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Continuity and change in Tohono O'odham food systems: implications for dietary interventions
Culture & agriculture : bulletin of the Anthropological Study Group on Agrarian Systems • 30 (1) • Published In 2008 • Pages: 38-46
By: Fazzino, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Tohono O'odham have seen several political and economic shifts since initial contact with the Spanish and later United States governments. These shifts have been accompanied by selective adoption of material goods including foods, food production, and procurement strategies. With the move away from traditional food systems and the adoption of new introduced food items in the O'odham diet, the incidence of both obesity and diabetes seems to have increased among the native population. The questionable efficacy of biomedical intervention in combatting these diseases reinforces the notion that traditional ways including the traditional diet may be more effective in coping with high rates of obesity and illness. There is a sense that traditional foods combined with exercise are important components in living a healthy and long life. There has been a very clear shift or transition in the conceptualization of what constitutes traditional foods across generations. These differences are most striking between young adults and elders, and are discussed in detail in the text of this paper..
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Diet
- Tillage
- Morbidity
- Preventive medicine
- Age stratification
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- O'odham
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-2006
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern Arizona, United States; Northern Sonora, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Fazzino
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91660180
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tohono O'odham Indians