Social Aspects of Obesity
Routledge (Verlag)
978-2-88449-185-3 (ISBN)
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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.
Part 1: Cultural fattening processes: Physique of Sumo Wrestlers in Relation to Some Cultural Characteristics of Japan; Fertility and Fat - The Among Fattening Room; Social Fattening Patterns in the Pacific - The Positive Side of Obesity; A Nauru Case Study; Taste, Food Regimes and Fatness - A Study in Social Stratification; Vegetarianism and Fatness - An Undervalued Perception of the Body. Part 2: Physical and social aspects: Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Human Obesity; Obesity and Physical Fitness -an Age-Dependent Functional and Social Handicap; Educational Attainment, Stress Hormones, Body Fat and Health - A Sociocultural Neuroendocrine Pathway? Part 3: Social phenomenon associated with obesity: Changing Food Consumption and Body Image Among Malays; Polynesian Responses to Modernization - Overweight and Obesity in the South Pacific; Activity Level and Obesity Among Samoans; Evaluation of Fatness in Traditional Japanese Society.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.10.1995 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 2-88449-185-6 / 2884491856 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-2-88449-185-3 / 9782884491853 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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