id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt hx11xd10w95 Kayla J. Hurd Beyond Nourishment: A Biocultural Analysis of Meaning Making, Dietary Practices, and Insect Eating in the Times of COVID-19 2023 .txt text/plain 262 7 19 As a whole, this dissertation brings together a comprehensive, integrative investigation of nutritional habits to operationalize what it means to go beyond nourishment—viewing food not just as something to eat, but as a bridge between lived realities and local biologies assisting people in making sense of the world around them, especially amidst unprecedented change. This research provides a grounded ethnographic and biocultural example of how people protect their bodies via their thoughts, perceptions, and behavior regarding food in order to make sense of the changing sociocultural world around them. cache/hx11xd10w95.txt txt/hx11xd10w95.txt