Core concepts in nutritional anthropology

Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 523-537

  Young, Sera L ^a   Pelto, Gretel H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Anthropology; Biocultural; Ecological model; Emic; Etic; Pica

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942523755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-894-8_25     Document Type: Chapter

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