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The Nature Of Food: Indigenous Dene Foodways And Ontologies In The Era Of Climate Change, David S. Walsh
The Nature Of Food: Indigenous Dene Foodways And Ontologies In The Era Of Climate Change, David S. Walsh
Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and calling for more respectful hunting to demonstrate respectful reciprocity to the caribou, including a community-driven foodways project on caribou conservation and Dene caribou conservation which I co-facilitated in 2011. In these ways the caribou is approached as a person. Dene responses to caribou decline can best be understood by ontological theories of an expanded notion of indigenous personhood. However, I argue these theories are inadequate without …
Nutrition And The Early-Medieval Diet, Kathy L. Pearson
Nutrition And The Early-Medieval Diet, Kathy L. Pearson
History Faculty Publications
The food supply of the temperate lands of early-medieval western Europe, and the ways in which its peoples dealt with the central problem of feeding themselves, has been subjected to a variety of interpretations in recent years. Vern Bullough and Cameron Campbell's study of the medieval diet and female longevity concluded that early-medieval women suffered from iron deficiencies triggered jointly by poor nutrition and frequent childbearing and that these deficiencies contributed substantially to their average early age of death. Ann Hagen's overview of Anglo-Saxon patterns of food production and consumption suggested that most of the early English population routinely lived …
Ariel - Volume 10 Number 2, Edward G. Zurad, Jim O'Brien, Meg Trexler, Eric Singel, Jeffrey Banyas, Al Signorella, Stuart Singer
Ariel - Volume 10 Number 2, Edward G. Zurad, Jim O'Brien, Meg Trexler, Eric Singel, Jeffrey Banyas, Al Signorella, Stuart Singer
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Ariel - Volume 5 Number 6, Alec Gerson, Leo Riordan, Jay D. Amsterdam, Curtis Cummings, Lorraine Mueller, Mark Dembert, Larry Cook, David Mayer, Janet Welsh, Tom Carnwath, Gary Kaskey, Steve Glinka, Robert L. Breckenridge, Jr.
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Nutrition Clinic, Eleanor Jackson, Gertrude Peabody
Nutrition Clinic, Eleanor Jackson, Gertrude Peabody
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A final paper written as part of the completion of a B. S. degree in Home Economics from the University of Maine. Provides a description of a program and statistics from two fourth-grade level classes in Old Town, Maine, public schools. The nutrition clinic provided instruction for eighteen children who were 7% or more underweight, addressing issues of malnutrition.