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Metabolic living : food, fat, and the absorption of illness in India / Harris Solomon.
LIBRA RC628 .S656 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Harris, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Critical global health
- Critical global health : evidence, efficacy, ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity--India.
- Obesity.
- Lipids in human nutrition--India.
- Lipids in human nutrition.
- Food habits--India.
- Food habits.
- Malnutrition--India.
- Malnutrition.
- Convenience foods--India.
- Convenience foods.
- Metabolism.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adaption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metaboiismsare the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes poset a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic fitness in India and beyond. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Interlude : Birthday cakes
- The thin-fat Indian
- Interlude : Mango madness
- The taste no chef can give
- Interlude : The ration card
- Readying the home
- Interlude : Stamps
- Lines of therapy
- Interlude : Waiting room walls
- Gut attachments
- Conclusion : Metabolic Mumbai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822360872
- 082236087X
- 9780822361015
- 0822361019
- 0822374447
- 9780822374442
- OCLC:
- 912705967
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