Nancy J Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 103001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy J Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | POLLOCK N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-7661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Childhood Abuse Prevalence in Canada
Reliable estimates of childhood abuse (CA) prevalence are essential for informing resource allocation and prevention strategies. While previous research has provided valuable insights, inconsistencies in definitions and data collection methods have hindered a clear understanding of prevalence patterns. Recent changes in Canadian surveys enable comparisons of self-reported CA data, offering insight into prevalence over time and across survey conte…
Suicidality and protective factors among sexual and gender minority youth and adults in Canada
Sexual and gender minority populations had a higher prevalence of suicidality and less social support and health care access compared to the heterosexual and cisgender populations. The pandemic was associated with increased suicidal ideation and limited access to care for these groups. Public health interventions that target modifiable protective factors may help decrease suicidality and reduce health disparities
Liquid Bread
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…
Suicide in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The suicide rate in Newfoundland and Labrador increased steadily between 1981 and 2018, which was in contrast to the national rate decline. The disparity between the provincial and national suicide rates and the variations by sex and age underscore the need for a public health approach to prevention that accounts for geographic and demographic differences in the epidemiology of suicide
We're people of the snow
Rapid environmental change due to climate change impacts Inuit mental wellness by altering the relationships between people, place, livelihoods, and culture. Little is known, however, about how fluctuations in weather contribute to the experience of place and the connection to mental wellness in Inuit communities. This study aimed to characterize the importance of changes in weather among Inuit, and how these changes influence mental health and w…
Place, the Built Environment, and Means Restriction in Suicide Prevention
Restricting access to lethal means is a key public health intervention for preventing suicide. Means restriction research has often focused on suicide methods that are modifiable through legislation or policy interventions. However, some of the most common methods such as hanging may not be sensitive to regulation. The aims of this paper are to examine built environment and place-based approaches to means restriction in suicide prevention, and fu…
Compte rendu de Nourritures, abondance et identité. Une socio-anthropologie de l’alimentation à Tahiti par Christophe Serra Mallol
Quand vous tes Cairns et que vous entendez le mot "Redfern", vous pensez "grabuge". (Elliott, 2012)
Tracking progress in suicide prevention in Indigenous communities
Indigenous peoples in Canada experience disproportionate rates of suicide compared to non-Indigenous populations. Indigenous communities and organizations have designed local and regional approaches to prevention, and the federal government has developed a national suicide prevention framework. However, public health systems continue to face challenges in monitoring the population burden of suicide and suicidal behaviour. National health data sys…
Reconciling community-based Indigenous research and academic practices
Compte rendu de Dumont d’Urville. Explorer and Polymath, de Edward Duyker
Dumont D'Urville's passion for circumnavigating the world in the 1820s and 1830s is clearly conveyed in Duyker's biography. D'Urville's three trans-Pacific voyages, first in La Coquille (1822-25), the second and third in the same ship but renamed L'Astrolabe (1826-27, and 1837-41) were voluminously recorded by his hand, both during long spells at sea, and when back home in Toulon and Paris. He published many volumes on his circumnavigations, all …
Backcountry Travel Emergencies in Arctic Canada
Residents in the Canadian Arctic regularly travel in remote, backcountry areas. This can pose risks for injuries and death, and create challenges for emergency responders and health systems. We aimed to describe the extent and characteristics of media-reported backcountry travel emergencies in two Northern Canadian territories (Nunavut and Northwest Territories). A case-series of all known incidents between 2004 and 2013 was established by identi…
Suicide Rates in Aboriginal Communities in Labrador, Canada
Objectives. To compare suicide rates in Aboriginal communities in Labrador, including Innu, Inuit, and Southern Inuit, with the general population of Newfoundland, Canada. Methods. In partnership with Aboriginal governments, we conducted a population-based study to understand patterns of suicide mortality in Labrador. We analyzed suicide mortality data from 1993 to 2009 from the Vital Statistics Death Database. We combined this with community-bas…
Nauru Phosphate History and the Resource Curse Narrative
Nauruans’ experiences of a resource curse from mining phosphate stands, as a case study of retarded development. Nauru was much adulated in the press in the early xxth century as an example of a «small island» that became «wealthy» through mining. The high grade phosphate that covered four fifths of the island was considered by outsiders as a very lucrative resource that had to be mined, particularly as fertilizer to enhance the pastures of Austr…
Social Aspects of Obesity
This collection of essays examines obesity not as an objective medical or psychological problem, but as a subjective social and cultural phenomenon. The contributors take a cross-cultural perspective, examining both the negative casting of obesity in developed countries and the traditional view of obesity as a positive characteristic in subsistence societies which is threatened by the dominance of Western culture.
Food and Transnationalism
Nutrition and Anthropology
The work of nutritionists and anthropologists has gradually developed from the mutual support of participating academics and practitioners, as Christine Wilson's work clearly shows. Over the latter part of the twentieth century in the Pacific, current concerns regarding health, gender relations, and food security have drawn the experts into closer dialogue. When we look at the products of such attention, both theoretical and practical, we find th…
Food Rules
Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. Harriet Whitehead. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 330 pp
Gender and Institutions
1. Institutions, embodiment and sexual difference Moira Gatens Part I. Beyond the Male Breadwinner: Welfare, Housing and Household Labour: 2. Life-course and labour market transitions: an alternative model for welfare state design Deborah Mitchell 3. Reshaping housing policy and the benefits of urban/regional location: why gender matters Bettina Cass 4. Moving toward equality? Questions of change and equality in household work patterns Janeen Bax…
Island Technology
Social Aspects of Obesity
Beyond the Norms
The Power Of Kava In Futuna And Uvea/Wallis
L'analyse comparative entre Wallis et Futuna sur les titres, la ceremonie du kava et l'emploi du kava montre que le kava est une forte composante de l'ideologie de ces deux iles. Dans les deux cas, le complexe kava etait associe au maintien de la hierarchie, la racine etant le symbole du respect entre la population et les chefs. Les ceremonies liaient la communaute des vivants aux ancetres. La boisson representait la guerre et la paix, le conflit…
Small But Strong
Coca Chewing and Diet
The Abandoned Narcotic
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
Reconciling community-based Indigenous research and academic practices
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
We're people of the snow
Rapid environmental change due to climate change impacts Inuit mental wellness by altering the relationships between people, place, livelihoods, and culture. Little is known, however, about how fluctuations in weather contribute to the experience of place and the connection to mental wellness in Inuit communities. This study aimed to characterize the importance of changes in weather among Inuit, and how these changes influence mental health and w…
Nauru Phosphate History and the Resource Curse Narrative
Nauruans’ experiences of a resource curse from mining phosphate stands, as a case study of retarded development. Nauru was much adulated in the press in the early xxth century as an example of a «small island» that became «wealthy» through mining. The high grade phosphate that covered four fifths of the island was considered by outsiders as a very lucrative resource that had to be mined, particularly as fertilizer to enhance the pastures of Austr…
A Marxist Reappraisal of the Matriarchate [and Comments and Reply]
The question of the matriarchate remains unresolved nearly 120 years after its introduction by Bachofen. The idea has separate histories in idealist and materialist thought and in non-Marxist and Marxist science. The origin of the matriarchate-the claim that the maternal clan or descent in the female line was a general stage in culture history which preceded paternal descent and authority-lies in the idealist thinking of Bachofen and McLennan. Mo…
Suicide Rates in Aboriginal Communities in Labrador, Canada
Objectives. To compare suicide rates in Aboriginal communities in Labrador, including Innu, Inuit, and Southern Inuit, with the general population of Newfoundland, Canada. Methods. In partnership with Aboriginal governments, we conducted a population-based study to understand patterns of suicide mortality in Labrador. We analyzed suicide mortality data from 1993 to 2009 from the Vital Statistics Death Database. We combined this with community-bas…
Coca Chewing and Diet
Takapoto. La prospérité, retour aux îles
A temporary movement of Tuamotuan people back to their atoll of Takapoto was noted in 1975. This is seen as an example of reverse drift from the cities, as these people had been resident in Tahiti prior to their return, but with unemployment there and the economic possibilities of making copra and pearl shell money on their home atoll, life looked better on the atoll. A regular air service to and from Tahiti was an additional positive factor in t…
Social Aspects of Obesity
Food Classification in Three Pacific Societies
The concept of food in Fiji, Hawaii, and Tahiti contrasts markedly with that in parts of the western world. The most notable difference is that in Pacific societies the most general term for food is applied to the starchy component, particularly the root and tree starch foods such as and breadfruit. A second difference lies in the main components of a meal. In Fijian, Hawaiian, and Tahitian custom a meal consists of two parts, the starchy food an…
Breadfruit Fermentation Practices in Oceania
Reprenant les données éparses dans les récits des premiers voyageurs comme dans la littérature ethnographique, l'auteur présente une synthèse de nos connaissances sur les anciennes techniques de fermentation du fruit à pain dans le Pacifique. Quelques comparaisons sont également esquissées avec l'Asie du Sud-Est. Sans méconnaître les implications sociales de ces pratiques, l'auteur s'attache plutôt aux aspects diététiques et gastronomiques et sug…
Women and the Division of Labor
A major omission in Brown's discussion of women's contributions to subsistence activities being only possible if those activities are compatible with child care is Caribbean societies. Although characterized as women-centered, it will be demonstrated with material from rural Jamaica that the reliance on women's support is only a phase in the life cycle of the co-residential family. A male partner will be brought in to share and then carry the eco…
Doctor administrators in Wallis and Futuna
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply]
The synchronic, antievolutionary approach to kinship has made it impossible to grasp its nature and define it adequately. Understanding of the phenomenon is tobe found in the implications of Morgan's distinction between the classificatory and descriptive systems of kinship. These systems are based respectively on the tribal and family organizations, each giving rise to a different notion of kinship: one as recognition of common identity in a mate…
Small But Strong
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
Women and the Division of Labor
A major omission in Brown's discussion of women's contributions to subsistence activities being only possible if those activities are compatible with child care is Caribbean societies. Although characterized as women-centered, it will be demonstrated with material from rural Jamaica that the reliance on women's support is only a phase in the life cycle of the co-residential family. A male partner will be brought in to share and then carry the eco…
Breadfruit or rice dietary choice on a Micronesian atoll
Namu people ate one basic food per meal, sometimes supplemented by a little fish. Breadfruit and its derivative fermented paste, together with some pandanus were available locally, whereas, rice and flour products were bought with the proceeds from the sale of copra. The cook had to consider factors such as availability, manpower, cooking time, size and age structure of the household, and shipping schedules when a foodstuff was selected for a mea…
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply]
The synchronic, antievolutionary approach to kinship has made it impossible to grasp its nature and define it adequately. Understanding of the phenomenon is tobe found in the implications of Morgan's distinction between the classificatory and descriptive systems of kinship. These systems are based respectively on the tribal and family organizations, each giving rise to a different notion of kinship: one as recognition of common identity in a mate…
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
Takapoto. La prospérité, retour aux îles
A temporary movement of Tuamotuan people back to their atoll of Takapoto was noted in 1975. This is seen as an example of reverse drift from the cities, as these people had been resident in Tahiti prior to their return, but with unemployment there and the economic possibilities of making copra and pearl shell money on their home atoll, life looked better on the atoll. A regular air service to and from Tahiti was an additional positive factor in t…
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
A Marxist Reappraisal of the Matriarchate [and Comments and Reply]
The question of the matriarchate remains unresolved nearly 120 years after its introduction by Bachofen. The idea has separate histories in idealist and materialist thought and in non-Marxist and Marxist science. The origin of the matriarchate-the claim that the maternal clan or descent in the female line was a general stage in culture history which preceded paternal descent and authority-lies in the idealist thinking of Bachofen and McLennan. Mo…
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Breadfruit Fermentation Practices in Oceania
Reprenant les données éparses dans les récits des premiers voyageurs comme dans la littérature ethnographique, l'auteur présente une synthèse de nos connaissances sur les anciennes techniques de fermentation du fruit à pain dans le Pacifique. Quelques comparaisons sont également esquissées avec l'Asie du Sud-Est. Sans méconnaître les implications sociales de ces pratiques, l'auteur s'attache plutôt aux aspects diététiques et gastronomiques et sug…
The concept of food in a pacific society
Food is a broad term in English. It includes certain specific items and excludes others. When dealing with such a term for other societies, we may find different categories included. In Fiji, for example, food is used specifically for root and tree crop starches. Thus, a larger more inclusive term, such as “edibles” is suggested for the nearest concept in English to cover the Fijian concepts. The various categories of edibles in Fiji are discusse…
On Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers
Recent Easter Island Studies
Food Classification in Three Pacific Societies
The concept of food in Fiji, Hawaii, and Tahiti contrasts markedly with that in parts of the western world. The most notable difference is that in Pacific societies the most general term for food is applied to the starchy component, particularly the root and tree starch foods such as and breadfruit. A second difference lies in the main components of a meal. In Fijian, Hawaiian, and Tahitian custom a meal consists of two parts, the starchy food an…
Doctor administrators in Wallis and Futuna
The Abandoned Narcotic
Coca Chewing and Diet
Small But Strong
Beyond the Norms
The Power Of Kava In Futuna And Uvea/Wallis
L'analyse comparative entre Wallis et Futuna sur les titres, la ceremonie du kava et l'emploi du kava montre que le kava est une forte composante de l'ideologie de ces deux iles. Dans les deux cas, le complexe kava etait associe au maintien de la hierarchie, la racine etant le symbole du respect entre la population et les chefs. Les ceremonies liaient la communaute des vivants aux ancetres. La boisson representait la guerre et la paix, le conflit…
Island Technology
Social Aspects of Obesity
Gender and Institutions
1. Institutions, embodiment and sexual difference Moira Gatens Part I. Beyond the Male Breadwinner: Welfare, Housing and Household Labour: 2. Life-course and labour market transitions: an alternative model for welfare state design Deborah Mitchell 3. Reshaping housing policy and the benefits of urban/regional location: why gender matters Bettina Cass 4. Moving toward equality? Questions of change and equality in household work patterns Janeen Bax…
Food Rules
Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. Harriet Whitehead. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 330 pp
Nutrition and Anthropology
The work of nutritionists and anthropologists has gradually developed from the mutual support of participating academics and practitioners, as Christine Wilson's work clearly shows. Over the latter part of the twentieth century in the Pacific, current concerns regarding health, gender relations, and food security have drawn the experts into closer dialogue. When we look at the products of such attention, both theoretical and practical, we find th…
Food and Transnationalism
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