In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced and a new set of analytical explorations about obesity research and the effectiveness of obesity interventions will be established.

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edited by Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin

McCullough, Megan B., Hardin, Jessica A.

Food, nutrition, and culture, First paperback edition, New York, 2015

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Berghahn Books, New York, 2013

1st pbk. ed, New York, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction: Re-Constructing Obesity
Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin
Part I: Naturalizing Measures and Universalizing Effects
Chapter 1. Resocializing Body Weight, Obesity and Health Agency
Anne E. Becker
Chapter 2. The Mismeasure of Obesity
Emily Yates-Doerr
Chapter 3. ‘Diabesity’ and the stigmatizing of lifestyle in Australia
Darlene McNaughton
Part II: Cross-Cultural Body Discourses and Unstable Categories
Chapter 4. Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today
Hanna Garth
Chapter 5. Fasting for Health, Fasting for God: Samoan Evangelical Christian Responses to Obesity and Chronic Disease
Jessica A. Hardin
Part III: Fat Etiologies and Conflicting Interventions
Chapter 6. Perspectives on Diabetes and Obesity from an Anthropologist in Behavioral Medicine
Rochelle Rosen
Chapter 7. Body Image and Weight Concerns among Emirati Women in the United Arab Emirates
Sarah Trainer
Chapter 8. ‘Not Neutral Ground’: Exploring School as a Site for Childhood Obesity Intervention and Prevention Programs
Tracey Galloway and Tina Moffat
Part IV: Cultures of Practice
Chapter 9. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Ton of Controversy: Exploring Tensions in the Fields of Obesity and Eating Disorder Prevention
Lisa R. Rubin and Jessica A. Joseph
Chapter 10. Fat and Knocked-Up: An Embodied Analysis of Stigma, Visibility, and Invisibility in the Biomedical Management of an Obese Pregnancy
Megan B. McCullough
Afterword
Stephen McGarvey
Index

Contents 7
Illustrations 9
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction—Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings 11
Part I—Global Health, Naturalizing Measures, and Universalizing Effects 35
Chapter 1—Resocializing Body Weight, Obesity, and Health Agency 37
Chapter 2—The Mismeasure of Obesity 59
Chapter 3—"Diabesity" and the Stigmatizing of Lifestyle in Australia 81
Part II—Large Embodiment and Histories of Fat 97
Chapter 4—Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today 99
Chapter 5—Fasting for Health, Fasting for God: Samoan Evangelical Christian Responses to Obesity and Chronic Disease 117
Part III—Cultures of Practice and Conflicting Interventions 139
Chapter 6—Perspectives on Diabetes and Obesity from an Anthropologist in Behavioral Medicine: Lessons Learned from the "Diabetes Care in American Samoa" Project 141
Chapter 7—Body Image and Weight Concerns among Emirati Women in the United Arab Emirates 157
Chapter 8—"Not Neutral Ground": Exploring School as a Site for Childhood Obesity Intervention and Prevention Programs 179
Part IV—Fat Etiologies, Stigma, and Gaps of Care in Biodmedical Models of Obesity 207
Chapter 9— An Ounce of Prevention, a Ton of Controversy: Exploring Tensions in the Fields of Obesity and Eating Disorder Prevention 209
Chapter 10—Fat and Knocked-Up: An Embodied Analysis of Stigma, Visibility, and Invisbility in the Biomedical Management of an Obese Pregnancy 225
Afterword 245
Contributors 248
Index 252

This volume draws on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural difference, embodiment, and local knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and understood that a new discussion will be introduced...

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