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Shipibo food categorization and preference: relationships between indigenous and Western dietary concepts
American anthropologist • 88 (3) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 647-658
By: Behrens, Clifford A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper examines the Shipibo conceptualization of foods and their ideas about what constitutes an acceptable diet. Statistical analysis of Shipibo food preferences independently corroborates the Shipibo ethno-classification of foods, collected from key-informant interviews, and suggest that the principles they use to classify foods are the same principles used to organize their food preferences. Further examination of the nutritional composition of Shipibo food categories reveals that their dietary concepts are consistent with Western notions of maintaining health and growth (p. 647).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nutrition
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Diet
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shipibo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Juen 1980-Aug. 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clifford A. Behrens
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 656-658)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shipibo-Conibo Indians