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Emily Yates-Doerr
Researcher at Oregon State University
Publications - 40
Citations - 756
Emily Yates-Doerr is an academic researcher from Oregon State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical anthropology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 34 publications receiving 574 citations. Previous affiliations of Emily Yates-Doerr include European Research Council & University of Amsterdam.
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The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala
TL;DR: Anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in postcolonial Latin America.
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Cuts of Meat: Disentangling Western Natures-Cultures
Emily Yates-Doerr,Annemarie Mol +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored Western animal/human relations by describing various ways of enacting'meat' and contrasted the investment in the tastiness of lambs in a Spanish butcher store with concern for meat contamination in FAO safety regulations.
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Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment
Anna Mann,Annemarie Mol,Priya Pramod Satalkar,Amalinda Savirani,Nasima Selim,Malini Sur,Emily Yates-Doerr +6 more
TL;DR: This paper reported an ethnographic experiment where four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands, drawing on the technique of playing with the famili...
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The weight of the self: care and compassion in Guatemalan dietary choices
TL;DR: It is argued that within the lived experiences of "nutrition-in-action," the self-body of the patient becomes broadly conceived to include the nutritionist, the family, and the broader community.
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The opacity of reduction: nutritional black-boxing and the meanings of nourishment
TL;DR: It is shown that despite its pretense of simplicity, the reductionism of nutritional black-boxing produces confusion, and dietary education not dependent upon simplified and fixed rules and standards may be more intelligible to people seeking nourishment in their lives.