The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation

Autor/inn/en	Weaver, Lesley Jo; Henderson, Nicole; Hadley, Craig
Titel	The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation
Quelle	In: Field Methods, 33 (2021) 4, S.372-387 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-822X
DOI	10.1177/1525822X21992162
Schlagwörter	Food; Dietetics; Hunger; Consumer Economics; Sharing Behavior; Coping; Poverty; Sociocultural Patterns; Females; Heads of Households; Community Attitudes; Rural Areas; Geographic Isolation; Foreign Countries; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Ernährungslehre; Konsumökonomie; Bewältigung; Armut; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Brasilien
Abstract	Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01