Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji (New Cultural Studies)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0812213971
ISBN 13
9780812213973
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
224
Description
Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own. - from Amzon
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