2023_24
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A 
english 
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2020)
 Subjects
  DIET, HEALTH AND CULTURE
   Sources of information
Basic

Tema 1. Alimentació, cultura i salut

  • FERREIRA, F.R. et al. Biopower and biopolitics in the field of Food and Nutrition. Revista de Nutrição, v. 28, p. 109-119, 2015. 
  • COVENEY, J. “Foucault, discourse, power and the subject” i “The governmentality of modern nutrition”, Food, morals and meaning, Londres, Routledge, 2ª ed. 2006. 
  • COUNIHAN, C. “Mexicanas’ Food Voice and Differential Consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, COUNIHAN, C.; VAN STERIK, P. (ed). Food and culture: a Reader, New York, Routledge, 2013.pp: 173-186.  
  • DELORMIER, T. et al. Food and eating as social practice –understanding eating patterns as social phenomena and implications for public health. Sociology of health & Illness, 2009, 31 (2): 215-228.  
  • FISCHLER, C. “Is sharing meals a thing of the Past?, FISCHLER, C. (ed). Selective Eating. Paris, Odile Jacob, 2015. 
  • GIARD, L. “Hacer de comer”, DE CERTAU, M. La invención de lo cotidiano. 2. Habitar, cocinar, México, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2006. 
  • HERRERA, P. Cap. 1: “Modernidad alimentaria. Intentos de conceptualización”, Del comer al nutrir. La ignorancia ilustrada del comensal moderno. Madrid, Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2010.
  • LEIN, M.; NERLICH, B. “The polítics of food: an introduction”. LEIN, M.; NERLICH, B (ed.) The polítics of food. Oxford: Berg. 2004. 
  • LUPTON, D. cap 1: "Theoretical Perspectives on Food and Eating", Food, the body and the self, SAGE Publications, Londres, 1996.
  • PERAFAN, AL; MARTÍNEZ, W.A. Biopoder, desarrollo y alimentación en El Rosal, Cauca (Colombia), Rev. Colomb. Soc., 2016, 39(2), 183-201. 
  • POULAIN, JP. Las grandes Corrientes socioantropológicas y su reencuentro con el “hecho alimentario”, en Poulain, JP: Sociologías de la alimentación, Barcelona: UOC, 2019. 
  • RAMOS, G. (20015) “El acceso a la alimentación: el debate sobre los desiertos alimentarios” Investigación & Desarrollo vol. 23, n° 2. 
  • SOBAL, J.; MAURER. D. “Food, Eating and Nutrition as Social Problems”, MAURER; D;. SOBAL, J. (eds.) Eating Agendas. New York: Aldine de Gruytier, 1995. 
  • WICKS, D. “Human, Food, ad other animals: The vegetarian Option”, GERMOV, J.; WILLIAMS, L. (eds.) A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 

 Tema 2. Controvèrsies alimentàries: subjectes, pràctiques i discursos:

. BLUM, L. et al. Community Assessment of Natural Food Sources of Vitamin A - Guidelines for a Ethnographic Protocol. Boston: International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries (INFDC), 1997.  

  • BOURDIEUR, F. Socio-anthropological investigation related to the acceptability of Plumpy'nut in Cambodia, Montpellier: IRD, 2009. 
  • CLAASEN, N. et al. Applying a Transdisciplinary Mixed Methods Research Design to Explore Sustainable Diets in Rural South Africa, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2015, 14: 69-85.
  • DIAZ-CORDOBA, D. Novedades metodológicas aplicadas a la antropología alimentaria: modelos basados en agentes y redes sociales, Salud Colectiva, 2016;12(4):635-650. 
  • DUFOUR, et al. Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • FIELDHOUSE, P. “Biocultural perspective on Nutrition”, Food & Nutrition: Customs and Culture, Londres, Chapman & Hall, 1995 
  • FREEDMAN, I. Cultural specificity in food choice. The case of ethnography in Japan, Appetite, 96 (2016) 138-146. 
  • HUBERT, A.: “Qualitative Research in the Anthropologie of food: A comprehensive/Quantitative Approach”, MACBETH, H. i MAcCLANCY, J (eds.): Researching food habits. Methods and Problems, Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2004. 
  • KHARE, R. Food as nutrition and culture: Notes towards an anthropological methodology, Social Science Information, 1980, 19 (3), 519-542. 
  • MESSER, E. “Globalización y dieta: significados, cultura y consecuencias en la nutrición, BERTRÁN, M. i ARROYO, P.: Antropología y Nutrición, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, 2006. 
  • MILLER, J; DEUTSCH, J. “Observational Methods in Food Studies Research: Ethnography and Narratives”, a MILLER, J; DEUTSCH, J. Food Studies. An Introduction to Research Methods, Oxford, Berg, 2009.  
  • MAcCLANCY, J. i MACBETH, H: “How to do Anthropologies of food”, MACBETH, H. i MAcCLANCY, J (eds.): Researching food habits. Methods and Problems, Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2004. 
  • MURCOTT, A. “A Burgeoning Field: Introduction to The Handbook of Food Research” MURCOTT, A. et al. The Handbook of Food Research, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • PASARIN, L. et al. “Etnografía y alimentación: practicas “rápidas” para una intervención comunitaria”, KULA. Antropólogos del Atlántico Sur, 10: 20-27. 2014.
  • PELTO et al: (eds.): Research methods in Nutritional Anthropology, Tokyo, United Nation University, 1989.
  • TUMILOWICZ, A. NEUFELD, L, PELTO. G. Using ethnography in implementation research to improve nutrition interventions in populations, Matern Child Nutr. 2015 Dec; 11(Suppl Suppl 3): 55–72.

 Tema 3. La medicalització de l’alimentació i del cos 

(I)

  • AVAKIAN, A.V; HABER, B. “Feminist food Studies: A brief History”. From Betty Crokers to Feminist Food Studies. Amherst, University form Massachussets Press, 2005.http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=umpress_fbc  
  • BORDO, S. “Not Just “a White Girl’s Thing”: The Changing Face of Food and Body Image Problems”, COUNIHAN, C.; VAN STERIK, P. (ed). Food and culture: a Reader, New York, Routledge, 2013.pp: 264-275. 
  • DARMON, M. “Introduction”. Devenir anorexique: Une approche sociològiques. Paris: La Découverte, 2003. 
  • FALBE, J.L; NESTLE, M. “The politics of Government Dietary Advice”, a en GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L (eds): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • GERMOV, J.; WILLIAMS, L. : “Construction de Female Body: Dieting, The Thin Ideal and Body Acceptance”, GERMOV, J. y WILLIAMS, L. (eds): A sociology of food and nutrition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009. 
  • GRACIA, M.; COMELLES, J.M. (eds.) Cap. “Paradojas”, No Comerás. Narrativas sobre comida, cuerpo y género en el nuevo milenio, Barcelona, Icaria, 2007. 
  • GREMILLION, H. “The cultural Politics of Body Size”, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2005. 34:13–32. 
  • GOOLDIN, S. (2008) Being Anorexic. Hunger, Subjectivity, and Embodied Morality, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 274-296.
  • GREMILLION, H. Feeding Anorexia. Gender and power at a treatment Center. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 
  • MORENO, JL. “Mercado de trabajo y trastornos alimentarios: las condiciones morales y políticas de la resistencia”, Dilemata, 2013, 12: 143-169. 
  • LANG, T. i HEASMAN, M. “Diet and health: Diseases and Food” i “Policy responses to diet and disease”, Food wars, Londres: Earthscan, 2006. 
  • MALSON, H; NASSER, M. “At risk by reason of gender”, NASSER, M. Et al. (ed). The Female Body in Mind. London: Routledge, 2007. 
  • MCLEAN, A. The intersection of gender and food studies, ALBALA, K. International Handbook of Food Studies Routledge, Londres, 2013. 
  • O’CONNOR, R. “De-medicalization Anorexia: Opening a New Dialogue”. COUNIHAN, C.; VAN STERIK, P. (ed). Food and culture: a Reader, New York, Routledge, 2013, pp: 276-283. 
  • PARASECOLI, F. “Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men’s Fitness Magazines”, COUNIHAN, C.; VAN STERIK, P. (ed). Food and culture: a Reader, New York, Routledge, 2013.pp: 264-275. 
  • PETERSEN, A: “The body in question: an introduction”, The body in question., Londres, Routledge, 2007 
  • TURNER, B.S: "The discourse of diet", FEATHERSTONE, M; HEPWORTH, M; TURNER, B (eds.): The body. Social Process and Cultural Theory, Londres, SAGE Publications, reimp. 1999. 
  • SANCHEZ, M.J “La anorexia nerviosa en las ciencias sociales: estado de la cuestión”, Clepsydra, 2008, 7: 93-112. 

  (II) 

  • AGUIRRE, P.: “Estrategias de consumo que fracasan al triunfar: la obesidad de los pobres en Argentina”, en GRACIA, M. y MILLÁN, A (coords): Alimentación, salud y cultura: enfoques antropológicos, Trabajo Social y Salud, nº 51, julio 2005. 
  • CONTRERAS, J; GRACIA, M. La prevención de la obesidad en España: una lectura crítica desde la antropología. ETNICEX, 4: 45-61. 
  • DIAZ-MENDEZ, C. El tratamiento institucional de la alimentación: un análisis sobre la intervención contra la obesidad. Papers. 2012, 97, 2: 371-384. 
  • GREENHALGH, S. Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat, American Ethnologist, vol.39, pp.471-487, 2012. 
  • Gracia-Arnaiz, M. (2022). A matter of weight? Anti-obesity strategies in Spain, in Gard, M. Powell, D, & Tenorio, J. (eds) Handbook of Critical Obesity Studie Londres: Routledge
  • GUTHMAN, J. DEPUIS, M. “Embodying neoliberalism: economy, culture and the politics of fat”, Environment and Planning: Society and Space, 2006, 24,: 427-448. 
  • HERRERA, P. “La obesidad, la enfermedad del desarrollo”. Panorama Social, 14, 2014, pp: 63-76. 
  • JULIER, A. “The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All”, COUNIHAN, C.; VAN STERIK, P. (ed). Food and culture: a Reader, New York, Routledge, 2013, pp: 546-562. 
  • LANG, T. i RAYNER, G. “Overcoming policy cacophony on obesity: an ecological public health framework for policymakers”, Obesity Reviews, 8, 2007, (Suppl. 1): 165–181. 
  • LINDSAY, J. Healthy living guidelines and the disconnect with everyday life, Critical Public Health, 2010, pp. 475-487 
  • LUQUE, E. “La obesidad, más allá del consumidor: raíces estructurales de los entornos alimentarios”, en Díaz, C. y Gómez, C. Alimentación, consumo y salud, Barcelona, Fundació “La Caixa”, 2008. 
  • MOFFAT, T. The childhood epidemic obesity: health crisis or social construcción? Medical Anthropology Quaterly, 2010, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 1–21. 
  • POULAIN, J.P.: “Obestiy and the medicalization of everyday food cosumption” Sociology of food, Londres: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 81-111.
  • SAGUY, A.C. i RILEY, W.C.: “Weighing both sides: morality, mortality, and framing contests over obesity”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2005, 30 (5): 869-921. 
  • WELCH, R. et The medicalisation of food pedagogies in primary schools and popular culture: A case for awakening subjugated knowledges. Discourse, 33 (5), 713-728, 2012. 

 Tema 4. Desigualtat, seguretat alimentaria  i precarització 

  • BORCH, A. AND KJAERNS, U. “Food security and food insecurity in Europe: An analysis of the academic discourse (1975-2013)”, Appetite, 2016, Vol. 103, pp. 137-147. 
  • CAPLAN, P. “Big society or broken society? Food banks in the UK”, Anthropology Today, 2016, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 5-9.
  • DÍAZ-MÉNDEZ, C-, GARCÍA-ESPEJO, I., OTERO-ESTÉVEZ, S. "Discursos sobre la escasez: estrategias de gestión de la privación alimentaria en tiempos de crisis."Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, 2018, 40. 
  • FITCHEN, J.M. « Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty in the Contemporary United States », Counihan, C. & Van Esterik, (eds). Food and culture. A Reader, New York: Routledge, 2013, pp: 384-401.1997 
  • GONZALEZ CHAVEZ, H. “La gobernanza mundial y los debates sobre la seguridad alimentaria”, Desacatos, 2007, 25, pp. 7-20. 
  • Gracia-Arnaiz, M (2022). The precarization of daily life in Spain: Austerity, social policy and food insecurity, Appetite, vol.171 (1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105906
  • LAMBIE-MUMFORD, H. Hungry Britain: The Rise of Food Charity, Bristol: Policy Press. 2017. 
  • MARCHIONE, T J. MESSER, E. Food Aid and the World Hunger Solution: Why the U.S. Should Use a Human Rights Approach. Food and Foodways, 2010, 18:10-27. 
  • MARIANO, L. “Sobre la autoridad y la representación etnográfica del sufrimiento”, Las hambres de la región Cho’rti’ del Oriente de Guatemala. Grupo 9 Universidades. 2014. 
  • MCINTOSH, W.L. World hunger as a social problem MAURER; D;. SOBAL, J. (eds.) Eating Agendas. New York: Aldine de Gruytier. 1996 
  • MESSER, E.; COHEN, M.J “Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization”, Food, Culture & Society, 2007, 10:2, 297-315 
  • PELTO, H. y PELTO, P: “Dieta y deslocalizacón: cambios desde 1750”, ROTBERG, R y RABB, Th. (comps.): El hambre en la historia, Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1990. 
  • POTTIER, J. “Observer, Critic, Activist: Anthropological Encounters with Food Security, KLEIN, J. WATSON, J. The handbook of food and Antrhopology, Londres: Bloomsbury, 2016.
  • RICHES, G. “Alimentos desechados para persones que padecen hambre: caridad corporativa alimentaria, solidaridad crítica y derecho a la alimentación”, a Escajedo, L. et al (eds). Derecho a una alimentación adecuada y despilfarro alimentario, Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanc. 2018: 61-88. 
  • RUITERS, M. WILDSCHUTT, A. Food insecurity in South Africa: Where does gender matter? Agenda, 2010, 24:86, 8-24. 
  • SCHEPER- HUGHES, N: "Delírio de fome", Muerte sin llanto, Barcelona, Ariel, 1997 
  • TARASUK, V ET AL AL. "Food banks, welfare, and food insecurity in Canada", British Food Journal, 2014, 116 (9):1405-1417. 
  • TAUSSIG, M. Nutrition, Development, and Foreign Aid: A Case Study of U.S.-Directed Health Care in a Colombian Plantation Zone. International Journal of Health Service, 1978. 8(1): 101-121.
  • VERTHEIN, U. Precarización social y alimentación. Los comedores sociales. Barcelona: UOC. 2018.
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