Rebecca Popenoe

Feeding Desire (eBook, ePUB)

Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While in the West it is said that women can never be too thin, semi-nomadic Arabs in Niger cherish a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Feeding Desire analyses this beauty ideal in the context of Islam, conceptions of health, and notions of desire

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135140854
• Artikelnr.: 38248356

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Popenoe is Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Uppsala University in Sweden. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Virginia and Middlebury College in the U.S. as well as at Stockholm and Linköping Universities in Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Entering the Field Chapter 1 Coming into the Azawagh Chapter 2 Getting Fat Part 2 Self-Representations Chapter 3 In the Name of Allah
Most Benevolent
Ever Merciful Chapter 4 Ties of Blood
Ties of Milk
Ties of Marriage Chapter 5 "The Men Bring Us What We Will Eat" Part 3 Veiled Logics Chapter 6 The Interior Spaces of Social Life: Bodies of Men
Bodies of Women Chapter 7 The Exterior Spaces of Social Life: Desert
Village
Tent Part 4 Negotiating Life's Challenges Chapter 8 Well-being and Illness Chapter 9 Beauty
Sex and Desire