Preliminary Ethnographic Analysis of Infant Complementary Foods in a Peruvian Quechua Community.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q4 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Ecology of Food and Nutrition Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1080/03670244.2025.2462934

Amanda Veile, Rocio Chávez Cabello, Yu Chung, Sophie Mbongo, Violeta Rojas Bravos

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Abstract

This study examines infant feeding beliefs and practices in a rural Peruvian Quechua community. The aim was to assess which infant foods are considered culturally meaningful, and if concordance exists between beliefs and practices. Mothers were asked to free-list their child's "actual" first foods (n = 85), then to free-list "ideal" infant foods (n = 87). Food lists were analyzed for cultural salience. Mothers listed 43 foods; four (potato, mazamorra, egg, and liver) were culturally salient on both lists. Some discordance was found between beliefs and practices. Culturally salient "ideal" foods were animal-source and protein-iron rich, whereas salient "actual" foods were plant-source and carbohydrate-based.

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秘鲁克丘亚社区婴儿辅食的初步民族志分析。

本研究考察了秘鲁农村克丘亚社区的婴儿喂养信仰和做法。其目的是评估哪些婴儿食品被认为具有文化意义，以及信仰和实践之间是否存在一致性。母亲们被要求免费列出孩子的“实际”第一种食物（n = 85），然后免费列出“理想”婴儿食物（n = 87）。对食物清单进行文化显著性分析。母亲们列出了43种食物；四个（土豆、马萨莫拉、鸡蛋和肝脏）在两份名单上都是文化上突出的。在信仰和实践之间发现了一些不一致。文化上突出的“理想”食物是动物来源和富含蛋白质铁，而突出的“实际”食物是植物来源和碳水化合物为基础的。

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Ecology of Food and Nutrition 医学-营养学

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3.50

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.