Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

by Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184545684X
• ISBN13: 9781845456849
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"