Consuming the Inedible

Consuming the Inedible
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781845456849
ISBN-13 : 184545684X
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Book Synopsis Consuming the Inedible by : Jeremy M. MacClancy

Download or read book Consuming the Inedible written by Jeremy M. MacClancy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.


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