Fat : The Anthropology of an Obsession Paperback - 2005
by Meneley, Anne, Kulick, Don
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More complex than love handles and less easily understood than numbers on a scale, "Fat" proves that fat can be beautiful, evil, pornographic, delicious, shameful, ugly, or magical. Photos.
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- Title Fat : The Anthropology of an Obsession
- Author Meneley, Anne, Kulick, Don
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date January 13, 2005
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP21430308
- ISBN 9781585423866 / 1585423866
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.5 x 0.66 in (21.03 x 13.97 x 1.68 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Medical anthropology, Obesity - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004055366
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.398
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Summary
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 uni-versally 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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Citations
- Discover, 05/01/2005, Page 80
- Ingram Advance, 01/01/2005, Page 113
- Publishers Weekly, 11/22/2004, Page 47
