Social Aspects of Obesity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: De Garine, Igor; Pollock, Nancy J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134316212
• Artikelnr.: 39905271

Autorenporträt

Igor De Garine, Nancy J. Pollock

Inhaltsangabe

I: Cultural Fattening Processes
1: Food and Fatness in Calabria
2: Physique of Sumo Wrestlers in Relation to Some Cultural Characteristics of Japan
3: Sociocultural Aspects of the Male Fattening Sessions among the Massa of Northern Cameroon
4: Fertility and Fat: The Annang Fattening Room
5: Social Fattening Patterns in the Pacific¿the Positive Side of Obesity. A Nauru Case Study
6: Taste, Food Regimens and Fatness. A Study in Social Stratification
7: Vegetarianism and Fatness: An Undervalued Perception of the Body
II: Physical and Social Aspects
8: Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Human Obesity
9: Obesity and Physical Fitness: An Age-Dependent Functional and Social Handicap
10: Obesity and Overweight in Polish Men and Women: Social Determinants
11: Educational Attainment, Stress Hormones, Body Fat and Health: A Sociocultural Neuroendocrine Pathway?
III: Social Phenomena Associated with Obesity
12: Changing Food Consumption and Body Images among Malays
13: Polynesian Responses to Modernization: Overweight and Obesity in the South Pacific
14: Activity Level and Obesity among Samoans
15: Obesity and Fatness as seen by the Azande in Central Africa
16: Evaluation of Fatness in Traditional Japanese Society
17: Social Aspects of Obesity and Fatness: A Critique
18: Social Aspects of Obesity and Fatness: Conclusion