Journal
ECOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 341-364Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2016.1181064
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Adolescents; food; globalization; India; prestige
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development [3D43HD065249-03S1]
- Emory University Global Health Institute
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This study provides a foundation for understanding how globalization and changing food environments are linked to cultural models of food prestige in adolescents. We used methods from cognitive anthropology, including free lists, pile sorts, and consensus modeling, to explore the meanings that Indian adolescents attribute to foods. Adolescents (n=29) were asked to free list foods eaten outside and inside the home. Different adolescents (n=65) were asked to pile sort and rank 30 foods identified during the free lists according to which foods are the most prestigious, traditional, routine, and advertised on television. We found that adolescents overwhelmingly believed nontraditional foods to be the most prestigious. Nonlocal foods, both from foreign countries and other regions of India, as well as foods eaten outside the home, were also considered prestigious.
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