Anthropology of Food

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• Psychologists Explain The Benefits Of Baking For Other People -- The Huffington Post (25 July 2017)
  
  
• Anthropologists Study the Genesis of Reciprocity in Food Sharing -- Science Daily (20 August 2013)
  
  
• A woman wonders about her husband’s food-sharing habits -- Carolyn Hax, The Washington Post (18 February 2013)
  
  
• Apes Have Food, Will Share For A Social Payoff -- NPR (03 January 2013)
  
  
• Bonobos Share with Strangers -- PLoS ONE (02 January 2013)
  
  
• Sharing a fake steak the next food fad -- Rachel Wells, The Canberra Times (2 January 2013)
  
  

• Enloe, James G. Hunter-Gatherer Food Sharing: Social and Economic Interactions, in Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology, Ed. by George M. Crothers. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No.31, Southern Illinois University, 2004
  
  
• Food Sharing Project
  
  
• Gurven, Michael. To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2004) 27, 543–583.
  
  
• How did food sharing start? -- Evoanth (19 April 2012)
  
  
• Jung, L. Shannon. Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment. Fortress, 2006.
  
  
• Kaplan, Hillard, and Michael Gurven. The Natural History of Human Food Sharing and Cooperation: A Review and a New Multi-Individual Approach to the Negotiation of Norms. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 2001.
  
  
• Marlowe, Frank W. What Explains Hadza Food Sharing? Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 23,69–88, 2004.
  
  
• Miller, Lisa, Paul Rozin, and Alan Page Fiske. Food sharing and feeding another person
  suggest intimacy; two studies of American college students. European Journal of Social Psychology
  European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 423±436, 1998.
  
  
• Stevens, J.R. and I.C. Gilby. 2004. A conceptual framework for non-kin food sharing. Animal Behavior 67: 603-614
  
  
• Stirrat, Michael, Michael Gumert, and David Perrit. The Effect of Attractiveness on Food Sharing Preferences in human Mating Market. Evolutionary Psychology, 9(1): 79-91, www.epjournal.net – 2011.
  
  Why do people and other primates share food? -- Matt Walker, BBCNature (11 July 2011)
  
  

• Whitehead, Harriet. Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. University of Michigan Press, 2000.