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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Considering the Inedible, Consuming the Ineffable
1: Evidence for the Consumption of the Inedible: Who, What, When, Where and Why?
2: Consuming the Inedible: Pica Behaviour
3: The Concepts of Food and Non-food: Perspectives from Spain
4: Food Definitions and Boundaries: Eating Constraints and Human Identities
5: A Vile Habit? The Potential Biological Consequences of Geophagia, with Special Attention to Iron
6: The Discovery of Human Zinc Deficiency: A Reflective Journey Back in Time
7: Geophagia and Human Nutrition
8: Consumption of Materials with Low Nutritional Value and Bioactive Properties: Non-human Primates vs Humans
9: Lime as the Key Element: A ‘Non-food’ in Food for Subsistence
10: Salt as a ‘Non-food’: To What Extent Do Gustatory Perceptions Determine Non-food vs Food Choices?
11: Non-food Food during Famine: The Athens Famine Survivor Project
12: Eating Garbage: Socially Marginal Food Provisioning Practices
13: Eating Cat in the North of Spain in the Early Twentieth Century
14: Insects: Forgotten and Rediscovered as Food. Entomophagy among the Eipo, Highlands of West New Guinea, and in Other Traditional Societies
15: Eating Snot: Socially Unacceptable but Common. Why?
16: Cannibalism: No Myth, but Why So Rare?
17: From Edible to Inedible: Social Construction, Family Socialisation and Upbringing
18: The Use of Waste Products in the Fermentation of Alcoholic Beverages
Afterword: Earthy Realism: Geophagia in Literature and Art
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