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Fat : the anthropology of an obsession / edited by Don Kulick and Anne Meneley.
- Title
- Fat : the anthropology of an obsession / edited by Don Kulick and Anne Meneley.
- Publication
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2005.
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- Description
- 246 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Enlisting thirteen anthropologists and one fat activist, editors and anthropologists Don Kulick and Anne Meneley have produced an unconventional and unprecedented examination of fat as a concept, a substance, and a lifestyle. Edgy and non-judgmental, Fat steers the conversation away from the heavily trodden ground of health, cosmetic concerns, and cheap jokes, and moves it in a completely different direction, dissecting familiar institutions like Starbucks, Spam, pornography, medicine, religion, high school, and more - as well as providing glimpses into less familiar cultures where fat is venerated, and even considered something to cherish and protect."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-236).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Don Kulick and Anne Meneley -- Ideal / Rebecca Popenoe -- Oil / Anne Meneley -- White / Mary Weismantel -- Phat / Joan Gross -- Porn / Don Kulick -- Heavenly / Lena Gemzoe -- Talk / Fanny Ambjornsson -- Leaky / Don Kulick and Tais Machado-Borges -- Lard / Jillian R. Cavanaugh -- Indulgence / Margaret Willson -- Chaos / Mark Graham -- Spam / Julia Harrison -- Chasers / Matti Bunzl -- Pissed off / Allyson Mitchell.
- ISBN
- 1585423866 (alk. paper)
- 9781585423866
- LCCN
- 2004055366^^
- OCLC
- 56103820
- SCSB-12301094
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library