TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's autonomous food acquisition in Mexican shantytowns.
AU - Lee, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation grant #0350119 and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Children's independent food-acquisition behaviors have been rarely studied outside of hunter-gatherer contexts, yet millions of children worldwide search, work, trade, or beg for food. This study uses observational, anthropometric, dietary, and ethnographic data to understand preliminarily the nutritive and possible social contexts of autonomous middle childhood food-gaining behaviors in Mexican shantytowns. While we find children forage, work for, and share considerable amounts of food outside the household, this is not associated with significant variation in their anthropometric status or dietary quality; some possible social benefits of food-getting are, however, evident.
AB - Children's independent food-acquisition behaviors have been rarely studied outside of hunter-gatherer contexts, yet millions of children worldwide search, work, trade, or beg for food. This study uses observational, anthropometric, dietary, and ethnographic data to understand preliminarily the nutritive and possible social contexts of autonomous middle childhood food-gaining behaviors in Mexican shantytowns. While we find children forage, work for, and share considerable amounts of food outside the household, this is not associated with significant variation in their anthropometric status or dietary quality; some possible social benefits of food-getting are, however, evident.
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U2 - 10.1080/03670240903308232
DO - 10.1080/03670240903308232
M3 - Article
C2 - 21883052
SN - 0367-0244
VL - 48
SP - 435
EP - 456
JO - Ecology of food and nutrition
JF - Ecology of food and nutrition
IS - 6
ER -