Reconstructing obesity : the meaning of measures and the measure of meanings / edited by Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCullough, Megan B.

Hardin, Jessica A.

Series:

Food, Nutrition, and Culture

Food, Nutrition, and Culture ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Cross-cultural studies.

Obesity.

Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.

Food habits.

Food preferences--Cross-cultural studies.

Food preferences.

Body image--Cross-cultural studies.

Body image.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced and a new set of a

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction-Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings; Part I-Global Health, Naturalizing Measures, and Universalizing Effects; Chapter 1-Resocializing Body Weight, Obesity, and Health Agency; Chapter 2-The Mismeasure of Obesity; Chapter 3-""Diabesity"" and the Stigmatizing of Lifestyle in Australia; Part II-Large Embodiment and Histories of Fat; Chapter 4-Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today

Chapter 5-Fasting for Health, Fasting for God: Samoan Evangelical Christian Responses to Obesity and Chronic DiseasePart III-Cultures of Practice and Conflicting Interventions; Chapter 6-Perspectives on Diabetes and Obesity from an Anthropologist in Behavioral Medicine: Lessons Learned from the ""Diabetes Care in American Samoa"" Project; Chapter 7-Body Image and Weight Concerns among Emirati Women in the United Arab Emirates; Chapter 8-""Not Neutral Ground"": Exploring School as a Site for Childhood Obesity Intervention and Prevention Programs

Part IV-Fat Etiologies, Stigma, and Gaps of Care in Biodmedical Models of ObesityChapter 9- An Ounce of Prevention, a Ton of Controversy: Exploring Tensions in the Fields of Obesity and Eating Disorder Prevention; Chapter 10-Fat and Knocked-Up: An Embodied Analysis of Stigma, Visibility, and Invisibility in the Biomedical Management of an Obese Pregnancy; Afterword; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 21, 2013).

ISBN:

1-80758-462-3

1-78533-028-4

1-78238-142-2

OCLC:

859837495