Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Tina Moffat is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her research focuses on child health and nutrition in relation to environmental health and urban ecosystems. She has authored and co-authored numerous scholarly journal publications on child growth and infant feeding in Nepal and nutritional well-being and obesity among North American school-children.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesChapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and NutritionT. Moffat and T. ProwsePART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITIONChapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain EvolutionW. R. Leonard, M. L. Robertson and J. J. SnodgrassChapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the PastS. Pfeiffer and L. HarringtonChapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human EvolutionD. W. SellenPART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSEChapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding PatternsT. L. DuprasChapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96L. A. Sawchuk, E. K. Bryce and S. D. A. BurkePART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITIONChapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and PracticeT. Moffat and E. FinnisChapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien SahelR. E. Casiday, K. R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick and K. KilpatrickPART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASEChapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial RomeT. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli and R. MacchiarelliChapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in BioarchaeologyS. C. Agarwal and B. GlencrossChapter 11. Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North AmericaP. T. KatzmarzykPART V: CONCLUSIONChapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the FutureT. Prowse and T. MoffatContributorsGlossaryIndex

“The editors provide a nice integration of the book material in the conclusion. While the individual chapters do not, for the most part, provide examples of integrative biocultural approaches, the editors skilfully weave them together thematically and in relation to current issues in the conclusion…the book provides a nice sampling of the spectrum of data and approaches that constitute the field, and as such would be useful for a class in nutritional anthropology.”  ·  JRAI“The individual chapters presented in the volume are well written and together detail a broad range of methodological approaches to the topics around which the volume is structured…This edited volume would be of particular interest to advanced graduate students or researchers interested in the specific topics covered by each chapter.”  ·  Medical Anthropology Quarterly "This is a high-quality publication. Many of the chapters are excellent reviews of methods and perspectives in their particular area. The editors have clearly done a good job… There is a strong mix of topics that go well together and are tied together by the first and last chapters."  ·  Alan Goodman, Hampshire College