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Fat : the anthropology of an obsession
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New York :Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,2005
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246 s.
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-85067
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ISBN:1585423866
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-85067URI
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Språk:engelska
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Sammanfattning på:engelska
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An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world. With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as universally damned-as one might think. Enlisting thirteen anthropologists and a fat activist, editors and anthropologists Don Kulick and Anne Meneley have produced an unconventional-and unprecedented-examination of fat in various cultural and social contexts. In this anthology, these writers argue that fat is neither a mere physical state nor an inert concept. Instead, it is a construct built by culture and judged in courts of public opinion, courts whose laws vary from society to society.From the anthropology of "fat-talk" among teenage girls in Sweden to the veneration of Spam in Hawaii; from fear of the fat-sucking pishtaco vampire in the Andes to the underground allure of fat porn stars like Supersize Betsy-this anthology provides fresh perspectives on a subject more complex than love handles, and less easily understood than a number on a scale. Fat proves that fat can be beautiful, evil, pornographic, delicious, shameful, ugly, or magical. It all depends on who-and where-you are.
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Kulick, DonStockholms universitet,Socialantropologiska institutionen
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Meneley, Anne
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Stockholms universitetSocialantropologiska institutionen
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