Bush Tucker, Shop Tucker: Production, Consumption, and Diet at an Aboriginal Outstation

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 98-117

  Scelza, Brooke A ^a   Bird, Douglas W ^b   Bliege Bird, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboriginal Australia; diet; hunting; mixed economy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DIET; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; CULTURE; DIET; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84892522135     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2013.772513     Document Type: Article

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