocacy
Marty Otanez
Chapter 12. Accessing and Using Secondary Quantitative Data from the Internet
James Wilson and Kristen Borre
Chapter 13. Using Secondary Data in Nutritional Anthropology Research: Enhancing Ethnographic and Formative Research
Kristen Borre and James Wilson
Chapter 14. Designing food insecurity scales from the ground up: An introduction and working example of building and testing food insecurity scales in anthropological research
Craig Hadley and Lesley Jo Weaver
