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Is the ethnographic approach a meaningful approximation to cultural understanding in the field of nutrition and dietetics?

Sayda Milena Pico-Fonseca

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Abstract

Addressing nutritional issues requires contributions from other disciplines, including anthropology. Cover nutrition from this perspective makes it possible to take up the analysis of cultures in terms of socially determined and meaningful human activities. For this reason, the anthropology of nutrition arises, which focuses on understanding the relationship between eating habits and nutrition. Based on the above, these practices are understood as cultural phenomena, since they encompass material, historical and contextual conditions, customs, habits and rituals that go beyond the process of ingesting food.

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Pico-Fonseca, S. M. (2022). Is the ethnographic approach a meaningful approximation to cultural understanding in the field of nutrition and dietetics?. Duazary, 19(3), 152–154. https://doi.org/10.21676/2389783X.4841

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Vol. 19 No. 3 (2022): (July - September

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