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Aguaruna Indigenous People live along the Rio Cenepa in the Peruvian Amazon. This thesis describes the Aguaruna traditional food system (TFS) and defines its nutritional importance. Nutritional status of women and young children were assessed using anthropometry. Dietary intakes and dietary diversity were recorded using repeat 24 hour recalls. Subsequently, the relative nutrient contributions of local foods were analyzed. A market survey was conducted to compare the nutrient value and relative cost of seasonal local foods with imported products. Anthropometry suggested a healthy population, although the Agauruna had short stature. They purchased <1 % of their food, and group dietary assessments estimated adequate intakes of energy, protein, fat, iron, zinc, vitamin C and vitamin A. Higher traditional food diversity was associated with greater macronutrient, vitamin and mineral intakes (Spearman's rho = 0.29 to r = 0.60). The Aguaruna TFS provides excellent nutrition and should be promoted and protected.

This thesis explores everyday practices of Peruvian women at the soup kitchen, a self-help organization that feeds poor families. Every day, women put their culinary knowledge into practice and provide people with good tasting food in spite of limited material resources. In addition, these women share experiences and advice, affirm their authority towards male beneficiaries, and resist to the governmental control exercised through a national food aid program. I will argue that through these everyday practices and social interactions, women express forms of resistance. Concurrently, they are able to contest gender, socio-economic and political domination, and construct an identity of proud, active women. This complex and intimate look at the experiences of women at the soup kitchen will be based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Villa Maria del Triunfo, a district on the outskirts of Lima composed largely of migrants who came in town in hopes to construct a better life.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1974. / Bibliography: leaves 322-332. / xvii, 332 leaves ill. (some col.), maps

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [128]-137).

Thesis--Cornell University. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 264-276.

Thesis (M.S. in civil engineering)--Washington State University, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 6, 2005). Pages 1-5 appear in duplicate. Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-168).

Thesis (doctoral)--Cornell University. / "August 1974." Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-381).

Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford,???? / Supervisor: Professor Marcel Fafchamps. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--North Carolina State University, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [165]-169).