TY  - GEN
T1  - Body, self, and society : the view from Fiji
T2  - New cultural studies.
A1  - Becker, Anne E.
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44960083
AB  - 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.
OP  - 206
CN  - GN671.F5 B43 1995eb
SN  - 0585126461
SN  - 9780585126463
SN  - 9780812290240
SN  - 0812290240
SN  - 0812231805
SN  - 9780812231809
SN  - 0812213971
SN  - 9780812213973
KW  - Ethnology : Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)
KW  - Ethnopsychology : Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)
KW  - Identity (Psychology) : Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)
KW  - Body image : Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)
KW  - Human body : Social aspects : Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)ts.
KW  - Singatoka (Western Division, Fiji) : Social life and customs.
KW  - Ethnology.
KW  - Anthropology, Cultural
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Ethnopsychology
KW  - Body Image
KW  - Feeding and Eating Disorders : epidemiology
KW  - Fiji
KW  - Ethnologie.
KW  - ethnology.
KW  - social anthropology.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : General.
KW  - Body image
KW  - Human body : Social aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Fiji : Singatoka (Western Division)
ER  -