Main 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