Sharing is a fundamental consumer behavior that we have either tended to overlook or to
confuse with commodity exchange and gift giving. Sharing is a distinct, ancient, and …

Scholarly interest in body size has increased in concert with recent efforts to shape and
assess bodies in particular ways within industrialized social contexts. Attending to both overt …

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking
about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This …

Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to
food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field …

While slim-body ideals have spread globally in the last several decades, we know
comparatively little of any concurrent proliferation of fat-stigmatizing beliefs. Using cultural …

When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being
born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula …

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range
of phenomenon--aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty …

In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and
artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid …

In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health
and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to …

This article aims to claim 'body size'as an increasingly important axis of signification. It draws
on research from various disciplines to present an exploratory overview of the different ways …