Thursday, January 6, 2011

Tracy Prowse is awesome!

Dr. Tracy Prowse, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University and co-editor Dr. Tina Moffat, Associate Professor in the same department, have just published an edited volume: Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective. Looks like a great collection.

Check it:
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and Nutrition
T. Moffat and T. Prowse

PART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITION

Chapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain Evolution
W. R. Leonard, M. L. Robertson and J. J. Snodgrass

Chapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past
S. Pfeiffer and L. Harrington

Chapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution
D. W. Sellen

PART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE

Chapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns
T. L. Dupras

Chapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96
L. A. Sawchuk, E. K. Bryce and S. D. A. Burke

PART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION

Chapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice
T. Moffat and E. Finnis

Chapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel
R. E. Casiday, K. R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick and K. Kilpatrick

PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASE

Chapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome
T. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli and R. Macchiarelli

Chapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in Bioarchaeology
S. C. Agarwal and B. Glencross

Chapter 11. Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North America
P. T. Katzmarzyk

PART V: CONCLUSION

Chapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the Future
T. Prowse and T. Moffat

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a great contribution. This would make for a good edition to our University of Michigan Nutrition and Evolution course's syllabus.

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