Consuming the inedible : neglected dimensions of food choice / edited by Jeremy MacClancy, Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth.

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, inter-disciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psycholog...

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Other Authors: MacClancy, Jeremy (Editor), Henry, C. J. K. (Editor), Macbeth, Helen M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Series:Anthropology of food and nutrition ; v. 6.
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