Coping with uncertainty in food supply /

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Imprint:	Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description:	xiv, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford science publications
Subject:	Food supply -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Congresses. Food habits -- Congresses. Primitive societies -- Food -- Congresses. Food habits. Food supply -- Social aspects. Nutrition -- Social aspects. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/862746

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Other authors / contributors:	Garine, I. de Harrison, G. A. (Geoffrey Ainsworth), 1927- Werner-Reimers-Stiftung Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, France)
ISBN:	0198576439 : $98.00
Notes:	Based on papers presented at a conference held Dec. 13-16, 1982 in Bad Homburg, Germany, sponsored by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, and the Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris. Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Seasonal Variations in Food Supply for Wild Primates
2. Seasonality and Human Population Biology
3. Food, Seasonality, and Human Evolution
4. Food as a Function of Seasonal Environment and Social History
5. Efe Pygmies of Northeast Zaire: Subsistence Strategies in the Ituri Forest
6. Food Supply Uncertainty Among the Aka Pygmies (Lobaye, Central African Republic)
7. Tradition and Change: Problems and Persistence in the Inuit Diet
8. Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: More of Less Security in the Way of Life?
9. Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply Among the Oto and the Twa Living in the Equatorial Flooded Forest near Lake Tumba
10. Coping with Seasonal Fluctuations in Food Among Savanna Populations: The Massa and Mussey of Chad and Cameroon
11. Coping with the Market: Uncertainty and Food Security Among Hausa Peasants
12. Health and Energy Requirements of Nomadic Turkana Pastoralists
13. Seasonality, Climatic Fluctuations, and Food Supplies (Sahelian Nomadic Pastoral Societies)
14. Nutrition and Socio-Economic Strategies in Pastoral Societies in the Middle East with Special Reference to West Afghan Pashtuns
15. How Non-Food Producing Nomads Obtain Their Food: Peripatetic Strategies in Afghanistan
16. Coping with Uncertainty in Food Supply: Case Studies Among the Pastoral and Non-Pastoral Nomads of Western India
17. Central Indian Tribal Societies under Stress of Modern Socio-Economic Pressures: Strategies to Face the Challenge
18. Uncertainties in Food Supply, and Nutritional Deficiencies, in Relation to Economic Conditions in a Village Population of Southern West Bengal, India
19. Food Allocation within the Family: Response to Fluctuating Food Supply and Food Needs
20. A Framework for Analysing Uncertainty in Highland Areas
21. Discussion and Conclusions

Coping with uncertainty in food supply /

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