Research Catalog

Title

Social aspects of obesity / edited by Igor de Garine and Nancy J. Pollock.

Publication

Australia : Gordon and Breach Publishers, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Garine, I. de
• Pollock, Nancy J., 1934-

Description

xxxiii, 314 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Culture and ecology of food and nutrition ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Culture and ecology of food and nutrition ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Nutrition > Social aspects
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Obesity > Social aspects
• Nutritional anthropology
• Feeding Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Food and Fatness in Calabria / Vito Teti -- 2. Physique of Sumo Wrestlers in Relation to Some Cultural Characteristics of Japan / Komei Hattori -- 3. Sociocultural Aspects of the Male Fattening Sessions Among the Massa of Northern Cameroon / Igor de Garine -- 4. Fertility and Fat: The Annang Fattening Room / Pamela J. Brink -- 5. Social Fattening Patterns in the Pacific: The Positive Side of Obesity - A Nauru Case Study / Nancy J. Pollock -- 6. Taste, Food Regimens and Fatness: A Study in Social Stratification / Anneke H. van Otterloo -- 7. Vegetarianism and Fatness: An Undervalued Perception of the Body / Laurence Ossipow -- 8. Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Human Obesity / Nevin S. Scrimshaw and William H. Dietz -- 9. Obesity and Physical Fitness: An Age-Dependent Functional and Social Handicap / Jana Parizkova -- 10. Obesity and Overweight in Polish Men and Women: Social Determinants / Jadwiga Charzewska --
• 11. Educational Attainment, Stress Hormones, Body Fat and Health: A Sociocultural Neuroendocrine Pathway? / Donna L. Leonetti, Wilfred Y. Fujimoto, Patricia W. Wahl, Geoffrey A. Harrison and David A. Jenner -- 12. Changing Food Consumption and Body Images Among Malays / Christine S. Wilson -- 13. Polynesian Responses to Modernization: Overweight and Obesity in the South Pacific / James R. Bindon -- 14. Activity Level and Obesity Among Samoans / Lawrence P. Greksa -- 15. Obesity and Fatness as Seen by the Azande in Central Africa / Armin Prinz -- 16. Evaluation of Fatness in Traditional Japanese Society / Naomichi Ishige -- Social Aspects of Obesity: A Critique / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- Social Aspects of Obesity: Conclusion / Carole M. Counihan.

ISBN

• 2884491864
• 2884491856

OCLC

• ocm33934909
• SCSB-4779148

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries