Ancestral Appetites

Author : Kristen J. Gremillion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139498883

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Ancestral Appetites by Kristen J. Gremillion Pdf

This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essentially strategies for meeting basic nutritional needs developed over millions of years. Humans are designed by evolution to adjust our feeding behaviour and food technology to meet the demands of a wide range of environments through a combination of social and experiential learning. In this book, Kristen J. Gremillion demonstrates how these evolutionary processes have shaped the diversification of human diet over several million years of prehistory. She draws on evidence extracted from the material remains that provide the only direct evidence of how people procured, prepared, presented and consumed food in prehistoric times.

Author : Christopher Cumo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000176094

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Ancestral Diets and Nutrition by Christopher Cumo Pdf

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition supplies dietary advice based on the study of prehuman and human populations worldwide over the last two million years. This thorough, accessible book uses prehistory and history as a laboratory for testing the health effects of various foods. It examines all food groups by drawing evidence from skeletons and their teeth, middens, and coprolites along with written records where they exist to determine peoples’ health and diet. Fully illustrated and grounded in extensive research, this book enhances knowledge about diet, nutrition, and health. It appeals to practitioners in medicine, nutrition, anthropology, biology, chemistry, economics, and history, and those seeking a clear explanation of what humans have eaten across the ages and what we should eat now. Features: Sixteen chapters examine fat, sweeteners, grains, roots and tubers, fruits, vegetables, and animal and plant sources of protein. Integrates information about diet, nutrition, and health from ancient, medieval, modern and current sources, drawing from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Provides comprehensive coverage based on the study of several hundred sources and the provision of over 2,000 footnotes. Presents practical information to help shape readers’ next meal through recommendations of what to eat and what to avoid.

Author : Robin Hammerman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532546

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Frankenstein and STEAM by Robin Hammerman Pdf

Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of literature, science, and technology. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : William F. Meller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101052556

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Evolution Rx by William F. Meller Pdf

Provocative, science-based, and practical, this guide presents a new way for readers to understand their bodies and promote vibrant health. Countless books and experts have advised adopting the "cave-man diet" that avoids processed foods and refined carbohydrates. But how and what to eat is only the beginning of what human evolution can teach about health. Based on the latest research, Evolution Rx provides readers with an understanding of the underlying science and a practical means to making nutritional and lifestyle changes, from exercise and injury prevention to addressing allergies, heart health, cancer, and more. Dr. Meller, one of the country's pre-eminent practitioners of evolutionary medicine, explores such topics as: ?Why eating more fat can fuel weight loss ?Why humans can't register fullness when eating carbohydrates, and what to do about it ?Why getting more sun leads to better health ?Why not to stretch before exercise ?Why children should be encouraged to get dirty

Author : Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782979487

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture by Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing Pdf

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.

Author : Richard Nikoley
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781614640219

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Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet by Richard Nikoley Pdf

Drawing on evolutionary logic, scientific research, and his own personal experiences, blogger Richard Nikoley of Free the Animal (freetheanimal.com) presents a complete guide to losing weight and fat the natural way. After many frustrating years of trying to lose weight by adhering to mainstream nutritional guidelines, Richard made a radical decision to throw the rules out. Instead of eating whole grains and lean meat, he ate what his body had always craved: animal fat, and lots of it—and the extra weight started falling away. In "Free The Animal: How To Lose Weight & Fat On The Paleo Diet", Richard shares his tips for eating, fasting, and exercising as wild humans did for millenia. Find out how to embrace your primal cravings for nutritionally dense animal fats and fiber-rich plant sources. Learn to stop listening to the "experts" and start tuning in to your body's natural signals. Richard's approach to the Paleo lifestyle will help you lose fat, gain muscle, and unleash the energy of the animal inside you.

Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847141897

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Gothic Vision by Dani Cavallaro Pdf

The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, while also focusing on the recurrence over time of themes of physical and psychological disintegration, spectrality and monstrosity. This is an excellent overview of a genre that is increasingly studied in literature, film, and cultural studies courses.

Author : Nicolaj van der Meulen,Jörg Wiesel,Raphaela Reinmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839430316

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Culinary Turn by Nicolaj van der Meulen,Jörg Wiesel,Raphaela Reinmann Pdf

Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice - in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by crisis of eating behaviour and a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultural technique. This volume investigates the dimensions of a new culinary turn, combining for the very first time contributions from the theory and practice of cooking.

Author : Ria Pal,Andrew Kadlec
Publisher : Pager Publications, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780578410807

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in-Training: Stories from Tomorrow's Physicians by Ria Pal,Andrew Kadlec Pdf

Peer-edited narratives written by medical students chronicling the major milestones of medical school

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000093221574

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The London Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katheryn C. Twiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474290

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The Archaeology of Food by Katheryn C. Twiss Pdf

Surveys the archaeology of food: its methods and its themes (economics, politics, status, identity, gender, ethnicity, ritual, religion).

Author : William T. Lynch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786612380

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Minority Report by William T. Lynch Pdf

In Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, ‘precogs’, who are imaginary individuals capable of seeing the future are relied upon to stop crime, with a consensus report synthesized from two of three precogs. When the protaganist is indicted for a future murder, he suspects a conspiracy and seeks out the “minority report,” detailing the suppressed testimony of the third precog. Science works a lot like this science fiction story. Contrary to the view that scientists in a field all share the same “paradigm,” as Thomas Kuhn famously argued, scientists support different, and competing, research programs. Statements of scientific consensus need to be actively synthesized from the work of different scientists. Not all scientific work will be equally credited by science as a whole. While this system works well enough for most purposes, it is possible for minority views to fail to get the hearing that they deserve. This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in science and technology studies and examining numerous case studies.

Author : R. Charles Weller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319620787

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21st-Century Narratives of World History by R. Charles Weller Pdf

This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.

Author : Michael S. Aronoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489960566

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Sleep and Its Secrets by Michael S. Aronoff Pdf

Author : Monica L. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607325949

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Abundance by Monica L. Smith Pdf

Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of social and economic hierarchies, yet focusing on plenitude enables the understanding of a range of cohesive behaviors that were equally important for the development of social complexity. Our earliest human ancestors were highly mobile hunter-gatherers who sought out places that provided ample food, water, and raw materials. Over time, humans accumulated and displayed an increasing quantity and variety of goods. In households, shrines, tombs, caches, and dumps, archaeologists have discovered large masses of materials that were deliberately gathered, curated, distributed, and discarded by ancient peoples. The volume’s authors draw upon new economic theories to consider the social, ideological, and political implications of human engagement with abundant quantities of resources and physical objects and consider how individual and household engagements with material culture were conditioned by the quest for abundance. Abundance shows that the human propensity for mass consumption is not just the result of modern production capacities but fulfills a longstanding focus on plenitude as both the assurance of well-being and a buffer against uncertainty. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in economics, anthropology, and cultural studies. Contributors: Traci Ardren, Amy Bogaard, Elizabeth Klarich, Abigail Levine, Christopher R. Moore, Tito E. Naranjo, Stacey Pierson, James M. Potter, François G. Richard, Christopher W. Schmidt, Carol Schultze, Payson Sheets, Monica L. Smith, Katheryn C. Twiss, Mark D. Varien, Justin St. P. Walsh, María Nieves Zedeño